The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-01-12
STILL TRIMS HUSBANDS HAIR.
Aged Millionaire Keeps to the Custom
of His Poverty Days.

Aged Millionaire Keeps to the Custom
of His Poverty Days.
In Brooklyn there lives millionaire
well along in years, with wife from
whom also youth has long since ned.
From the old days before wealth
came to them the couple retain one
custom which has passed, as the years
have flown, into sort of sacred rite.
The old lady cuts the old gentleman,s
hair. Once a year the millionaire
goes to a barber shop and has MS
scanty locks trimmed. That sets the
style for the ensuing year. When ne
comes home the wife carefully stud
les the cut, and after that it is her
work of love to reproduce 1t until
another year rolls around and the an
nual visit to the barber takes place
The old gentleman also SLAVES him
self
Economy in the matter of barbering.
which was first a matter of stern ne
cessity, is now the one little thing that
the couple refuse to give up out OF the
days of poverty AS they are child
less couple, there is nobody to hector
the old man into engaging a valet
Really the old man has his hair cut
i more often than is necessary, foI
sometimes when the worries of wealth
and social duties are more than or
dinarily oppressive the good wife Will
say: "Come dear-come up to my
room. I want to cut your hair" And
while the scissors snip the old couple
/ laughingly go back to the old happy
| days of youth and struggle once more.
No Chloride of Lime for Him.
Pat Egan, plasterer, and a well
known character Of Cambridge, Mass,
walked into a shoe store on Massachu-
sets avenue on Saturday evening re-
Gently to purchase a pair of shoes,
says writer in the Boston Herald
After looking over three or four pairs
Iof shoes he hit upon one pair that
took his fancy. He tried them on,
and found that they did not pinch or
chafe, but complained that they went
on too hard.
"Oh, thatll be all right, Mr.. Egan;
I'll easily fix that remarked the
clerk, who Immediately took the shoes
of and proceeded to sprinkle powder
into them.
He was about to try them on Pat
again, when the latter stood wrath
fully up in his stocking feet and shout
ed out:
"Oh, no, you don't! No, you don't!
Mr.. Bell! Mr.. Bell! Come here!
Come herei I've bought shoes of you
for the lost foive years. but the divil
shoe will I buy of you again. This
brazen-faced clerk of yours tried to
put chloride of lime in my shoes, but
was too smart for him."
Bird Was Removed.
A woman rushed into a fashionable
millinery establishment which she had
left only an hour before with a new
hat that cost her SIS. She had re-
turned to discard the elaborate head
gear.
Why, madam, what is the trouble
with this hat?" the milliner asked
What is the matter?" gasped the
purchaser. There is much the mat
ter. Why, l would not wear that
again until that bird with the big wing
is removed or set in different posi-
ton
But that is the STYLE" said the mil
liner.
style or no style it has got to co.
said the purchaser. ~ will never wear
that hat until | can go about without
the wings of birds sticking in the eyes
of men, and especially horrid men like
the horrid one that told me that one
bird in the bush is worth two in a
hat"
The bird in the hat was removed.