| Show HAS SUA VED MEN Dave pave Berkheimer Cleveland Is Oldest Barber in the United States and Has Worked For Sixty Years Cleveland Juno June 5 Though 6 Though It watho way was tho time when tho the evening rag rush u usually bj began nn Dave Davo Berkheimer I lights in his barber bar bar- turned low tho time an her ber shop moved a char chair ll outside on tho the sidewalk lit his pipe and leaned back contentedly Davos Davo's shop Is Js rl right ht there thero opposite i the hotel In Cunho Cuyahoga n Falls Youve You've soon It lots of times If It you ou over getto get gel gelto to to tho the Falls Fall 15 Its It's tho the smallest barber buber barbershop shop In Summit and antime and the tho oldest old old- est but est but It t has the tho biggest gest rod red and whito polo In front you ou over saw Came Camo Jack Bouron Douron In from tho the tarmon farmon farm tarm farmon on which hos ho's hired out for the time sum sum- summer mer with a 0 beard on his fa fahad face fl that had bad been growing exactly one ono week wook before Ho lie had a flower lower In h his s buttonhole and ho wore wor a Q palo blue necktie n e Ill 11 Try Ont One of ot Your Sh Shave c Guess Ill I'll try one ono of ot your shaves tavo I Po Top PoP p. p ho he remarked hesitating at the tho doorstop Sot ot this evening you won wont won't t ob observed ob- ob served d Do Dave vc tho the reason I won wont won't t Aln Aint t this this a regular barber shop and aln aint n t you a regular ulal barber and aint aln t you gotta otta shave anybody that's got gat ot the price rice And If Ir that's that's all that's wrong I I.- I. j o of or you ou I kin show Ive I've got that all rl hL L Ij boy said D Dave a. a e. e I want to work work when I want to and not when other uthel people want me to Ill I'll toll tell you vou something I started In this busi bual- business ness noes S when whon I was 13 years ears old Im I'm 73 now non That t makes mattes 00 60 years at the strop Im I'm tho the oldest harbor barber in tho United Slates Slate And all this time 1 Vv Ive ye been heen working thinking I had to Won Well Ive I've Just decided decided that I dont don't havo o to and I aint going to Good night Oh o 0 Dave I Ins lias ns Davo o retired rt Not ot a bit of ot it IL That's merely hla Imis Declaration of or Independence Actually I Je's Jes working harder than over But nut he says sn's Ive ryO saved a bItor bitof bit bitof of or mone money and Im I'm Im I'm beholden to no man And nd front from now on Im I'm going to work till I get tired and when I got sot tired Im I'm going to lay off oft If It the tho whole shops shop's full of ot l people eople Yos Yes you bet Ivo Ive shaved some sonio men in m my da day I figure that Ive I've worked on faces and heads a year on an average R for 60 years cars That makes It run rim upward of or for tor m my GO CO years dont don't it Has tho the human face undergone any changes es Well I should ea say It has And Ind not to for 1 tho the belter better either cither It Teems to me mt You dont don't SIC see an any rug S' rugged d. d strong faces any more moro like you rOll used to in Men Face Mens faces used to be hard and i big and tho the hair on tho tiro top of ot tho the head was as thick as It was on the tho chin and Jaws Men ten are getting to bemore bo be more moro like women Their tacos laces aro are big enough sometimes but they're soft soU and kind hind of ot flabby that labb-that that old hardness Isn't there an any more The hairs hair's all allon allon allon on time the face and not riot on the head Thero has been a n change In the cheek bones Most ost young fellows nowadays nowadays now now- scorn seem to havo kind hind of or high check hones Danes They dont don't look no more like 1110 their than a cat at ms dosa does dos like lIko a 1 tI tiger ger Ivo Ive figured that we can blame the thc hats for the bald heads head Men ren didn't used to bo be so careful about covering their heads up with tight air straw and the tho of ot that In Sn the hot sum sum- mer They used to wear hats that let lct plenty plent of ot air In and that's what hair needs morn anything else never como corao out If you keep It clean clenn and give It plenty of ot air Ill Ills C s Steady Theres There's no unsteadiness about Dave for all his hlo 60 GO years Joe at tho the strop One Hs favorite jokes Is to hot bot et a man that ho hC cannot hold holt a a. pin in his hand arm stretched horizontally for tor ten minutes It sounds Rounds oas easy but did you evor try It Few men can do It Dave can an n. n His blue eyes aro are bright and sharp harp and his step quick Theres There's a sll slight ht stoop to him him but but think of or the tho hes he's bent bont over o Dave Davo smokes a good deal Also he drinks two drinks two beers a day My own Idea about this drink business business business busi busi- ness he lie says Is that tho the more you say to a 0 man that ho he take tako It the harder hell he'll go after atter It Now NonI Now Non I was going to say that Id I'd drank all 1111 my life but never had been drunk drunk- But Dut I was once Recall Lincoln Incident Lets see see see-It It was after Lincoln's second election election the the time he was at Hudson I wont over there thore with a lot lotof lotof of or other fellows to soo Lincoln go through And I recollect wo we took tool a bottle alon along Yes Yea I was pretty well corned up that time I had the bottle bottlo when Lincoln's train came In ye 0 Abe I yells waving both hands ono one holding the bottle too He waved back lau laughed hed and said something I dont don't know what whal though Ive I've studied over It lots of times I wish Id I'd heard It for I bet you a cookie It was something good lie He used to got off oft soma somo pretty rich things Barbering Isn't a trade trade its Its It's a pro pro- I learned my trade trado In Germany Germany Ger Ger- many and I can do surgery Why I J can cnn bleed a 1 man with the tho best of ot doctors And I know all the tho diseases of tho the face ace and what's good for tor them How flow many barbers do Imo nowadays ys But they ought to |
