Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1905 — The Tip That Hurts. [ARTICLE]

The Tip That Hurts.

“Some day,” said a man who was giving off that peculiar odor which advertises only the barber shop—“some day I hope to meet somebody who can tell me why the tip to the broom boy aggravates me worse than any tip I part with and why I never have the courage of my convictions in connection with it I suppose it’s because I feel that after I’ve paid 25 cents for a hair cut and 15 cents for a shave and have been wheedled into a shampoo I didn’t want I’ve spent enough. Hundreds of times I’ve promised myself that I would not be .whisked at the barber’s, and hundreds of times I’ve found myself being whisked, while I spun round slowly like a lay figure on a revolving disk. There are some things in this world I can do for myself and want to do. I can reach for my hat without knocking anything off the mantelpiece In the next room, and I can put on my overcoat and light my cigar and brush my clothes and open a door. Now and then I can close a door, too, and that’s an accomplishment Whatever there Is about It I begrudge that broom boy tip more than I do the contribution I put on the plate for foreign missions, knowing, as I do, that some of our home missions are starving to death.**—Providence Journal. The Standing Coin. Take a long narrow strip of paper and upon it placs a five cent piece in an upright position. Take the end of the paper in the left hand and strike It rapidly and forcibly with the right. Give a sudden pull and you have the paper In your hand, white the coin stands In the position It did before. It would seem as If the coin must fall, but try It, and'with a little practice you will be able to accomplish-the trick.