The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-29
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Some Points in Human Nature that DO
Not Escape Their Attention
have barber who has been an OK
tensiye traveller and who has looked
into the faces of many distinguished
men. Like the average barber, he is
yoluble. | don't object to this. ia bar.
Der is a good talker, and has been a sta
dent of the pages of humanity, why not
listen to him The same as YOU would
your pastor, If you have one. As | nut
my mead pack on the chair of this bar
ber last ne said that he was afraid he
could not give me as good a shave as he
was in the habit of doing. 1t is not nee.
eesary to explain what led him to un-
rayel this story:
81 am going to get ont Of the business
pretty soon, hope. am getting tired
OF IT.; IN fact, 1t seems to be getting
tired of me. | used to be a sailor and
was soldier in the Indies, in Her
Malesty's service II knew this to be sol.
| make no pretensionS to courage. but
never knew what it was to falter, and rs
Tor nervousness ] never i'm my life knew
what that meant until began handling
q razor. Some BARRIERS will tell YOU
mat 1t is the fault of the barber himself
II ms hand IS unsteady. Well, it isn't.
Let me explain. IL is the kind of n ems
toner the barber has which creates that
feeling. You know | have had This
chair in this same place for seven wears
ana more. In that time | have ac-
CURED trade. My customers are
men whose business keeps them ON
the strain. For the most part they are
members of the Board of Trade, and
bank cashiers, and book-keepers. They
come in here out of the excitement of
their business. They are i'm a mental
culver. 1t becomes contagious after You
nave gone over dozen such faces and
rubbed dozen such heads in a day.
nave handled them so long that know
when anything is unusual. A member
OF the Board of Trade does not have To
tell me when he is long or short, |
don't read the paper to find out whether
there is corner on wheat or pork. OF
course, | may not know what the com.
modify is, but | do know whether il has
been up or down. The book-keeper of
one of the biggest banks on - street
was in here ahead of You. | knew
something was wrong with him, and he
finally told me that he had been both
| cred all day over one of his accounts un-
I'll his head was like top"
such faces, ventured to remark, must
Dt ulllltull 10 SndNt,
Eyes, they are. Now, if mechanic,
or anybody who does physical work,
comes in, IL is u sort of a relief TO shave
such face. Talking about relief re-
minds me of what man on the board
said to-day. He came over here after the
board had cleared, and | happened to
say that suppose he felt relieved that
the days worry was over. He looked at
me and said: mo it isn't that. The wor-
ry Is to come says he. | asked how
that was, and he said: "Well, as long ms
| am in that noise and hnrrah and excite
ment I live in 1t and enjoy il. When il
isover and walk away the stiffness and
quietude abstracts me, and sometimes 1t
almost drives me mad"
"Do you know any of the peculiarities
or traits OF your customers-such as YOU
have discovered from coming in contact
with them in your business?"
81 think so. After you have shaved
one face continuously for several years
there is sort of confidence that springs
up between the man and the barber. The
man who trusts his throat in your hands
three or four times week for seven
years had as left tell you his secrets as
not, and some of them do it. But bar.
bers who get such customers know
enough to Keep their mouths SHUT
"What becomes of the barber who
never gets shop Of his own: he grows
old the same as other men, OF course, bu
he can't continue his business, can hei
"No, they go away from the place
where they. have been known. have
often thought OF that myself. am moi
a sentimentalist, you Know, but ther,
Is something sorrowful TO me In the last
days of q barber who has not beer
thrifty. lie gets out of the wav of thos,
whom he knew. He goes off To himsel
and that is the last you hear OF him. III,
seldom gets into any other business, ant
when he loses a job ne Is of all men IN,
most miserable. There you are."-[Chl
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