our Sisters

aron Von Lodge was the head of a small country known as Lilliland near Switzerland. The time was the early 1900s.

One afternoon the Baron’s fiancée, Lady Angela of Alpine Castle, was telling the Baron about four sisters who lived in Lilliland. The sisters were Penny, Prudence, Peggy, and Penelope. They all inherited some money and wanted to go into business together. They wanted to open a barbershop.

Penny, Prudence, Peggy and Penelope all enrolled in a French barber academy to learn the skills needed for cutting a man’s hair. When they all graduated they set up a shop in a busy section of the central marketplace called The Four Sisters Barbershop.

Both the Baron and Lady Angela attended the grand opening of the Four Sisters Barbershop along with Professor Hamblin, the Baron’s chief advisor. The Baron got a haircut, as did the Professor, and Lady Angela was very pleased with the results. Since Lady Angela was a close friend of Penelope, she hoped that their shop would be a success.

But after three months of operation, Penelope told Lady Angela that the shop was not doing very well. It seemed that the girlfriends of the men who wanted to go to the shop were telling them if they went to the shop, they would no longer be their boyfriends.

Lady Angela mentioned this to the Baron who said that one’s gender should not always be a determining factor in employment, but the person’s skills were more important.

The Four Sisters Barbershop closed and soon reopened as the Lilliland Barbershop with four barbers—three men and one woman—and one of the sisters was manager. It was still owned by Penny, Peggy, Prudence, and Penelope, and one of the sisters was the female barber. Everything worked better this way. In a year another sister would be added as a barber, then another, and another, until the public gradually got used to the idea of women barbers.

It took a little longer than they had planned but the four sisters were very successful. Lady Angela and the Baron were both please at the outcome.