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Show NOT A BEARD IN TOWN. ' A Specimen of Southern Humor. THE MYSTIC CIRCLE OF THE SLICK Compelling People to get Shaved aud Have Their flair Out. A stranger vt-iiting Sylvania right now would le arirariiugly inipreMjted with the Bimilarity in appearance of all its ninli-In ninli-In habitants, and he won hi have tnt'ii much uiore amused had he witnessed j the process by means of which they all reached this state of common brother hood. It was so dull the first part of the week that even the honorable and time honored "Sylvania (Jas company" Im-gan Im-gan to show signs of falling into innocu ous dUtiso and ceased to furnish its iiiem bers with the usual enlivening elixir of mirth. Of course something had to be done; sou few of the members decided that they would shave up clean and have their heads clipped. Our barber Mr. H. It. Kemp, did tho work up in : rare and rapid style, tuid the boys wero so well pleaded with their now selves j that they magnanimously resolved U : "do" the town up likewise; so out they started on a "clipping" expedition. The first victim who walked into the hands of-the spoilers was a young man with curly hair and quite a long beard, of which he was very proud. Ho "kicked" "kick-ed" and a wore, but it was no use. He was escorted up stairs, and in a fow minutes, min-utes, by virtue of his whiLe head and : shining laco, was a member of the Mystic Mys-tic Circle of the Siick. Then the fun j commenced in real earnest. No one was I 6pared. Young men, old men and boys, just as they happened to come along, were gath-i gath-i ered into the fold. Some Bubmitied meekly to tho inevitable; some pleaded piteously or threatened prosecution; some protested and struggled violently; but the same fate awaited them all alike each came out with a slick face and a hairless head. When the "subject" bo-I bo-I came too obstreperous one of the coui- mi I tee took the clippers and mowed a : furrow down the center of bis head, j This always had a very quieting effect, i and the operation was then performed without any further trouble. One of our lawyers escaped several times by fast running, but finally came out and gracefully grace-fully surrendered; and ho, too, now wears a 'hito head. Another lawyer outran an official of the county, and managed to save his scalp for a wlule. The ouly man in the town who did not escape If escape it can be called was a j young clerk who, when the canvassing committee was out on the war path, slipped upstairs and was quickly clipped, thus taking fate by the forelock, as it were. Everybody is alike down here now, and it is a rare sight to see a citizen citi-zen with hair on his head. One man in this unique condition came In town yesterday, yes-terday, and, from the way he was stared at and followed around, one would have thought he was John L. Sullivan him- self. Our barber waa into the clique and did all the work for nothing. Of course he will not do anything more In the bair cutting line for several months to come, I but probably he didn't think of that, or was willing to Bubmit to the Bacriiice for the fun. Sylvania (Ga.) Cor. Atlanta Constitution. |