Arizona republican., 1910-03-02
RECORDED IN THE HAIRCUT.
The City Barber Looks Over the Wort
 of His Up State Fellow taborer.

Been out of town. haven't you "' asked the barber. with the air of q man who has got something on you T can always tell where my regular customers have been by their haircut You've been up state"
 The critical looking over tha, ac companied the information made ahe customer resolve never again to try a new barber.
 Yes. sir" continued the regular haircutter. whoever turned out that job didn't know much about haircut : ting. Probably got his training in the butcher shop cutting off steaks.
 Saturday night is bad time to get haircut in q small town anyway. How do know it was Saturday night? !? Easiest thing in the world. IT you hadn't been caught there over Sunday you'd a waited till you got back to me
 I'll try and fix you up. but it may take two or three cuts tp get if back just right again 1 had it trained just as you like it but this butcher fcller has cut off too much on the sides and he didn't preserve the neck line
 
 I've fixed up my customers when they come in off the road. Some of 'cm look even worse'n you do. When d regular comes in with one of these real flossy pompadours l say: "How's things in Chicago? Fact. That style of cut is called the James Cor bett. But the only type that oughtcr touch that fad is those tall. blond young Germans. Dark hair cut pom padour looks like d wire hair brush
 What style did this upstate butch CT give me-" venturcd the regular customer.
 You got what I'd call the convict shear" was the answer That is. all but the top of your head. where a fringe of hair stands out like one of mothers crochetcd mats. That feller may be an Al barber for all know. but he done you 2 bad job. One req son was he never had my chance to study your style.
 "''I know it's unbecoming to give you q John Rockefeller shaved egg hair cut. You arc at your best with the college boy coiffure. as the lady hair specialists say. This time can only fix you up so you at least won't be ashamed to take off your hat Drop in again in a few days.
 You mustn't get too sore on that upstate hair cutter concluded the regular barber gently. You want to remember that only one barber in 500 is d good hair cutter. It's not alone because hair cutting requires more skin than shaving. but there's less money in it
 "A barber is paid sorter odd The first SIP. s15 or SIS. according to To- cality and the standing of the shop. is guaranteed to him as regular wages After that the next BIO goes to the house. Then he gets one out Of every three dollars taken in after that during the week. That's. the rule in most shops.
 You can see it makes a man anx- ious to make his checks mount up as fast as possible. We hate short week broke up by holidays Tn that small town where you got your hair cut when everybody puts off getting fixed up til Saturday night so as to bc sweet and tidy for Sunday. you didn't have much of a show You cant ex- pect much of hurry up job turned out in jiffy. so you don't want to bc too hard on that poor chap.
 By the next time I'll have every trace of his rotten work reuovcd Even this time I've made yo,I lopk like gentleman again. All right. sir. Thank YOU. Always glad to sec you come in. But the next time you go upstate 70 New York Sun.