, 1888-01-17
HAPPY IN HIS CALLING.
A Bnrber's Cheerful View of the World
and His Own Place in 1t.

"a hhfDtI = SnceTIul Wow OF tho word
and His Own Place in 1t.
"How did 1 happen to choose the bar
ber's trade? Well, there wasn't much
choice about it. 1 had to look out for
myself when about IA years old, and this
was one of the first things that offered.
But I've never been sorry that l learned
it, for, do you know, there isn't a more
Independent business for a workingman?
A man a travel nearly all over the
world with some profit and enough COM
fort if he is an expert barber. Well,
you may laugh, but all the same I'll bet
big odds that l can put a razor or two and
n pair of shears in my pocket and travel
further and fare better than one of you
fresh reporters with your pocket full of
pencils and head full of fakes.
"a first class journeyman can't strike
a city on the globe where there isn't a
ready market for his services. The ex-
ira assistance required Saturday nights
and Sunday mornings will always allow
him to earn enough to keep the wolf
away, and something over for washing
and car fare, and his calling gets him in
the habit Of keeping up O tidy appear
ance without much expense. Most other
skilled workmen need a bulky set of
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weather and various circumstances for
employment. Not so with us; nothing
interferes with the attention given to the
hair.
Then again we never become over
crowded with competitors. Young chaps,
as q rule, are too proud to learn the bust
ness voluntarily, and when they do at
tempt it few attain the highest standard.
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they don't amour to anything. There's
always enough transient trade to offset
them. True, a good many men can
shave o scrape themselves after a fashion.
but even then most of 'em have to pay
tribute to our homes. The hair gives us
u best source of profit. A man can't
cut his own hair. What do you say-if
he could he wouldn't get talked to death7
Now, you just come off; if 1 didn't talk.
you'd go to sleep in the chair, and some
of the customers would think you were
tight.
Say, did you ever see sailors and SOL
diers shave themselves? On men of war
and in the British army it is a common
thing to see q man sit down without q
looking glass and quickly give himself q
neat, clean shave. You are going to try
~ oOiilStlIlSE Neu, plStSe Will III
you've paid me for the last months work
on those blonde telegraph wires of yours,
for you'll be likely to sever your jugular.
"Did ever put my travelling theory in
practice2 Why, I've been right across
this continent, through the south and
made all the ocean trips l want to, with
out ono being compelled to do laboring
work. When I've been out of funds or
had to be careful of what l had, I've won
many a good supper and nights lodging
at a farm house by giving the old man a
velvet finish shave, or the youngsters
hair a city style of cut; and when l could
prevail on the women folks to be sham
pooed and have their hair dressed, [ was
solid for q good breakfast as well. Then
there's several ways of making a little
stake; sell the farmer a pet razor and
make a dollar; of course, you can have
half a dozen pets in your satchel; or tell
the girls some profound secret that will
enable them to make pomade or bando-
lire. Yes, sir, just as you say, "a barber
never need be strapped if his z has to
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