The Barber Shop For Chinese Women ce more the feminine these demands attention.
I men jour thie feminine In Shanghai, where we are now secustomed to look with out surprise upon modern China, the sleek—Eton-cropped heads' of Chinese young women has called forth many syllables of hon-st praise. But behind many of jose sleek coiffures, adhering to the Intest code of elimination, lies 'a story. For all her acceptance of western swank" Miss China still has her inhibitions. One of these, we have it on good authority, is her objection to entering a man' Yarber shop and to waiting her turn to receive that encircling white over-all out of which her black' head emerges up-right and neat.
Tt was the registering of this objection among a certain group of Chinese women in Shanghai which planted the seed for the new "Blue. Triangle" barber shop, situated at} 168: Scechuen Road, and catering to Chinese Indies only: Tt was opened on Saturday last, and immediately it threw ts door open to give glimpses of the smart interior, cus tomers began to arrive, Among these were four who came to have their hair cut off for the first tim long black braids which lay "like shining illustrations of new ideas new conceptions of chic and beauty and new freedom upon the beauty-parlour table where they were re-steled with the inevitable wistful-jess characteristic of such moments.
The Barber Shop is a pretty little spot, just big enough to hold its equipment of two barber's chairs of a special pattern, its dressing tables and mirrors and several other necessary bioses of the green enamel and black furniture which makes the place so attractive. Daffodil yellow hangings add to the colour scheme, time It is the hope' of the! 'Y.W.C.A. group which has started
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