The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-08
THE BROOKLYN HAIR CUTTING
STUDIO.

Where the barber has such high and
Ciouu-plerclng notions, rs II to he won
,oered at that the city itself is so refined
ana so excelsior? The day, dare saw is
iiot lar distant when the sausage making
u etter Will he as common IN BrookIvn 10
the man with the long divided skirt frock
coat is now i''N
Inc reu necktle is certainly contendine
III spirited manner for the New York
ana BROOKLYN right OF way with the frock
coat, which has beautiful sweep of kilt
IIeacliing considerably below the knees.
some attribute this imported English
idiocy to one cause and some to another
put you Will hnd when you come to ti,,Ire
III All out that the able and brainy taller
wishes not only to make for Won n new
style oil irock coat, but top coat also. for
otherwise you expose your new and
astonishing skirts.
1t IS rather pretty custom for those
VINO have trim hips and a natural and
beautiful sweep of tOurnure. but for the
pumpkin seed order of architecture with
sloplng shoulders and broad intelIectnal
hlps. together with gait which occunies
the entire breadth of the sidewalk, the
long frock-coat simply emphasizes tho
eccentricity and advertises a doubtfnl
attraction.
met several days ago a bright speci-
men OF the college graduate He is an old
TREND of mine, and living illustration of
the advantages of a collegiate education.
lie is very prosperous, though not in the
line OF any profession. This is, of course
disappointment to his parents, but NOT
to him. He always hated the profess ions.
but admired other avenues for obtaining n
livelihood. lie earned his first money as
n child by returning valuable Maltese
cat on which there was reward of $40
seeing the advantages to be derived from
this branch of trade he soon returned
other valuable cats for which there was n
reward offered, and soon after that he
added to his trade that of the valuable
dog.
He has been very successful in the cattle
industry in the far West, he saws. and
with nothing to start with but n tired
steer, tireiess branding iron and nobility
OF purpose. Coupled with his college
training, he has made out by the natural
increase and geometrical progression. as
We call it in mathematics, to own "A large
and very fine herd of 5000 head of good
cattle.
And do you attribute any measure of
your success" / asked him the other day.
''to college EDUCATION
Not to the college education as you re-
gard IT, perhaps, but TO the stimulation
which natural genius receives at college"
"Ah, and how SO, pray? There is n
good deal of discussion going on all the
time over this question of college educa-
now do you regard a college training as
especially stimulating to genius"
well, L Will admit that ! was not a
success from a collegiate standpoint
was practically blackballed and sent home
several times to my parents, but they had
pull and was returned. My genius did
not lie in the direction of the classics or of
higher mathematics or rhetoric or the
languages, but in the direction of inyen-
ton and evasion of arbitrary rules. For
illustration, it was found after had been i'm
college two years that every examination
had in fact been farce, for had worked
the printer so that we had advance sheets
of the exam questions, but at that time all
was discovered.
II now began to fear that [ would never
graduate, and even my college friends, who
had been SO deity assisted by me, began
now to desert me. All looked dark. 1t
looked to me as though ia have to really
learn all that rot out or the books or fail
of my graduation entirely.
Zone day | thought of a new scheme.
This is what makes me favor the college
and hurrah for my Alma mater, on whose
tender bosom have been more than once
observed to lie.
1.-The cast iron rule now was that every
sheet of examination questions should be
counted before and after printing, like the
rule for voting by the Australian ballot or
the custom in the United States treasury
printing establishment. So [ resolved if
possible to beat this game, and | did.
That is where | got the discipline which
has made me a success i'll the stock bust
ness. That is why today | own 5000
head of fat cattle on the Colorado hills,
where | started in with a rusty branding
iron and melancholy steer, whose cell
bacy was a matter of gossip all over the
state
well, how did you pass2'
pass? Why / got the job printer, a
coon named Orlando Taylor, to wear white
linen trousers while doing his college work,
and after he was done and had delivered