A DELIGHTFUL SENSATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 4 March 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

A DELIGHTFUL SENSATION.

At New York, n young woman shaved jme in a barber's shop of a hotel not far from the depdt. Stepping into the room, allured thereto by the striped pole protruding from the doorway, I saw a black-eyed damsel, as she seemed, of a dark skin, either a well-tanned white woman or possibly an all but white quadroon. _ | The barber/hardly turned his eyes to me, with any compliment or courtesy, as if she still appreciated the novelty of her vocation and tho surprise of a yonng man never before, encountered by a female hair-cutter 1 . In a sort of bashful way Bhe glanced towards a chair, which I took while watching hei as Bhe shaved as expertly as old-Time nims slf. When my turn came, she gave a half ;glaice out of those smouldering orbs, saying nothi lg, I climbed into the chair, and the flutte 'ed flatterer covered me with soft soap, :nd drew the blade most manfully across a strap fastened to the wall, . I could_now| understand the significance of the song: "Och hoke, widow Machree I" Such nerve I have never, seen since in my country days our kitchen girl beheaded the chickens, She drew that razor to and fro with the skill of an execution p knife, She was apparently twenty-five years old, slight yet willowy, ;' f "This is the first time I was ever ibayed

by a lady," said I, It scorns to me that a hardly audible laugh was over-hanging me, and instead of answer: ing, she took me by the tip of the nose v?ry gently, and with skilled, steely fingers drew the razor down my jaws The contact made me immediately resolve to be shaved no more by man if thero was a woman available, Like a miniature reaping machine, driven through the buck-wheat by a gypsy fairy, the razor ! cameonward toward the corners of my mouth, circumnavigated the chin, descended into the pucker thereof, and went up the other .Bide 1 of the face with the confidence and cleanliness of machinery, Then my,chin was elevated,, so I could not see the charming motive power; in the glass, and she stuck a milk-white napkin in my throat, and put her thumb and finger around my Adam's apple. Immediately; it became apparent how Eve robbed t(iat celebratedtreq. '•. . -,j 1.... / " Don't tickle, young woman," said I, !in>, voluntarily. | ■ , V Did I tickle, Bir?" ' '<\'\ |\

"Yes, the general sensation is ticklish-.. How came you to bo shaving?' |... "My husband was a barber, and he taught;

"Is it hard work, shaving?" ' :.' . "No. I think very natural work for .a woman. Some men don't like a woman to shave them, but" I hardly ever lose ac'us-, tomer." ■ i. ' . v ' ' : . ,•' . I."'

She stir red up the electricity hidden in my < hair, breathed once or twice upon my temples, i touched me with her own powder box, and charged only sixpence for her societyandi toilet. As 1 turned the corner, my late acquaintances • came upon me suddenly, and, started and said; "My, but you look fierce,"