Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1895 — Time Spent with the Barber. [ARTICLE]

Time Spent with the Barber.

“Speaking of barbers,” remarked the club kicker, although, to tell the truth, nobody had mentioned barbers, “I have just finished a fifty minutes’ siege In one of those infernal tonsorial establishments. Fifty minutes! Just think of it. What a lot of things a man might do during the time he spends waiting his turn in a barber shop before he even has a chance to get shaved. I’ll wager that on an average it takes 20 minutes of my time every day. Some days it’s probably less, and some days a good bit more. But we’ll say twenty minutes, anyhow. Now, I get shaved every day. There are 365 days in the year, and 20 minutes every day would make—let me see—that would make 7,300 minutes in a year. Sixty minutes to an hour would be a little over 121 hours, and 24 hours in a day would make— Great Scott! if anybody had told me I spent over five days every year In a barber shop I would hate called him a fool.”— Philadelphia .Record*