The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-17
FAT BARBER INCIDENT
Show Story of Talk With a Stranger
in a Chair

Table d hote or a la carter" remarked
the Fat Barber. as his weary-eyed and
be-whiskered victim plunked down into
the chair.
Which? Are you talking real words
or only amusing yourself" retorted the
victim already swathed in towels
Neither answered the Fat Barber. I
am speaking French. What / mean to
insinuate is. do you want the whole
shooting match-hair cut, shave. sham
poo. hot towels. mustache curled, quinine
tonic. ETC.. or do you Just require. my
services in, a cursory. la carte way.
Say, shave with bay rum p.
"One shave will be sufficient" said the
victim, and please talk; your words
are soothing to my nerves.
This was a rash remark. for BARRIERS
are without that fine sense which differ
entiates between satire and gospel truth.
Speaking of bay rum" obediently
commenced the Fat Barber, Il should
think that some one would start the cuI-
tivation of bay trees in commercial sort
OF a way and put some extract on the
market that would not only be cheaper
and better than that which Is now used.
but would be so very plentiful as to be
easily used with other materials for d
more varied assortment of toilet artl-
cles. Excuse me, the razor slipped.
Now, bay rum such as is used by bar
bers has long been an article of export
from Porto Rico. The oil is obtained by
the distilling OF leaves Of a small tree
with a Latin name. which sounds worse
than it looks. The natives, 1 am told,
call it the malagueta. 1t also grows in
the Danish West Indies and some Of
the neighboring islands No. 1 don't
know where the Danish West Indies are,
but the neighboring islands are those
nearby. No, didn't read it in a book.
a fellow told me about 1t. On. we bar
bers pick up lots of useful information
first and last.
Well, the funny part of it to me is
that bay rum is now obtained from the
Wild trees which grow on the rocky hill
sides and other land which can't be used
for anything else. I don't see why some
enc doesn't cultivate the trees and get
a corner on bay rum Yes. as you say
they would have 10 put it UP in square
bottles. because you can't get a corner
on round bottle. but 1 presume that
could be done. Yes: the flies are very
bothersome; we are going to have a
screen door next season when the boss
gets his instanment on his new chairs
paid Up:
From what they tell me Porto Rico
must be a pretty good smelling place
over or the south side there are miles
or miles Of waste land with shrub OF an
aroma that they get the perfume called
casie from \ man in here the other day
told me they called it cassie IN France.
he says. It is extensively grown. They
dry the solution cured from the leaves
and use It as a ssehet powder It's the
part OF the powder that makes Il smell
good I tel you when when We got
Porto Rico we got lots OF good things.
The Philippines. too. have their perfume.
They have great plantations of Wand
yland and make a perfume that IS very
popular IN the Orient as well as II Eu-
rope. I never smelt any OF T. Guess
they don't have Il here. Costs *
pound, anyway. so We couldn't use e.
Where DO we get our bay rum FROM or.
the boss. he buys It by the barre. I'm
port IL on. 70. I'll tell you when he
goes cut Hes putting on his coat TOW.
Gee. It's raining and had q dead
ssre thing il III ffih race. Suppose
I'm cut row. Iss a funns thing about
horse racing
Yes. he's gone now. How did yOa
IKE the bay run / tuss put on your
face G00dz Yes. It's very fire On.
where did We get III Vel. between
ourselves. il isn't bay run AZ az It's
Just plain run the bsys buy II BsiFs
next door. No ore knsws the di1-TeSce
and i eon.i cost mach = azythIzx.
There. cir. Thank you. Next gent 81
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