Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15

Kahn or Tamerlane Strengthening a hull
cityful
Also he applied the clippers to my
neck.
l would as lief, liefer, have a young
alligator applied to my neck as pair OF
BARRIERS clippers. There is something
srisly, gruesome. hidjus. horrendous and
generally clammy about the feel OF a bar
ber's clippers on the back of the human
neck that ought to make 'em a crime
punishable by both fine and imprison-
ment
This Philadelphia barber applied the
clippers to my neck because ne had not
the least intention of shaving my neck,
as per directions. He calmly stook it for
granted that l didn't know what L want
ed that in all likelihood L had but re-
Gently escaped from the violent ward o.
some nearby insane asylum. and there
fore could not possibly have the least
idea of what / sure-enough desired And
so he went ahead and did il his way de-
spite my maniacal protests.
The clippers on the-neck thing WASH [
tragical. because that could be stop
ped-and il was stopped with excessive
swiftness, if You are crediting the pres
ent writer. But the lost side locks con-
stituted another proposition. They had
to be grown all over again, and growing
side locks is an operation requiring as
much time and patience and scientific
knowledge as intensive farming.
/ fear me that when | looked up from
the newspaper which | was reading and
saw that which this barber person had
done unto mel fear me. yea, know, tina
/ said things unto him that must have
bounced off his tympani with a loud and
resounding report.
But / figured 1t this way: 1t was my
hair; l was entitled to my fool ideas as
to the way / wanted nv hair amputated;
II was my coin that was to drop into the
BARRIERS till after the shearing operation
was all over Therefore, meseemed.
sure was entitled to have the thing done
after my own plans, specifications and
blue prints, even if l had desired the
barber to stake me to a haircut thai
would have made me look like a Papuan
pirate ON a hasheesh jamboree.
And now: Tailors-
] suppose that L know suppose tina,
! am on really buddy-like terms with
100 taiIors between Eastport. Me-, and
Los Angeles, Cal Regular fellers. all OF
them: human beings; good people, al
the WAY through. Safe and sane spend.
ers.. generally speaking: likers of the
good things of life; clubabie; up to the
minute-'nd so on nd SO on.
But-again.
x
This man" tmeaning YOU. says the
tailor to himself in such circumstances
This man isn't bad sort at ALL The
trouble with him is that he is suffering
from congenital paranoia. OF. if not from
that, then hallucinatory insanity or some
thing of the sort. He thinks that he
wants what he says he wants; but he
doesn't 1t is pure imagination, or wrong
sheadedness on his part. if. as l say, it's
not actual bughousepess- I'll indulge the
critter. I'll let him rave. Then I'll do IL
my way"
That's how 1 figure out the tailor con-
veres with himself when you're asking
him to do the thing your way. (No I
haven't said all tailors; but some; oh, yea,
some and theno
For illustrative purposes, again:
Me-Let me see some of your finished
worsted things; something with an un-
obtrusive pin stripe.
The Tailor-The unfinished worsted IL