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Show V READY WITH ADVICE WORDS OF WISDOM FROM THE 80U8ED ONE. Gentleman Temporarily Off the Water Wagon Referred Disparagingly to Object Which Offended His Sense of Beauty. Thcro entered a downtown barber Bhop, a day or two ago, a man who had climbed down from the water wagon to make room for thoso who desired seats. Ho came in and looked about htm genially. Tho boy came up to him to take his coat and hat, but he continued con-tinued to just look nbout him and size things up. He wore good clothes, and the eight-day growth on his countenance counten-ance didn't harmonize, but If he wanted want-ed a shave ho didn't seem In any rush nbout It. He ust looked around. In the third cbalr wns a man with ono of those big bushy, drooping wal-ruB wal-ruB mustaches. That mustacho soemed to catch tho eye of tho soused one. He walked ove,r to get n better look at It. "Why dontchuh cut it off?" he Inquired In-quired of tho barber. Then ho put a similar query to the man In tho chair. "Why don't you havo him chop It off, bo you'll look like somebody?" he suggested. sug-gested. The man in the chair looked around nt him: "What are you talkln' about?" he asked. "You know very well what I'm talk-In' talk-In' nbout," says tho soused one. "I'm talkln' nbout thut wild grass. Why don't you have tho man go over it with his scythe?" The barber wns disposed to be good nntured with tho visitor, ns he seemed harmless enough, and probably camo in to get work done. Therefore ho mado no effort to chase him away. The stranger w.ent on to observe: "It wouldn't take a minute for the man to clip it off."' "Say, vhnt are you talking about?" demanded the ono in the chair again. |