| Show UW b KEITH EITH SAT SA AT DOWN ON A CHICAGO BARBER X n his way home from his recent trip t Jp in Europe David Keith stopped while in at the Palmer House and while there had bad occasion to visit the tte barber shop shor and get shaved He Re was no sooner in the chair than the barber began pouring a tale of woe Into life mear eat ear wishing lf out of this beastly country count 1 dad and back In dear old Naples where the sky was so blue the water so and anti life one sweet and blissful holiday The Silver King man heard the story to the end He did this for two tito rea rca reasons sons sorn In the first place he wished to get the barbers barb rs full size and In the next place he feared that if he spoke he would get his mouth full of lather But when the croaker finally ran down Mr r Keith said to him You seem s em to be a barber Where did you ou learn the trade I 1 started in Dresden Germany but butI I finished In this country And I suppose you have made some money out of the business Yes Ive made money but It has been hard Well now said Keith with that well known twinkle In his eye let me give you a little pointer Just bundle up your goods and get over to Naples just as fast as you can cati c n I was there not a month ago I got a shave there thereafter thereafter thereafter after the barber bar er was through with me meI meI meI I felt as though rd Id been scraped with an oyster shell hell and then I was wa given water In a tin pan to wash myself In If It go to Naples and open a decent shop It would not Dot take you long longto to get all the work of or all the travelers anyhow I 1 saw some other things in Naples that I 1 like very well Mr lr Keith continued while the crowd in the shop listened That water you talk about the doctor told me not to drink a drop of water from the time I struck Italy till I got out of or It I 1 saw a wo woman woman man roan hitched up with a heifer belCer and pull pullIng pullIng Ing ins a loaded wagon through the streets of Naples I saw women with feet and legs bare to the knee shoveling coal and I was besieged with beggars on every street corner If It that is the kind of at life you are looking for you are wasting your time in America and I would advise you ou to lose no time in getting back to Naples Naple It is 15 needless to say that the Ne Neapolitan had nothing further to say Sly on the subject |
