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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 487

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 487
re woven on the hand-looms of Hamah;the brass water-vessel and the inlaid frame ofhis hand-mirror come from the bazaars of Damas-cus ; but the razors are doubtless of Englishmake. The demure victim in the picture is re-ceiving a fashionable shampoo, and, as usual, hehelps the barber by holding the… … THE BARBER SHAMPOOING A CUSTOMER. the methods and machines are very simple.Everything is hand-made. The rich rugs whosecombinations of color and whose silky sheen i89i.J BUSY CORNERS IN THE ORIENT. 475 are so much prized in our American homesare all made laboriously by hand in the vil-lages of…

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