Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-14
THE FANS DID MOVE.
BUT NOT WITH ANY GREAT DEGREE
OF REGULARITY.

Whereat the Barbcr's customers
Were Much Annoyed Until They
Experimental OncNot Yet Patented.
There was an up town barber shop
that boosted a couple Of ventilating
fans. The barber was proud of them,
and we'll he might be, because his was
the only shop in the neighborhood that
had luxuries of this description. They
were rugged on a light iron rod that
stretched across the ceiling and went
through the back partition. There was
a dim impression among the customers
that the barber either had a pocket
motor in the back room or borrowed
his power from a n%eighboring factory.
I. There was q boy connected with the
shop, a somewhat sluggish boy, who
seemed to spend a good deal of his time
in the rear room. When the boy went
back, the fans would start up, and
when the boy was called into the big
room the fans stopped.
"Hang it ALL, the barber would say
that darned motor is out of order againl
Go back as soon's you can, Jimmy, and
oil it up"
And Jimmy would go. back, and pres.
emily the fans would start up again.
When a customer looked around and
said, "Where's that blamed kid? want
my shoes shined," Jimmy would bound
into the room on the jump, and the fans
would give a feeble whirl or two and
stop short.
Once, when Jimmy was sick, the
fans didn't run for three whole days,
and it was mighty hot weather too.
Getting the motor tinkered up" ex-
planned the barber to the sweltering
patrons.
But early one evening there was a
grand "exposay" performance in that
little back room. The chairs in the
operating department, three in number,
were full, and five ''nexts'' waited in a
row along the wall. Suddenly a dismal
ki-hi.ing was heard from the alley in
the rear. 1t grew in volume, it increas-
ed in shrillness. The fans wavered,
Stacked their speed, spurted and dropped
again. Wilder grew the canine outcry.
The fans stopped short, there was a
heavy thump in the back room and a
wild scramble, and a boys shrill voice
was added to the awful medley. The
barber ran back, followed by his assist.
ants, while the ''nexts" and the half
shaved ones brought up the rear.
There was a dogfght going IN in the
alley. The boy had hold Of one dog by
the tail and was wildly shrieking and
prancing and yanking.
"Kiok that curl" he yelled. II amt
agoin to have my dog chewed up by no
bow legged mongrel. Kick him, won't
your"
Somebody obliged the boy, and the
youngster hastily gathered up his in.
jured pet.
"What was your blame dog doing
down here?" somewhat savagely in
quired the barber.
II was goin to fix up some kind o
way fer him to run them darn FANS"
sullenly replied the boy as he critically
examined the dogs right ear.
Then everybody looked around and
saw the iron wheel and the belt that
connected with the shafting and the
handle and the stool the boy sat Oh
while he turned and turned.
And everybody grinned.
Lets adjourn to the next room, gen.
tlemen," said the blushing barber.
And a moment later the fans were
again merrily revolving.
Whereat everybody laughed again.
"That's a cheap and handy motor of
said the fat man in the first
chair, "but it amt what I call strictly
"Mebbe not" said the barber short.
ly.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.