Omaha daily bee., 1893-05-28

through with him he'll never come back an .,
more. Whyi Cause Shortyn hurt him.
You see, whom barber has q customer With
beard like that he doesn't want him rrru.
lsr-seol so MIR. Iron bearded Man gets al
rough shave and goes somewhere else next
time. III he gets an easy shave he comes
back, so a barber that's onto his business isl
careful not TO be too easy with him. Thcy're}
hard customers-those iron bearded men
aud mostly have tender skins too, which1
makes 'em all the harder TO shave; besides,
this fellows bald headed, so IL doesn't pay to,
keep him. Ali Shorty's doing a great iob1
--tha: man'll never come back"
Which shows that there are tricks In ALI
trades, and in the barbor's trade are somel
mighty mean ones.
One OF the most talkative mon IN Omaha]
took day of recently and wrote the follow
ing for TnE BEE:
Speech is silver-silence Is golden" 1t is|
said
This is true, not because II should be, bu 4
because II Is The world Is faulty and
misguided student Of character, and this id
one of the axioms it has hung up in promiI
nent position, where all who run may read
IL has been the way of the world almostl
since its beginning to reward him who keepJ
eth a close mouth, and to frown down hin(
OF the babbltng tongue and the ready speech
man that never says ANYTHING Is wise mani
"A man OF thought whose seldom-spokenl
words merit the closest attention and whosel
utterances are to be accepted as oracular
while he who talks, IL Is argued, is an ass \
pure and simple, bccause-simply because hoI
talks.
What fool world! There are rules AMI
rules. To some of them there are more OK
cceptions than there are to others. I'd
The ,rn,,, rule ne. set up by mistaken
necessarily man of brains, and that th6j
man whose ever ready tongue is alwaysj
getting him into trouble is utterly devoid of
gray matter, there are more exceptions thanl
to most rules know many thick-headedj
ass TO whose credit it Is ever being said |
"ho doesn't say much, but he does u lot oil
thinking" Behold him, my friends Bel
hold him who receives the plaudits OF ard
admiring world for having sense enough toJ
keep his mouth shut, when, be it remcm-
bered, he has not sense enough to open iii
intelligently, except at rare intervalsl True,
he does lot of thinking. In many cases he
has to keep thinking, day and night, iny
order to become possessed Of fully del
fined idea once in while.
do not advocate the cause of the tallSingl
man, nor do / wish to be understood as
setting forth that n man is silent fromS
stupidity more often than from weight
of brain. But do say that the world is AZ
fool, that it worships fools, and that thed
talking fool whose ideas crowd, has asl
strong claim on the worlds considerations
as has the stupid fool, whose profound ex-l
preston of brow and close set mouth make'
such striking impression ON the casual OBJ,
server. \
But silence pays-there Is no doubt of
that. Hence, let us wear a perpetuaf
frown and be chary of expressing our opin.I
ions, that In this bright world we may beg
esteemed as men of wisdom and men Of
thought. \
sit stands as an established fact that thes
majority of women are not averse to being
admired. Can and will one of the sex standS
forth and affirm that she would prefer to be;
glanced at and derided at 10 o'clock a. m, TOD
Icing stared at and openly admired at 81
o'clock p. m.2 MOI Well, then, please let
us stare; for while we love gentle woman n \
all times we amire her most when she is1
nI hea a Nd hn,.1 i.