The Cairo bulletin., 1907-08-18
TINE BOSS BARBER
ON a VACATION


tioa I've had fer IA years sail
middle aged boss barber whose shot
is In the financial district. Wen
down with pneumonia a couple O
months ago. and the doctor man sen
me to Atlantic City 70 rest and picl
up.
Now | don't get away often, bh
when ! do | Kind d like 70 swes
around some and forget that | eyel
was barber. Well | struck snae
1T that this time.
Went into the barber shop OF one
Of the boardwalk hotels ons forenoon
10 get shave Felt bit peevlsh
and cranky that morning, maybe be
cause Id been playing two bits lirpi.
for five hours the nigA before with
out ever pulling anything better than
two pairs.
The barber in whose chair sat
wore "a Van Dyke beard, and that
didn't add TO my good nature | like
10 gee clean shayea BARRIERS: whish-
cred barhors make me tired and /
wouldn't have one around my shop
II he'd work for nothing
Razor hurts' the man shaving me
asked me after he'd made faw
passes with the blade. 8
Yes. II does. [ replied right or
the bat It's wonder to me you
barb 1s wouldn't keep Your tools
sharlened mp
"I'H Try another, he came back
good naturedly; and although the
first razor lad really been all right,
| told him, when he inquired, that the
second one was passabls enough,
Rotten weather down here. he
observed as he plugged along at my
tough beard
Yep. replied with the air Of a
railroad president in a barber saop,
who doesn't care mrch for tonsaiel
conversations it's rct;eS Il you say
sol
Row deal this weather, on the
landlord folks down here. he CON
and saw that he was enc
Of the hard to crush kind.
Tn, | replied but | wish you'd
try to keep soAe Of that lather out
of my mouth don't elioy the taste
of 1t right en TOP Of my breakfast
"Tha vaalykad barber srinaed
pleasantly AMI went On wish his job I
This q be a queer old world with /
ont barbers wouldn't h?' he surprised /
me BY saying aher pause OF min /
ute or so.
Oh, | dent know. | told him. I
think Il d be first rate world with.
aut EN-. ILeged be a whole lot leas
iuae, sary conversation. fsF one
thing
Well. instead OF looking subdued, I
blamed If that fool barber didn't
augh right out at that sqaeleher Of
nine
Oh. well he replied, with his I'M
iamnled flow OF cheerfuIsess. some
il ms have got to be barbess Of course.
Pretty punk business. at that
Well it sure Is, | replied. Seems
0 me that any young fellow of spunk
md grit and ambition would rather
rive truck or carry the hod any
line than be a barber
THAT got another series of ehsckles
ut of my vandyked barber He
hnckled so continuously, in fact
hat ii grated upon me, and half sat
y in the chair and glared at hhn,
'hich only caused him to ohuckle the
lore
Say You | said to him, I want
gu to cut out that fool sttering and
Il me get out of here said to him, :
hen. I don't visit barber shops for
he fun OF the thing. Id nsveT go !
ear one Of the blamed places if | i
idn't have to, which was no lie.
low hurry up and get through and lot i
lie break out Of here
" Shampooy he asked me. :
." No.
Hair singed?' 8
No. u
Hot towelsT ID
NO, III
Vibrator on your head?' !
"'No,s
Tonic?
No no. MOI
" Powder on your face?
MOI ! bawled at him. 'Jast pull
lis apron frosl around my neck and
mme out of here. I'd rather spend 4
day I'm Jail than a quarter of an hour
a barber shop
well, that grinning barber chap
most fell down from internal laugh
r as he pulled the napkin and apron I
ON around me. | hustled on nay q
liar and tie and coat and hat and
lid him, and | was just about max y
z for the door when he said:
d" 'Hows things down on Broad
rect, boss?
/" Brad streetY' I said to him,
Keeling arousd. What Broad street?
hat the deuce makes you think
low anything about Broad
" oh, nothing the man replied.
nly | worked in your Broad street
Cd for a spell once, bout nine years
%. that's all.
And 1t was so. took another look
him and remembered him. even
der the screen of his Van Dyke ~
ard.
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