THE BOY WHOSE MOTHER CUTS HIS HAIR.

Evening Star, Issue 3498, 9 May 1874, Page 3

THE BOY WHOSE MOTHER CUTS HIS HAIR.

The following is one of those vivid descriptive sketches for which the editor of the ‘ Danbury News ’ is noted : You can always tell a- boy whose mother cuts his hair. Not because the edges of it look as if it.had been/ chewed of} by an absent-minded horse, i but you may tell it by the way he stops in the street and wriggles his shoulders. When a fond mother has to cut her boy’s hair, she is careful to guard against any annoyance, and begins by laying a sheet on the carpet. It has never occurred to her to set him over a bare floor and put the sheet around his neck. Then she draws the front hair over his eyes, and leaves it there while she cuts that which is at the back. The hair which lies over his eyes appears to be surcharged with electric needles, and that which is silently dropping down under his shirtband appears to be on file. She has unconsciously continued to push his head forward until his nose pi esses his breast, and is- too busily engaged to notice the snufilingsoundthat is becoming alarmingly frequent. In the meantime he is seized with an irresistible desire to blow his nose, but recollects that bis handkerchief is in the other room. Then a fly lights on his nose, and dpes it so pnexpectedly that he involuntarily dodges, and catches the point of the shears in the left ear. At this he commences to cry, and wishes he was a man. But his mother doesn’t notice him, She merely hits him on the other ear to'inspire him with confidence, and goes on with the work. When she is through she holds his jacket-collar back from his neck, and with her mouth blows the short bits of hair fiom the top of his head down his back. He calls her attention to this fa,ct, but she looks for a new place on his head and hits him there, and asks him why he don’t use his handkerchief. Then he takes his .awfully disfigured head to the mirror and looks at it, and, young as he is, shudders as. he thinks what the boys in the street will say.