Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-03
CAN'T CUT HAIR ACCORDING TO IN
STRUcTIoNS OF PATRON
IN CHAIR.
DO IT IN THEIR OWN WAY.
zen Who Want to Wear Side Locks in
Front Their Ears Suffer from
This Popularity.


his head about and impaled the barber
with his steely eye, says the New York
Sun.
Now, just wait Il minute" he said. in
Il somewhat peremptory tons. Just
drop everything while l am making this
hItie speech TO you. Don't nerely pre-
tend II listen, but hste:i. / want ali of
your attention. Have ( GOT it."
Yes. sir" meekly replied the barber.
All right" said the man i'll the chair.
I've got your attention and you're lis
tening. Now, look here. DO you see
these things!" and he rested his two
forehngers lightly on the square cut side
locks i'll front of his ears.
Yes, sir, | see EN-" said the barber,
smiling a. if he we'll knew what was
coming.
Very WE'LL" said tie man in the
char. Now, listen to me. want
o-things-to-stick! Got that?
Understand: | want 'em as they are.
Now you're dead sure you've got that,
are youI'
Yes. sir; l hear you,' replied the
barber apparently a bit miTed.
What Pittsburger Did
Now, l don't want YOU to take this
little speech of mine on this subject to
heart went on the man in the chair.
appeasingly. II haven't made it for the
purpose OF hurting your feelings. | sim
ply want these things to stick. that's all
In order TO keep BARRIERS from chopping
en- right off, | find that I'm absolutely
compelled to make speech, in set
terms. before the job begins. Even aft
er l made the same kind of talk rs | m
! handing YOU to the barber who cut my
hair last-it was in Pittsburg-he calm
! ly slashed these locks right off before
my eyes with the first move of the scs-
sors. thinking at the time, | suppose, of
/ the batting averages Of his favorires on
the Pittsburg club, or of some 80 to l
! horse that he didn't manage to land on.
You can go ahead. But l want en- to
stick"
One Barber's Experience.
When this square jawed customer left
the shop half an hour or so later he car
ried his side locks with him all right,
and the boss barber grinned
we get lot of these speech making
| side lockers nowadays" he observed
OF course, there's some reason behind
the care they take to make this point
stick.
For long time after these side locks
came into vogue. something more than a
year ago, a great many BARRIERS thought
leSsly cut them off. They'd cut 'em off
even if when getting into the chair the
customer with the side locks casually
mentioned that he wanted the things to
remain as they were.
The truth of the thing is that the
great majority of BARRIERS cut hair the
way they want to do it, not according
to the instructions given them about the
job by the owners of the hair. The pig
headed barber used to get by all right
in the days when the only instructions
men gave about their haircuts were as
70 whether they wanted a long or short
cut, but in these days, when every man
has got his own ideas about the way he
wants his locks removed, the barber
who insists upon doing the job after
his own ideas won't do at all.
We got one barber in the shop who
was mighty stubborn in his way of
handling customers until one of them
showed him up few months ago.
Ham Actor Effect.
This customer was a Crouch all
right, but he was privileged to have his
uesses dressed according to his own
plans and specifications so long as he
paid the price. But my pigheaded bar
Der wouldn't give it to him.
The customer told the barber at con-
siderable length before the job began
that he didn't want his hair cut round
in the back.
Don't give me that ham actor eff
feet, he SAID to the barber when the
apron was being fastened on him. I
don't want it pushed up in the back
and chopped even around the neck and
my neck shaved. I'm not in the pretty
boy class and am not trying to give
folks the impression that I'm leading
juvenile IN a bum society play.
That was all right. and ! was sore
when | overheard the barber saying to
the customer:
e But | should think you'd like it cut
round in the back. 1t d sure look bet
Ter that way
- You think so, would yOu| growled
the crouch, very properly. Well I'm
doing the thinking part here, under
stand. You cut it the way | tell you
and you can do all the thinking on the
side that you want to-
so what did he do but 60 right
ahead. ia spite of the Instructions he
had got and stake that man to just
the kind of haircut he didn't want.
When the crouch found ont what
was coming off he was just about the
hottest man | ever saw IN a barber shop
He jumped out of the chair, swearing
Il blue streak, cOmbed his own hair
with about four swipes Of the brush.
tossed his money on the pay-off counter
and stormed ont Of the shop with storm
signals flying from all over him and
leaving Il tran OF SuipnufoNS language
behind him that | can almost sniff yet
Only One Side Cut
about month later the crouch
came back The barber with whom he
had had the run in wasn't busy and the
crouch deliberately picked him out He
got into that BARRIERS chair. and when
the apron was being fastened around
his neck he said, in as mild tone as
yOu ever heard, TO the barber:
I want just the right side Of my
hair cut moderately short
The barber. of course. .vas damh- |
founded.
The right side only, SIR he in /
ouired. sort % hoarsely.
Yep. that's what l said placidly re- |
replied the grounch Just the right side. I