The Washington herald., 1909-06-20
MISTOOK !
Simply Becuz Sine Pertended TO Be
SOnsthink Which He Wasn't He
Went & Got HisssIf Into a TT-
rihIs Mess and now Him and His
Wife Is on the 0uiS-Sa', S d.

This sad tale which IS about 10 foller
lust goes TO show that sometimes ap-
pe7rances Is deceptive and that things
amt always what they seem 10 be. There
IS also a moral which teaches US that Il
IS always better not to pertend 70 be
something which we amt and then We
won't get snarled up IN sich mess as
Sine Winslow. one OF our most res
peckted citizens did, on last Tuesday
eve'g.
As everybody knows a razor amt tou-
ched Shines face sinst the day he was
married II years ago. SINE has always
claimed that It was too tarnashlon much
bother TO shave every month or 50 and
so he has let his whiSkers STOW rank as
you might say and as a result they was
nearly down 10 his waist.
Well last Tuesday ev'g, SINE he
dbpDed into Harve Hines tOnsorIal
barber shop for little chat and Harve
who Is a hustler and always looking Tor
business asllt Sine why he didn't have
his whiskers cut being as the weather
was now getting powerful warm and
he thought II would be a great comfort
10 have them often his face, but Sine
said he didn't calkilate he would Harve
told Sine that being II was him he
would shave his beard of clean for the
ridicuius sum OF fifteen cents which was
cheep considering that he had more
whiskers on his lace than a man ushual-
" has on his head and that 70 cut a
head of hair was 3 cts, But Sine he
still hung back and finally Harve got
out OF pashients and he says 10 SINE,
20 well, dog-gone II come and git IN
the chair and I'll cut of your old wins
kers for nothing-is that cheep enuf 2
Sine Is a great hand to get something
for nothing so when Harve made this
offer ne got right into the chair and
Harve shaved his face, clean.
The change which follered Shines ap-
pearance after he was shaved was hard
" 70 be believed-he looked Ike another
man. He went from Harves into Hen
Weathersbys store and not a soul
knowed him until he explained who he
was. Then bye and bye Slime he start
ed for home, and forgot all about having
( his beard shaved
When Sine slept up on the front pi-
azzer and tried the door OF his house he
found II locked but his wife Matildy
was setting inside by a lamp on the
table darning Shines socks for him, be
ing as Sine could see her through the
wiuder Matildy is little mite tinid
about being IN the house all soul alone
so when Sine amt there she locks the
door. When she heerd Sine try the
door she got up and opened it. Sine
he started TO walk in, but she stopped
him, and says, Who might YOU be, sir
and what might you want, If YOU
please?"
Then Sine he happened to remembei
about having his whiskers removed anC
. he knOwd that Mauldy didn't know who
+ he was SO he thoTt Il was too good Z
! joke not to carry any further so h
spoke right up, changin' his voice. anC
says, ~Tm Mr. Jeb Jones from ths
! County seat-6oes Mr. Sine Winslou
live here?
"Yes," i" says Mrs. Winslow. hut b,
amt 10 hore-I'm lookin' for him ev
4 err minnit. though Then Sine saws
/ Well / guess I'll wait for him. so h.
goes n and Matildy takes his hat anc
asks him 10 SET down. which Sine does
SINE talked about the weather anC
crops with Matildy for a while anC
then he says, Il reckon Sine IS a purr
good husband to you, amt her" We'll