The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-12-30
A FEW BARBER
SHOP SUPERSTIT|ONS
Both the Barber and the "Bar-
bered" Have Their Good
and Bad Omens.
is A NIP AND TUCK RACE
Many Men Who Are Perfectly Rational
on Most Subjects Fear the ioodoo
They Imagine Turks in a
Barber's Chair.

BARRIERS are SlperStitiouS and SO are
the "barbered." 1t is nip and tuck as
10 who has the most good and bad luck
omens. Many men who are perfectly
rational on most subjects have IL super
s%titious fear of the i'll luck of the bar
ber's chair. and they are set in their
beliefs and fears by the constant good
ard bad luck ideas advanced by the
Wielders OF the razor.
There's n reputable. front-seat,
water-Wagon newspaper man. for i'm
stance, who sends out columns of good
stuff To an eastern paper, but says
whenever he permits Il frcckled-faccd
colored barber to shave him it simply
means the fellow ON the opposition pa
per scoops him. And, strange. too. the
other newspaper man claims bad luck
follows him whenever amy barber other
than his regular one Shaves him. To
see Il ~hunchback in Il mirror of II ba!--
Der shop indicates bad luck for two
weeks, while to 20 in il shop just as
the hunchDaok comes out means u
streak of the best kind of luck the
balance Of the year, 1T is not com
fortins to have the barber tell You that
10 be cttt twice on the same side OF
the face will bring good luck for many
months and that TO lily off the handle
and abuse the barber kills all chance
for the good luck TO hit your path
WAY. \ sure Vure for rheumatism is
to let Il led-headed barber cut your
hair and never speak Il word about
horse races o. politics while the job is
being done. 1t is safe To say that no
cure will ever be made. for red headed
BARRIERS are "conversationalists from
ConversationVille.' If You sit cross
legged in IL BARRIERS chair. your hair
is liable 10 come out early in life. and
badness and gray hairs may be pre-
vented with every superstitious belief
advanced by the. entertaining artist.
If You would guard against every
form of bad luck. never permit IA barber
to shave Your muStachc before ac does
Nour chin. Adherents of barher-shop
olnenS say say this is the very worst
thing which can befall II man. Ii is
also claimed that if the mustache is
shaNed first II good crop of beard can
never be grown, no matter how much
tonic and hair producers the artist may
use at . cents per use. Never occupy
Il chair Just vacated by Il pug-noscd
man. Any barber will tell YOU he dis
likes To shave n p~ug-nosed customer.
n bootblacks will give them Il wide
berth. Blu the individual who causes
a dead set balk on the part of the
razor wielder is the stammering man.
BarberS declare ii is almost impDSSible
to shave Il stammerer without nipping
him with the razor. Stammering sim
ply gets n BARRIERS nerves unstrunE
and he cannot handle his razor.
Men thoroughly familiar with barber
shop superstitions always have their
shoes polished While being shaved.
Most BARRIERS object to the annoyance
of the bootblack. but confess it means
good luck To the customer. Nc barber
VIII make an attempt to use a white
handled razor to shave a red-headed
man. He Would never succeed in doing
more than making the fellows face
look like Il porterhousc steak. BARRIERS.
however. claim that red-headed men
who do their own work or keep indi-
Nidual raZors nearly always have
w~hite-handled ra2ors. The limit on
l'aZors for a busy days work is three
for . barber. If they sharpen and none
more than this number, bad luck will
follow.
The nan who gets shaved before
breakfast viii run in luck the entire
day, but if he hav himself befors.
his mornings meal bad luck will follow.
The man VINO smokes during the time
he is getting shaved will never suffer
from IA raw face. If you carry "A rab-
bits foot. don't show ii to your barber
for 1t VIII take the harm away. Near
ly all BARRIERS are believers in the eff
cacy of the rabbit foot. but they never
exhibit the foot. keeping il always in
the left pocket of his trousers. If a
barber makes a lather mug of YOUR
ear. don't object. for your ear may be
more sanitary than the mug which he
uses to lather hundreds of customers.