GETTING HIS HAIR OUT

Evening Star, Issue 18044, 11 August 1922, Page 6

GETTING HIS HAIR OUT

SHIP’S CAPTAIN AT ODESSA. ELABORATE RITUAL POE Id. After the story of Captain Craggs, of tnc Twickenham, the British steamer now in Port-, nobody will be looking to rob him of the big pile of Russian bank nni.es Hacked on (his in-'blc. “Turned out of the press like tram tickets,” be said, “ and of about the same size,” “And wealth little more,” he added laconically. The story certainly confirmed this. He wanted a 'haircut in Odessa, and after much inquiry discovered that an elaborate series of regulations h-adi to be obeyed before the shears were -applied. First he was required to pay 500 roubles* to a. girl at a desk, in return for which he was given a ticket. He then passed down a passage into a room where five or six operators were waiting in the hairdressing saloon.

After hawing .his hair cut he raked to be brushed down, but the operator emphatically shook his head. His guide aga.m came to the rescue, and the machinery of tho place wag once more set in motion, with the result that presently n. girl appeared with a. brash and brushed 1 his clothes. Turning to his guide again, Captain Craggs asked if a tip was admissible, and was told that the employees were forbidden to take money, but that if it was given without anyone else seeing it, it would be accepted. Ho then managed to tip the barber and tho girl 100 roubles each Before lie left, those two getting the money concealed about them in a flanh. Uuiside the building, said tho captain with a smile, he began to calculate the amount of the reckless spending he had iudulgedi in, and then discovered that ho had disbursed the munificent sum of one penny!