Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — BARBER WAS ON EASY STREET. [ARTICLE]

BARBER WAS ON EASY STREET.

But He Failed to Reassure the Nervous Customer. William De Long, Commissioner Dougherty’s right-hand man in the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, tells this: “There used to be a Dutch barber who kept a place in the city here. He had an assistant who was just about as Dutch as the boss, but the assistant thought the boss about tho meanest man on earth. Every time he got a customer in the chair he would tell him all about the boss. One day he had a man all fixed, face lathered, and head laid back. Then ho began his tale of woe as he stropped the razor: “ ‘Mine poss iss der meanest man. He charches me 10 cends if I cud a man und a quarter if I gash him." “The assistant went on stropping and the man in the chair was beginning to get uneasy, for it seemed to be a settled thing that every custimer would have something happen to him. He waited in silence. Presently the assistant resumed: “ ‘Pud I don’t care to-day.’ “ ‘Why?’ inquired the customer. “ ‘Pecause I vun fife dollars on der races yesterday and I mide as veil spend Id dat vay as any odder.’ "The customer suddenly remembered that he had to catch a train.” — New Times.