The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-05-06
WHY THE BARBER
TALKS so MUCH
Customers Take Them for
Walking Encyclopedias.
MUST ALSO Be DIPLOMATS.
Some People Insist 10 Telling Them Thar
Woes, Their Bravery, Their SpTees
and 0ihsT Affairs.
MUST ALSO Be DIPLOMATS.

mood As he stropped his razor before
starting on the man in the chair the vic
tim knew he was in for 1t. says the chi
cago lntcr-Ocean.
There is no better place in the world &,
study human nature than IN barber
shop" said The knight 90 the razor
Here we peet all kinds of people. 4
barber who is onto his iob can tell q
liberal customer the minute he sticks
his head in the door And in the same
way he can get next 10 stingy guy
'Once In while he might make a mis-
take. bu. he usually sizes up people right
There H. no business where So much tact
is required as I'm the barber trade Every
man who gets into chair Is different IN
his tastes, and the barber has got 20 feel
his customer out. That requires skin OF
no mean order.
ITO he a successful barber nowadays a
man must be a diplomat lie has got TO
keep posted on all the news OF the day
and also make a bluff at reading the mag
azineS and new books. When man in
the chair asks the barDer "A duestion--no
matter what h may be-he is disposed
10 get sore II the answer is not salts
factory
ION sporting events the barber Is sup
posed 10 be an authority. He must know
the record OF every man in the National
and American leagues. the winners OF
every Derby and Suburban ever run, and
the records of every fighter since the
days OF Heenan and Sayers.
Half the people who patronize barber
shops get all their rubber from the bar
Der You meet them on the outside and
you'll hear them telling things which
they claim 20 have seen In the paper.
but it's not 80. They get it handed To
them by the little man In the white coat
who gets Sl4 per-
GET CONFIDENTIAL WITH BARBER
Turning the victims head so as TO
shave the left side of MS face, the barber
continued:
Nine men out OF ten when they lie
back in n barber chair become confiden-
tial at once with the barber. II makes
no difference whether the customer was
ever I'm the shop before, he thinks the
barber will be Interested i'm his little
frouhles or escapades with the ladies.
That's why SO many BARRIERS go crazy
Listening to this and that mans tale of
WOO, month after month. and year after
year. is enough TO drive any man 'daffy.'
The barber has 10 take IL all in and
laugh one of those false alarm laughs
or the customer wifi go to some other
shop. where his confidential chats are
appreciated. oh, this is a fierce busi-
less.
''One OF those high rollers. who has
been out the night before doing the town.
drops in for shave. and he tells the
barber what a great time he had. Maybe
he spent $50 and went the route. The
barber hears this and gets sore at him
self. He hasn't any appetite for supper.
and when the shop closes he borrows So
from the boss.
He goes out TO paint the town. Before
he gets the paint properly mixed he's
broke, and he hasn't been south OF Van
Buren street. The next morning he
shows up at the shop feeling like "a lob
sier, and after an hour or two he makes
his getaway.
we get message, which says: Come
20 the Harrison street station What
are you going TO do about IL?
Its 10 the white-stone front at Twen-
ty-Sixth street and California avenue
with George If you don't go TO the res
rue; and when they get barber out
they keep him all summer on "A 81 fine
sSit UP little higher. please, so that
can get under the chin) t|
SOME MEN DIGNIFIED
"Some men think they must act dig
nifed I'm barber shop or else they won't
get proper treatment. They wouldn't
give YOU a pleasant look for n dollar
And there's the man who's all smiles
The minute he strikes t;e chair he begins
10 hand out the bull. and he never let's
up until he's out on the street
This fellow tells you a funny story.
which you have hears a thousand times
before. but you've got To laugh just the
same AS n II came right hot of the pan
/ can put up with almost any kind of "A
bore except the fellow who springs those
musty old chesinuts. The man who IN
sists on telling you what bright baby
he has Is bad enough. hut ne isn't I'm the
same class with the story-teller
Whenever I'm sitting down and one OF
those fellows begins 10 unwind few
yards, J say "rweniy-taree' TO myself and
go out 10 look at the cable cars.
Every barber shop has one OF more
customers who. when they come I'm. will
eit down and wait for the barber who has
been IN the habit of shaving them Now,
that makes me tired NJ the customer
who foolishly waits for a certain barber
only knew what the other BARRIERS think
~ him he womld climb into the first va.
cant chair.
"A man never makes anything BY wait
ing for what he is pleased to call his
barber used 10 have one of those kind
Of customers and one day I fired the
barber who had been shaving him for a
year OF more
The next time tho customer came I'm
he looked around the shop and said.
''Vherc's ms barber? Who do YOU
mean | asked why the fellow who
has always shaved me- he replied on.
said 7. "vu mean that man who used io
he on tho third chair. 7 didn'i know a.
he was y-our barber
You must have bought him ON tho in
ftailrnent plan and WAS paying for him al
thn rate of - cents a week The my
barber customer sneaked. and / never
saw him since.
SOME QUEER CUSTOMERS.
"Sone of these old has bcens whose
hair is turning gray are enough 10 drive
\ barber ~ hard drink bad one of
Them this afternoon. He Got in the chair.
and. after admiring himself On tho glass.
|old me 20 cut his hair 80 that the gray
hairs wouldn't show. Now. what do you
think OF that?
Cut IL short on the back of the neck
he said. for the gray hairs show palmer
here than on top OF the head wouldn't
hat frost your. And coming from an old
suy about g. a little bay rum on the
,air)7
The bsld-hcsded man r. another ierce
'Topositon. He's got about sixteen hairs
N top Of his head, and he thsnks the bar