| Show BARBERSHOP LITERATURE College Professor Complains of the Sporty Style of Newspapers Why is it asked a mildmannered college professor of a friend by whose side he sat waiting his turn in a barber shopwhy is it that barbershops barber-shops of every grade and in every locality lo-cality always provide for the delectation delecta-tion of their patrons the most lurid of sporty publications I dont look like a sport do I And the friend looked him over and with a drop of the corners cor-ners of his mouth and an elevation of his eyebrows agreed that he didnt Yet continued the professor whenever when-ever I sit down In a barbers chair the barber immediately thrusts Into my hands a sheet of pink prurience or come less highly colored or more openly indecent illustrated abomination abomina-tion Some few hotel barber shops have a stray copy of a daily newspaper lying around but I have yet to find aba a-ba ber shop where sporty papers are not the chief literary entertainment provided patrons with which to beguile be-guile the tedious waits for a chance at the ohair Is there any reason for it or is it just a trade custom for barbers to subscribe for such publications when they open their business just as they order soap and shaving papers I Is It that all the thousands of mild mannered everyday citizens who are not sports shave themselves and there is therefore no need of catering to the literary taste of the casual customer cus-tomer of that kind But if as I imagine im-agine is the case the barbers customers custo-mers are men of all classes and call ibers why dont the barbers provide something to balance the spectacular effect at least of the sporty paoers that stare at one from every chair A copy of some good monthly magazine would not cost as much as a sporting weekly for instance and would be really re-ally a treat for dozens of customers where the superabundance of pictorial v ¼ M14 t 4 I ri Lc11iU VI v V ife 4 ci f1O N ect < c l 7c r ci t t y t PAIR AS A FOREST FLOWER abominations are really offensive But I didnt intend to suggest how a barber bar-ber should run his business I only started to voice my wonder as to just why barber shops and lurid sporty papers should always have to be associated asso-ciated together in ones Impressions Can you think of one without thinking I of th other |
