The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-10-03
WISDOM AT THE CHAIR.
The Barber as Mysteriously Pro-
found Philosopher.
Reflections Upon the Change in Styles of
Hair-Cutting-A Lecture for a Pro-
fessor-Human Nature as an
Open Book to Him.

"You want hair cut to-day, don't
you knew you did. l can always
tell when man wants his hair cut be-
fore he opens his mouth. How Easy
enough. If man wants his hair cut
he'll feel of the back of his head when
ting in the chair he'll look in the mir
TOR and turn his head one way and
then the other. l never coax a man to
have his hair cut, and 1 make money
by it. Some BARRIERS are always sug-
costing to a customer that his hair
needs trimming. They may make an
odd quarter that way once in a while,
but in the long run they lose more than
they make. WhyP Simply because
they run up agin' human nature.
That's what they do. 1t never pays to
do that. You always get left. Now
there's my wife-she's full of human
nature of the woman kind. When l
get in bed about one o'clock in the
morning, tired out and sleepy, and she
wakes up and says to me, says she,
'Adoniram that's my first name.
Judson being the middle one; most
people think my initials stand for
Andrew jackson, but they don't; l
was named after Adoniram Judson,
the great Baptist minister-oh, yes,
when at one o'clock in the morning
my wife pokes me in the ribs, and says,
'Adoniram, you left the front door
open,' don't dispute her. know the
front door is shut and locked, but /
make no fuss about it. get up inn
mediately and go and see to the front
door. If hadn't studied human ma
ture I'd be apt to try and talk her out
of it, only to be kicked in the ribs again
after had got to sleep. It's human
nature with woman to think the
front door is unlocked until a man has
got up in the dark and barked his
shins on the lounge trying to find out.
She never will be satisfied until he
does get up, and the wise man recog-
nizes this element of human nature
and gets up at once. Now,
its the same way about men
having their hair cut. 1 have figured
it out after many years of observation
that just seven men out of ten are sc
contrary by disposition that they don't
want to do anything man wants them
to do. The way to get them to do q
thing is not to say a word about it.
''Now, some men make mistakes in
pronunciation. The smart barber will
never correct them. For instance, one
of my customers told me the other day
he wanted his hair cut la Pompey
Did say You mean Pompadour, DOM
youp' No Stree, not much. l says
'Pompey was an old blood, and knew
how to have his hair dressed as well al
to fight says |. Couldn't afford tC
offend that customer by correcting
him. We never say boo when mer
make the funniest mistakes in the world
Hair cut la Pompadour is quite thu
rage among young clerks and nice fel
lows. They know it is the style, bu
they are not dead sure of the name o
of it, so they make jump at it.
"'Give me a commodore cut, say
one of 'em to me one day, says he.
"'All right, says L; the commodor
is just the thing for you-how will yol
have it, quarterback ortlying jibP'
''Now, that young man had been OIL
the water-he goes fishing off the Gov
eminent pier every Sunday-and m,
delicate fattery charmed him. Blu
the stylish young men around town d
make some funny. mistakes. One da
one of 'em asked me for a 'stevedore
cut. 1t staggered me a little
but l gave him one and KEEP
my face straight. Another one
who was either a horse fancie
or an opera crank, 1 don't knoN
which, wanted his hair cut "a la troubs
dour. But the funniest one of 'em a.
was a chap who hemmed and hawed
little when asked him how he'd hav
it, and then blurted out that hunk
dori style, you know what it is, thong
the fellow that wanted his sin the bar
door style, but not too wide, was a
most as laughable.
1.-The Pompadour, you know, is t
leave the hair long in front and com
it up and over back while the rest {
the head is cropped close. Queer no
the styles change. Years ago we ha
to plaster a mans hair about his ten
pies with graceful curves and lots