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Show I 4- HE TAKES EVERYTHING BARBER SHOP OFFERS EVEN TO PALM READING I . y I BY AL WARDEN) The man from Iowa.' who confided tlo a clerk at one of Ihq local hotols ;ihe other day that he thought Rex feach was a summer resort, was out-frcakrd, out-frcakrd, outclassed, left, groggy and banging on the ropes yesterday by rii.-m from Iron county, out own state. ; He wandered into one of the local bn), or shops with the rust of Iron county Mill clinpinrc to his boot, with a willingness to be shown anything , new in the tonsorlal craft and ; ,week"s growth of stout alfalfa stub Ible on his chin Tp to our town, which Is some town they have everything b minute ahead in barber conveniences," he J confided to "Slim." to whom v. as en-:rns;o(i en-:rns;o(i the task of revealing his fea- lures once more. "Yes. slree' Hot and cold water, running, towels n everything. " TAKES IN EVERYTHING I He took durh near every soil of 'treatment ''Slim" had to offer and came back strong at the end ot each i round. It was one of those rainy afternoons and he couldn't think of! a better place to pass it than in a bather's chair "Have you any baseball stars in ' this berg'"' chirped the man from I Iron county, TIPsay we have." replied "Slim."! ' Well, yu know we have a team i down home that could wallop any I team Ty Cobb over saw. I tell ye it is some team, and the way the ; boys slap out the home runs is ! something nigh short of marvelous. : They hit 'em like sluggers of th.--Kuth !pH. and boy-- they do travel.1 " nd ou know baseball is a mere! side Issue i e have a mil slinger down there that has anything in I this neck of 'he country 'cheated a mile. He sure swings a wicked left. 1 Talk about yer Demp.-ey's, s;iy this, kid has a wallop thai would have put Old Jc;.s out in one round "But Dempsev is heavyweight title- holder," boilers "Slim." Thai makes no difference This I kid only weighs 158 pounds, but man, he carries the most w Icked uppercuts you ever saw framed Why, I really j believe ho could defeat Jack John I son If the two were to meet." If you want to hear the latest chat-jter. chat-jter. the barber shop is the place And arguments, say you could tell a bird thaj you could still purchase a I pair of kicks for eighteen iron men and he would laugh at you. Birds like the gent from lion county nr.- every day visitors Si me of 'em are men who don't gi e a dcru for a dime. Yep. they even get their shoes shined. And this Iron County chap "when 'a pretty manicurist took her seat at the side of a customer next chair (over, the chap was moved to curiosity curi-osity and later to remark. ANOTHER CHANCE ' What's the' young woman charge tor fortune telling Darned if I don't want the whole treatment, no matter; what it costs." Hand-holding Will be the next step to perfection in the barber parlors j of the city. Some of the shops have i even gone so far as to purchase 1 talking machines to entertain the ! customers during their spare minutes in the tonsorlal palaces. Perhaps j Ihe next step will be to engage ' shimmy" dancers and the like to add a little jazz to the occasion. Utrfe Joe, the bootblack was one of the first entertainers to seek a po.-iiion in the parlors But since j Joe has been on the Job he has seen many other stunts come and go. "Demure misses, keen at holding hands, would aid any shop." say the wise owls. And so with all of the changes ; and the like in the barber shop world, fortune telling niay be adopted as a part of barber college curri- ! CUlum, but Ihe idea Is young, even ; for 1921. say.--. Slim, who ought to j know for he's been in the barber business ever since shaving became . as common as Saturday night. And 00 top of this the gent from Iron count secouded the motion-- and putting one and one together well j they undoubtedly are tight If you don't believe it. try a hand hdld, or a fortune- telling bee, and perhaps you will agree. |