Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-12-30
A FEW BARBER
SHOP S~UPERsTITl0NS
Both the Barber and the bar
bered" Have Their Good
and Bad Omens.
IS a NIP AND TUCK RACE
Many Men Who Are Perfectly Rat'ona'
ON Most Subjects Fear the Hoodoo
They Imagine Turks in a
BARRIERS Chair.

BARRIERS are SuperStitlouS ana SO aiE
the ,barbered.'' 1t is nip and tuck as
10 who has the most good and bad luck
omens. Many men who are pertecuy
rational on most subjects have a super
stitious fear Of the in luck of the par
ber's chair. and they are set LII their
beliefs and fears by the constant good
and bad luck ideas advanced by the
wielders of the razor.
There's a reputable. front-seat.
water-wagon newspaper man, for m
! stance, who sends out columns OF good
stuff TO an eastern paper, but says
whenever. he permits II f~reckled-faced
colored barber to shave him ii simply
means the fellow on the opposition pa
per scoops him. And, strange, too. the
other newspaper man claims bad luck
follows him whenever any barber other
than his regular one shaves him. To
see Il ~hunchback in Il mirror of a bar
Der shop indicates bad luck for two
weeks, while TO go in a shop just as
the hunchback oin out means a
streak of the hest kind of luck the
balance OF the year, 1t is not COM
forting to have the ba~ber tell you that
to be cut twice on the same side OF
the face viii bring good luck for many
months and that TO fly off the handle
and abuse the barber kills all chance
for the good luck TO hit your path
way. "A sure cure for rheumatism Is
to let a red-headed barber cut your
hair and never speak a word about
horse races or politics while the job is
being done. 1t is. safe to say that no
cure will ever be made, for r~ed-headed
BARRIERS are "conversationalists from
Conversationville." III you sit cross
legged in a BARRIERS chair, Your hair
Is liable TO come III early in life, and
badness md gray hairs may be pre-
vented with every superstitious belief
advanced by the entertaining artist.
II you would guard against every
form of bad luck, never permit a barber
to shave your mustache before ae does
your chin. Adherenis OF barber-shop
omens say say this is the. very worst
thing which can befall a man. II is
also claimed that If the mustache is
shaved first a good crop of beard can
never be grown, no matter how much
tonic and hair producers the artist may
use at 5 cents per use. Never occupy
a chair just vacated by n pug-nosed
a Any barber will tell you ne dis
likes TO shave a pug-nosed customer,
and bootblacks will give them a wide
berth. But the individual who causes
a dead set balk on the part of the
razor wielder is the stammering man.
BARRIERS declare it is almost impossible
to shave a stammerer without nipping
him with the razor. Stammering sim
piJ 6CAS ~ bdlDCA = lSINCS ui1SlTuDE
and he cannot handle his razor.
Men thoroughly familiar with barbev-
shop superstitions always have their
shoes polished While being shaved.
Most BARRIERS object to the annoyance
OF the b~ootblack, but confess il means
good luck to the customer. No barber
will make an attempt to use a white
handled razor to shave a red-headed
man. He would never succeed In doing
more thar making the fellows face
o like q porterhouse steak. BARRIERS,
however, claim that red-headed men
who do their own work or keep indi-
vidual razors nearly always have
white-handled razors. The limit on
razors for a busy days work is three
for 4 barber. Ii they sharpen and hone
more than this number, bad luck will
follow.
The man who gets shaved before
breakfast will run in luck the entire
day, but III he shayes himself before
his mornings meal bad luck will follow.
The man who smokes during the time
he is getting shaved will never suffer
from q raw face, If you carry a rab-
bits foot, don't show it to your barber
for it will take the charm away. Near
iy all BARRIERS are believers in the eff
cacy of the rabbit foot. but they never
exhibit the foot, keeping 1t always In
the left pocket of his trousers. If a
arberAmake -lather mug of vaisr.
ear, don't object, for your ear may be
! more sanitary than the mug which he
uses TO lather hundreds of customers.