Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-02-22
THE TONS0RIAL
TIp-TRUST


United states government to accept a |
Sl6 week job as barber in the ton.
orial parlors of downtown hotel. |
'he wonder Of his friends amounted to
q strong suspicion of Marwick's sanity |
Il was a great come.down. not only |
in bis salary, but in his social status |
as well
An intimate friend approached him, !
one noon, I'm regard To the matter and !
Informed him that a reasonable oX- ,
planaton for the change would not /
only satisfy a growing curiosity, but |
would save his act from reaching the |
| ears of the foolNllor
Marwicks answer was TO offer his
friend a cigar and inquire If he
though. &c was going to shower.
Come. come demonstrated the
friend This isn't the way TO put
yourself straight You were under
civil service, so It can't be because
| you've taken exception 20 the politics
Of the administration. You haven't
been removed, either, as you have al
ways been a 100 per cent man Come
tell @ friend-what Is &c? Perhaps
/ the boys can adjust IT,"
"In 'oll you Warwick finally yield
| ed "You see, want TO get into bust
ness for myself, and the barber trade
/ isn't q bad business after all. A few
years experience i'm a frstclass shol
and Ill be ready TO open my own par
lors"
Don't believe a word OF it!" blurt-
D ftrTB.s.gfa. !.
purpose in your act and, besides, how
and when did you learn to shave and
cut h1ir?'
"N'eht school, of coufse Best
night school in the city. Cut hair for
nothing. but the last beggar gave me
a ten.ccnt tip. Said it was the first
hair cut he ever had"
well ! wish you luck" sighed the
friend who was confident now that
MarvicSs mentality had received a
wrench and that the man was more to
be piied than censurcd. 'Iu drop
around whenever I'm in your locality
and LET YOU try your hand on me"
But when he had reached the street
again this friend shook his head. mo.
sir. ne shau't ever get me under his
razor. | prefer crazy men as poets
not BARRIERS"
The advice OF his many friends did
not turn Warwick from his new
course. and before long those friends
had to admit that while he had been
unwise in giving up a wellpaid gov
rnment position to follow the trade
Of tonsurial artist, he certainly had
not been mistaken in his ability to
shave and cut hair.
His handling of both scissors and
J razor was faultless, and soon he was
the most popular man in the shop.
Within four months the proprietor Of
the parlors voluntarily doubled his
salary, which. with the liberal tips he
, was known to receive, was not bad
pay.
Then he saved more, too, than in his
= former position, and a couple of years
after he had taken to the tonsorial
Geld II was learned that he acquired
full title to a valuable piece OF Forty
} second street real estate.
His friends laid their heads to-
gether-heads that Warwick had lately
shaved and sheared to perfection
and tried to figure out how he had ac-
, complished this financial marvel
, "He gets pointers on the market
Z from some of those Wall street
? brokers" was the most satisfactory Of
/ these conjectures.
I This explanation held for a while,
I then a violent quarrel between Mar.
3 wick and his employer ended with
the former suddenly disappearing from
sight and the latter publishing his late
y employees secret.
II seems Warwick had found that by
a peculiar manipulation of the head
he could excite the stingiest man 10
he extreme pitch of generosity, conse
luently every patron he had shaved
or whose hair he had cut, had tipped
him most literally. and the total OF
these tips had reached a fortune in a
:, very short time.
He had located the nerve of gen
erosity, or tip-nerye, and only the quar-
Z rel with his employer, perhaps oyel
the sharing of his liberal fees, had up
. set his well-laid plans, However, the
q ! i""' "e9 H"S loh5 MS, lOI d nhoi ulHt
thereafter a number OF tonsor.ll par
, lors were opened simultaneously
, throughout the city, and though non,
of his former friends could locate
: Charles Warwick, it was soon eyiden
: that he had entrusted his secret knowl
. edge to select class Of barber con
- federates and that he was at the hea,
Of the tonsorial tip-trust. as profitable
as any Other favored trust.