Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-02-25
The T0NsOR|AL.
TIP-TR(lST

w men lIdfleS MafWlGk resigned
$4,000 year clerical position with the
, United States government to accept
SIS week job as barber in the ton
serial parlors of downtown hotel,
the wonder of his friends amounted to
a strong suspicion of Marwick's sanity
1t was a great come-down, not only
in his salary, but in his social status
as we'll
An intimate friend approached him,
one noon, in regard to the matter and
Informed him that a reasonable ex-
PLANTATION for the change would not
only satisfy a growing curiosity but
would save his act from reaching the
ears of the fool-killer
Marwicks answer was to offer his
friend a cigar and inquire if he
| thought it 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 to the politics
of the administration. You haven't
been removed, either, as you have al
ways been a 100 per cent man. Come
tell a friend-what is it? Perhaps
the boys can adjust it."
I'll tell you" Warwick finally WELD
ed. You see, l want to get into bust.
ness for myself, and the barber trade
isn't bad business after all. A few
years experience in a first-class shop
and I'll be ready to open my own par
| lors'
Don't believe a word of it," blurt-
| ed the friend There's some deeper
purpose in Your act and, besidas how
and when did you learn to shave and
cut hai1?'
Might school, of course, Best
night school in the city. Cut hair for
nothing, but the last beggar gave me
a ten-cent tip. Said it was The first
hair cut he ever had"
We'll, wish you luck" sighed the
friend who was confident now that
| Marwick's mentality had received a
wrench, and that the man was more to
be pitied than censured. "I'll 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. No,
sir. he shan'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 well-paid GOV
eminent position TO follow the trade
of tonsorial artist, he certainly had
not been mistaken in his ability to
| shave and cut hair
| His handling of both scissors and
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 wears
after he had taken TO the tonsorial
field il was learned that he acquired
full title to 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
from some Of those Wall street
brokers, was the most satisfactory OF
/ these conjectures.
This explanation held for while
then a violent quarrel between Mar
wick and his employer ended with
the former suddenly disappearing from
sight and the latter publishing his late
employees secret.
1t seems Warwick had found that by
a peculiar manipulation of the head
he could excite the stineiest man to
the extreme pitch of generosity. conse
quently every patron he had shaved
or whose hair he had cut, had tipped
him most literally, and the total OF
these tips had reached fortune in a
very short time
/ He had located the nerve of gen
crosby, or tip-nerye, and only the quar-
rel with his employer, perhaps Over
the sharing OF his liberal fees. had up
set his welllaid plans However the
loss was not long his, for short time
thereafter a number OF tonsorial par
Tors We're opened simultaneously
throughout the city. and though none
OF his former friends could locate
Charles Warwick, it was soon evident
that he had entrusted his secret knowl
edge to select class of barber con
federates and that he was at the heat
OF the tonsorial tip-tlust, as profitable
as any other favored trust.