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 is a bleeding, crudely performed at the back of the neck. The stolid indifference with which the victim undergoes his sufferings bespeaks a martyr's spirit, nor does his suffering friend who is waiting for the barber to say "next" evince any sympathy for him.

BARBAROUS BARBERS

TRYING TO PLAY

Turning from this unpleasant spectacle we are confronted by two gentlemen in gorgeous array, who beg us in broken French to take a stroll with them in the suburbs. We accept the invitation and presently find ourselves "in the suburbs." The object of our companions in enticing us to a decidedly vacant lot is not robbery but a desire to be photographed. They confess that they have never had their pictures taken. They had just arrayed themselves in their best clothes in the hope of tempting us to photograph them. This remote spot has been selected to avoid the undesirable notoriety that would result should their more orthodox Moslem fellow-citizens witness the sinful picture-making, and report this breach of the command, "Thou shalt not make to thyself the likeness of any living thing," a command obeyed to the letter by the