Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — His Job Blew Through His Whiskers. [ARTICLE]

His Job Blew Through His Whiskers.

A story is told of a Philadelphia hotel keeper. Employed as a porter about the hotel was an elderly man named Mike, who had been an attache of the hotel for eight years. His most prominent feature and one of which he was very proud, was a beard of luxuriant growth. One day last week the proprietor of the house was pacing the lobby when Mike happened to pass. The proprietor was in a very disagreeable frame of mind, and he stopped and looked at Mike with an evil light in his eye. “Come here, you,” he yelled at the porter. “How long have you been here?” “Nigh onto eight years, sor." “Well, you’ve been here long enough. You needn’t come back to-morrow. I’m tired of seeing you about.” The pool porter was thunder-struck. He went to his friend, the- day clerk, and told him all about it. “What’ll 01 do?” said he. “Oi’ve a woife and family tur t’ support, an’ Oi can’t get another job.” The clerk thought for a minute and then said suddenly: “I have it. You go home and shave off your beard, and then go to the boss and tell him you heard he needed a porter.” Mike followed the advice next day and secured the situation, becoming his own successor. The proprietor has never suspected the trick.