Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-11-02
CAN'T CUT HAIR ACCORDING TO IN.
sTRUCTIoNs OF PATRON
IN CHAIR.
Do IT IN THEIR OWN WAY,
Men Who Want to Wear Side Locks in
Front Their Ears Suffer from
This Popularity.

with his steely eye, says the New York
Sun.
Now Just wait minute" he said, in !
IL somewhat peremptory tons. Just |
drop everything while | am making this !
niue speech to you. Don't merely pre-
tend to :Esten, but listeG. / want all of |
your attention. Have T got it,
es, sir, meekly replied the barber
49, All right" said the man in the chair.
We got your attention and you're lis
temng. Now, look here. DO you see
these things?' and he rested his two !
torehngers lightly on the square cut side
locks i'll front of his ears.
Yes, sir, l see en- said the barber,
smiling as if he well knew what was
coming.
Very well,' said the man in the
o-things-to-stick! Got that?
Understand? | want 'em as they are
Now, you'r dead sure you've got that,
are yOu!'
Yes, sir; 1 hear you," replied the
DarDer, apparently a bit m:Tea.
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. Il haven't made it for the |
purpose of hurting your feelings. | sim
In order to keep BARRIERS from chopping !
EN- right off, l fad that I'm absolutely |
compelled to make Il speech, In set /
terms before the job begins. Even aft |
er l made the same kind of talk as IN |
handing you to the barber who cut my |
halr last-it was in Pittsburg-he calm |
ly Slashed these locks right Off before |
my eyes with the first move of the scis-
sors, thinking at the time, l suppose, of |
the batting averages Of his faVOrlteS on |
the Pittsburg club, or of some 30 to l |
horse that he didn't manage to land on.
You can go ahead. But want EN- to
stick"
One Barber's Experience.
When tbs 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.
I'VE get 4 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 |
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
90 whether they wanted Il 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.
I've got one barber in the shop who
was mighty stubborn in his way of
handling customers until one of them
showed him up a few months ago.
Ham Actor Effect.
This customer was crouch, all
right but he was privileged to have his
tresses 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. l
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 a leading
Juvenile IN bum society play.
THAT was all right and / was sore
when | overheard the barber saying to
the customer:
round in the back. 1t d sure look bet
ter that way.
You think so. would you?' growled
the crouch, very properly. Weir In
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.
$50 what did he do but go right
ahead. in spite of the Instructions he
had cot, and stake that man to just
the kind of haircut he didn't want.
when the crouch found out what
was coming off he was just about the
hottest man l ever saw III barber shop
He jumped out of the chalr, swearing
blue streak combed his own HAIR
with about four swipes OF the brush,
tossed his money on the pay-oH counter
and stormed out of the shop with storm
sionals flving from all over him and
leaving a trail of sulphurous language
behind him that | can almost sniff yet.
Only One Side Cut.
"About a month later the crouch
coma hack. The barber with whom he
had had the run in wasn't BUSY ana the
crouch deliberately picked MN OUT. ne
GOT into that BARRIERS chair and when
f the apr apron was being fastened around
h;s noel, he said, in as mild tone as
YOU ,cn ever heard. to the barber,
II want just the right side OF my
hair cut moderately short.
The barber. of course. vas dumb
founded. mp 10 IN
quired sort Of Of ho arf / said pIaeidly re-
ronl;ad fine grounch Just the right side
Don't Don't touch the left side with your SelS,
s ops at all. Get busy. | haven't much
'li irTba barber did the job exactly as
Tho l,mstomer told him he wanted 1t done,
s gave the man first rate cut GA ot 1ee
right right side of his head and LETT the o'hef
sit when hen he got through the groncn
rool,ed III ike one of those Papuans We
s Ioo nctures of and he'd have mace