The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-06-23
BARBER'S TIPS.

One of Them Makes Fun of the Practice
of Giving Dimes to the Men Who Shave
Us.
Give me small change will you?"
n customer asked of n German barber
uptown, the other day.
"Zertently," said the barber; you
wish To get for der vellar vot shafed
you ten cents ovid, alretty, eh?'
YES, | do. What have you TO do
with that?'
"Plame liddle, its nodding to me.
Here's your shange. Now, I'll tell you
vot I'll do; I'll gif you der ten cents
und I'll shafe You for one month free,
il you'll gift me Won goot reason Why a
man vot got his sense yet should gif
der boss of a shop feefdeen cents und
der man vot shafes him ten cents der
same dime"
"Oh, it can't be justified. It's just a
habit. l amt the only one that does
IL, am II"
mo, dots chust der reason Why I
make n kick aboud it. Der lunaddic
asylums wouldn't holt all the tam fools
who give away n gromo of ten cents for
getting one n chob of feefden cents.
But it'll shtop gwick some day, when
dis coundry gifts itself poor like all der
olt countries by Europe. You make
dot down in black and white und wait n
little till You see Something's"
well let's near what you've got to
say about it. l believe You want your
customers To give their tips to you, al
though you're getting richer than a
pownbroker."
Dots all humbuck pizness, and you
know better as You talk. / don't care
what you done nit your money, but IL
you are going TO gif away ten cents init
each shafe il would he more reasonable
If you should to der boss give it, yet.
Der is my man. He gifts ten dollars a
week, and got his personal oxbenses
only, und family oxbenses. Veil, 1,
too, rave got choost der same expenses.
But for my fifteen cents l pay dot Teller
his wages, 1 pay der rent, l pay der gas,
l pay der laundry tree dollar a week, I
pay der coal, I pay der interest on s., 200
furniture Won der shop. Make dat all
togedder, und you find l got, nit four
men shteady at der chairs, more rs for
ty-five-hundred dollars expenses ovid
side der family lifting vot my men got,
choost der same. Can'd you see, alret-.
ty, dot dere amt anyding but huu
bucks in giving me fifteen cents =
der man ten cents? Why should
which got nodding but himself to SUI
bort, get two-thirds der same as mef
We'll, what are you driving att"
PIN choost drifting ut der humbuck
nonsense of der whole peezness. Vot
for should you bay dwenty-ffe cents for
n f~ifdeen-cent chob? Do you subbose
der beoplc Of England and Chermany
and France do anyding so foolish like
dot? You bet yer life dey don't. Dey
gif a barber n benny, or two cents
maybe, und de barber is glad he gets
dot, alretty. Der rule in Chcrmany
und France is to gif aboud von-tenth Of
der bill for n tip, SO if you Stipend a
dollar you gift ten cents only, und IL
you Stipend ten cents you gift n penny.
In dis coundry beople make money
like u house afire, so gwick dey got
crazy. Der time comes bretty gwick
vot you dom see some fellers vo got
sense by der heads giving ten cedts on
a fifdeen-cent chob away, and don't
you forget somcding. IL makes noding
owd nit me. I'm glad my trade gets
der biggest tips in der vorlt, und II you
can shtand il der BARRIERS Won't kick"
n. y. sun.