SHAVING ON THE HIGHWAY.
The Indian has a habit of doing natural things simply. It is possible that some confusion would befall the traffic in Trafalgar Square, London, if business men on their way to the city each morning stopped at the fountain for a shave, writes the correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, at New Delhi. That happens in one of the main streets of Delhi every day, when the itinerant barber prevails uponjihis clients to seat themselves on the edge of the fountain for such a purpose. The Indian has no objection to being shampooed in public, and he even seams to take a certain pride in having his hair cut on the pavement. At most places where there is running water, the transient barber may be seen plying his trade. What matter if the pellucid waters of the fountain are presently bearing cargoes of soapsuds so long as this naive expression of Indian personality is not lost?
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LII, Issue 32, 21 April 1931, Page 5
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