Barbers' Manual (Part 1); Text Book on Taxidermy (Part 2)

Transcriber's Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
T. J. McConnaughay.
By T. J. McConnaughay
PRICE, $1.25
Copyrighted and all rights reserved by author.
Chicago, Ill., 1898.
By way of explaining the dual character of this little book, we here indulge a few brief introductory remarks.
Part First is designed simply as a manual of instruction for barbers, and we hope it will, in a valuable measure, supply a long felt need. It will prove especially beneficial to the younger and less experienced members of our craft.
The best artisans and artists admit they owe much to the accumulated knowledge and experience of both their predecessors and their contemporaries. Indeed, to assert any claim to advanced knowledge and skill, without due acknowledgements for the help received from others would savor of an inexcusable egotism. The man who professes to be a self-made man is always notorious for worshiping his maker.
We should, of course, always put our own impress upon all our work. Our observations on the methods of others should supplement but not supplant our own originality and our own reason. A noted artist when asked how he mixed his paints to achieve such wonderful results, replied: “I mix them with brains.”
So must we use our own brains as well as the brains of others, if we would succeed in this day of rapid improvements and sharp competition.