The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-01-04
HOW THEY FOUND
he Used to Run a Barb
Couldn't Conceal tn,
agreeable Fact.


ton I've taken in eight We;
sun-browned middle-aged
Der who is very well known
lngton, relates the Star. THE
Ing business began to pail upo
acutely about q month ago tina
ply had to pick up and run
where. wanted to forget ii
ever been barber or the hos.
barber shop. In my anxiety to
ceal my avocation, however, al
sort O. pose as a somebody en-
dlHerent from a barber l struck
little snag that will remember.
Went into barber shop dow
the beach one forenoon to get SHAY
For some reason or other I felt a
cross and cranky that morning. T
man into whose chair sat had Va
Dyke beard, and that didn't add to m.
nature. like to see a clean-shavet
barber-whiskered BARRIERS make me
tired, and l wouldn't employ one il
he'd work for nothing.
Razor hurt?' the man shaving me
asked, after he had made few passes
with the blade.
eyes. it does, replied, testify.
It's a wonder to me you BARRIERS
wouldn't keep your blades sharpened
up
"I'll try another one,' he said good
naturally; and although the first one
had really been all right-only l was
cranky, as l say-I told him, when he
| inquired, that the second one was
passable enough
Going in bathing?' he asked me
as he plugged along at my tough
| beard.
"'Yep.' ! replied, with the air of a
railroad president in barber shop
who doesn't care much for tonsoriaI
conversation, if feel like it,
Waters great now, they tell me-
my barber went on.
'Um,' said l. L wish you'd try 10
keep some of that lather, anyhow, out
of my mouth. Don't enjoy the taste
of it right on top of my breakfast
The barber grinned good-naturedly,
and went on with mis- job
"This'd be queer-loolSing old world
without BARRIERS, wouldn't it?' he
came back again, after another short
pause.
"'Oh, don't know l replied. I
think it would be frst-rate world
without 'em. Thered be whole lot
less conversation, for one thing
Well, instead of looking crushed,
blamed if that fool barber didn't
laugh right out loud at that squelcher
of mine.
cob, WE'LL he replied with his un-z
damned flow of cheerfulness, some Of
US have got to be BARRIERS, of course.
Pretty bum business, at that
Well, should say so,' replied.
Seems to me that any young man Of
spunk and grit and ambition would
rather drive truck or carry the hod,
any time, than be barber
That got another loud laugh out OF
my Van Dyked barber. He laughed
SO loud, in fact. that it grated upon
me. and l half sat up and glared st
him, which only caused him to laugh
the louder.
~ wish you'd cut out that fool
cackling and let me get out of here,
l said 10 him then. I don't visit bar,
Der shops for the fun of the thing.
/ I'd never go near one of the blamed
places If l didn't have to- Now hurry
up and let me break out of here
Shampoo he asked me.
"'No!"
".Face massaged?
"'No!"
"'Tonic%
'No-no!
Powder on your face?'
Not l shrieked. Just pull this
apron from around my neck and lem
me out O. here. I'd rather spend
day in jail than quarter of an hour
in barber shop!'
THAT grinning barber fellow almost
fell down from chuckling as he pulled
the napkin and apron from around
my neck. l hurried on my collar and
tie and coat and hat and paid him, and
was just about starting out the door
when he said to me:
How's things in Washington,
boss?'
Washington said, wheeling
\ upOu It'll. WudI tIic ueuco ulakSS
you think I'm from Washington
ooh, nothing the cutthroat re-
piled, only | worked in your shop n
Washington once, bout nine years
ago, that's ALL
"And it was so. took another look
at him, and remembered him, even
under the cover of that Van Dyke
beard. He'd worked in my shop for
an entire winter, but l have so mary
men coming and going all the time
that l hadn't recognized him. hur-
ried right anyway from that shop,
and for the remainder of my stay at
the beach l did all sorts of lodging
SO as not to pass by it again"
Freak of Whirlwind.