Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 18 April 1896, Page 2

Notes and Events.

_ Barbers. Most necessary of men, but how maligned. What fan it is considered to accuse them of a constant flow of talk. How many jokes are retailed of the rude rebuffs of those who hate to hear anyone apeak but themselves. These people had better go to Turkey for there the Barbers perform their work in absolute silence. Pause, and take this solemn fact in — in absolute silence. How glorious. He summons his subject by a sign — perhaps an elevated hand and a crooked finger. He says nothing, and it is de riguer for the ' shaved ' to be silent also, When- the operation is concluded he rises, drops his coin into the brass bowl and then sinks onto the divan. This is a bright picture and it is a pity to dim it, but it is written there are other barbers besides the swell saloon barbers, men who wait in the hotel to attend upon you in your apartment, men who accost you as you walk the streets and so on. The smartest barber is one who steals up to your couch at dawn and with such skill and dexterity does he conduct his dangerous weapons about your chin and brow, gently turning your head from side to side, that you only realise he has been in your presence when waking an hour later you study your visage in the glass.