Show FABLE CARRIES MORAL LESSON LEARNED BY PATRON OF BARBER SHOP sage who looked betimes at the mirror had reason to congratulate himself that the experience had been his HI now it fell on a day that I 1 entered tho the establishment of a tonsorial artist which Is being interpreted a barber shop says saya a writer in tho the advance and I 1 sat and waited till tho the barber with a loud voice cried next and I 1 seated myself in his chair and he wielded over me divers deadly weapons and therewith he cut my hair and trimmed my beard and I 1 sat and ad looked at myself in the mirror and I 1 saw myself in a great bib and tucker with patches of hair falling failing down the front of the same and reflecting ting itself in the glass and what he was doing to me I 1 saw as in a glass darkly and what tie no was saying to me was many things on divers topics tor for he was waa a man of fluent speech and after I 1 had been shorn both as to head and board beard he be passed his hand band over my head and said thy scalp is not very clean thou hast need of a shampoo and I 1 consented and he soaped my head and washed it and rubbed it and twisted it upon my neck until it was nigh unto break ing off then he passed his hand abrass across my head and he said thy hair across thy head grows thin let me rub into thy scalp some of 0 my famous hair restorer it will make hair grow upon the top of a cowhide trunk but I 1 said unto him 1 I am not a cowhide trunk and he sald said thou wilt soon be as bald as one it if thou apply not my famous hair restorer and 1 asked Speak est thou as the friend of humanity or as a man who hath bath hair restorer for sale and he answered 1 I speak as a friend of humanity nevertheless tor for the hair restorer and rubbing in thereof thou pay to me the fourth part of a dollar in addition to w what hat thou already me now it came to pass as lie he these words I 1 looked in the glass and behold he stood behind me e with the bottle in fix his hand and with his left hand spread ready to rub it in and I 1 saw in the glass his eager face and above it his own head and he leaned Is forward as he spoke so that I 1 saw in the glass the top of his head and behold it was bald then I 1 unto him and said oh thou hou friend of humanity who bellest hair restorer and thy soul tor for the fourth part of a dollar keep thou thon thy medicine and use ilse it upon thine own head tor for I 1 have hare ten times as much hair on the outside of my head as thou hast and much more within it aana and he was wroth and he combed my hair with fury and dug the bristles of the brush into my scalp and added a dime to ury my bill nevertheless my heart rejoiced that I 1 had spoken unto him as I 1 did then said bald I 1 to my soul I 1 will take heed to my ways lest I 1 become as he ha for I 1 go forth among men and ask them to buy of me wisdom and virtue and righteousness so will I 1 pray night and day unto the god of heaven that I 1 may be able to recommend among men the truth which god bath revealed unto me and that no man reproach eth me with the baldness of mine own soul so shall I 1 learn wisdom from the folly of the tol tonsorial artist |