The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-27
MISTOOK!
Simply Bscuz Sine Pretended TO Be
Somsthink Which He Wasn't He
Went & Got HlsssIf Into a TT
ribIs Mess and now Him and Ills
Wife Is on the 0uts-Saf, S d.!

This sad tale which is about to foller
just goes to show that sometimes ap-
pearances is deceptive and that things
amt always what they seem to be. There
is also moral which teaches us that it
is always better not to pertend to be
something which we amt and then we
won't get snarled up in SIGH mess as
Slime Winslow, one of our most res
peckted citizens did. on last Tuesday
eve'g.s &
AS everybody knows razor amt tou-
ched Shines face sinst' the day he was
married II years ago. Slime has always
claimed that it was too tarnashion much
bother to shave every month or so and
SO he has let his whiskers grow rank as
iyou might say and as result they was
nearly down to his waist.
Well, last Tuesday ev'g, Slime he
dsopped into Harve Hines tonsorial
barber shop for a little chat and Harve
who is hustler and always looking fol-
business askt Slime why he didn't have
his whiskers cut being as the weather
was now getting powerful warm and
he thought it would be great comfort
to have them often his face, but Slime
said he didn't calkilate he would. Harye
told Slime that being it was him ht
would shave his beard off clean for the
ridiculus sum Of fifteen cents which was
cheep considering that he had more
whiskers on his face than a man ushual'
| w has on his head and that to cut Z
head of hair was rs cts. But Slime ht
still hung back and finally Harve got
out of pashients and he says to Sine
20 we'll, dog-gone it come and git II
the chair and I'll cut off your old whis.
kers for nothing-is that cheep enuff p
Slime is great hand to get something
for nothing so when Harve made thi:
offer he got right into the chair ane
Harve shaved his face clean.
The change which follered Shines ap'
pearance after he was shaved. was hard
| " to be believed-he looked like another
man. He went from Harve's into Her
Weathersby's store and not sou
knowed him until he explained who hi
was. Then bye and bye Slime he start
ed for home, and forgot all about having
his beard shaved.
When Slime slept up on the front pi
aver and tried the door of his house HI
found it locked, but his wife Matildy
was setting inside by lamp on th'
table darning Shines socks for him, be
ing as Slime could see her through th'
winder. Matildy is a little mite timiC
about being in the house all soul alone
so when Sine amt there she locks thu
door. When she heerd Slime try thu
door she got up and opened it. Sim'
he started to walk in, but she stopped
him, and says, who might you be, sir
and what might you want if yol
please?"
Then Slime he happened to remember
about having his whiskers removed anC
he knowd that Matildy didn't know WHIT
he was so he thort it was too good {;
joke not to carry any further so HI
spoke right up, changin' his voice, ant
says, "I'm Mr.. Jeb Jones from tn,
County seat-does Mr.. Slime Winslov
live here3
eyes" says Mrs. Winslow, "but h,
amt to home-I'm lookin' for him ev
cry minnit, though" Then Slime says
well, l guess I'll wait for him." so h
goes in and Matildy takes his hat anC
asks him to set down, which Slime does
Slime talked about the weather anC
crops with Matildy for a while anC
then he says, II reckon Slime is purt!
good husband to you. amt her" "Well