The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-02-02
THE SILENT BARBER TALKS.


e elderly banker out Of him. with SID
e whiskers and a mUstache. The vicious
0 looking cadaverous chap With the pret
l. ~ girl could be distinguished II he',
b cultivate an imperial. What the w0rls
needs is a stage manager. The makeup.
r are al wrong.
The barber sighed sadly 1t Is nard Il
be e philosopher and an artist and to be
: | handicapped By tie obstinacy and stu
. pidity Of human kind
Don't some Of your patrons take their
possibilities and defects seriously?"
smith frightened percepubly
"Oh, yes" he said. ''there are gentle
men who know what's what They have
their own hair cut and their own shave.
and they don't care hang what the
style is Some Of them are freaks. but
I don't mind a consistent freak Now
there's a peel comes 10 me. He aoated
into the shop one day in a dany-down-
dilly sort Of way. ! could read verses
al over him. but ] liked him He was
good-looking, and even 81 he was sort Of
tnin figured th-t be punched q bag
between verses. and he had good eyes
sized him up ana said to myself. Hair
three inches at the collar four in 'front.'
Van Dyke shorter, dropping mustache.
was dead wrong. He knew his business.
Can you give me Florentlne hair
eut2 says he.
THAT got me.
4 never met ore. says T. Introduce
me and / can give you one
with that be whipped out two or
three unmornted photographs from his
cape coar and showed them to me-
They an looked alike only the faces
were little different and the heads were
taken from different angles The men
an had smooth faces and hair that was
a cross between Little Lord Faunsleroy
and a country hcme cut You know. In
The country the mother used to take a
small choDping rowl ami clap il over the
boys head and then cut an around the
bowl. Well those men IN the pictures
looked as II their BARRIERS had used a
chopping bowl.
'ls that a Florentinc haircutg says l.
1T is, says the poet
" 4 can do that with my eyes shut
That's what ] want done.
"He sat down IN the chair ans kept an
eye on me In the looking glass; and ]
tackled the Florentine method-stralght
bang across the forehead. long enough
down over tho collar and cut straight
across IN the back He had good hair
soft and thick and silky-and when ] got
through with him he could give points
to the Florentines IN the pictures Then
We sacrificed the Van Dyke and the
mustache. was a little afraid of that
mouth but It turned out ali right. and
when ] had finished him up / felt as IL
beat any poem he ever wrote. but didn't
he have the nerve to figure out the
makeup and wear itg I've been touch /
ing up his Florentlne finish ever since
II I'd die he'd have troubles OF his own /
But do you know. lately he's been talk
Ing about changing his hair. / didn't 4
Ike to think about IT, He's So perfect
as he IS. The other day I said 10 a
friend OF his that comes TO me.
" What in the world is making your
chum worry about his hair?
THE fellow grinned awhile and then
he says
Wen, don't you.say I told you. but
the fact Is he's in love
Aren't poets always that wayg SAYS
More or Leslie writes poetry him
this time It's more The OH
ers were In love with him and his hair.
He's In love with her. and she says
poster girls aren't 50 bad but she can't
stand a poster man
II suppose that hair viii have TO 60
After ali, you know. the women have
more to do with the way men wear their
hair and shave than the men do. Ask
a felirY why he wears a certain kind OF
beard - hair, and It's ten TO one his
wife ikes him best that way. It's the
l think. that started this smooth
shaven business. They went dotty over
matinee actors and thought smooth faces
were jr-t too sweet and they nagged
their sweethearts and husbands into
shaving. I've had hundreds OF my Gus
toners come in and have their boards
and mustaches shaved on because their
wives or best girls insisted on t. More
ools they. The women will be able to
size them up better than they could be-
fore
Sometimes men wear their hair ana
Deard in a peculiar way 20 cover somc
ear or deformiiy, and the things / have
o do 20 offset Increasing badness would
make you grin. The number Of different
lair tonica / an told to use-nore or them
my good-makes me tired. but the men
bring their tonics, and ! put them up
the private shaving outfits.
Funny how particular we're getting
ince the microbes waded into society.
sn't f.? The worst looking tramp that
ONES IN nowadays strikes for a private {
mug and blush. Then rncre men shave
themselves every yea. It's the swagger I
hing. and. II II does hurt my trade. ] win /
ay it's a good thing for a man 10 know :
low to shave himself well It's a spien.
I'd thing IN an emergency, when he can't s
ct at barber; but the average man
uins his face doing it, and would much 2
etter stick to a good barber. except On
Extraordinary occasions. That's straight.
'ou needn't print advertisement after J
T. must get along. Hope you don't 4
lind my talking shop. Interesiingg on. ,
don't know. Good night [
But the next afternoon. when the man 8
ropped IN at his barbcrs. n dear mute. o
eth nc suggestion Of beer and Intimacy :
4 his glance shaved him