MADE HIM UNDERSTAND.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 13, 1 April 1893, Page 312

MADE HIM UNDERSTAND.

He entered the barber shop, and glancing about, stepped up to the nearest vacant chair. Before seating himself he addressed the barber in the following words : • My dear sir, before submitting myself to your professional care I desire to call your attention to a few facts of considerable interest. lam fully aware that lam a victim to the dandruff' habit and that it is rapidly sapping my reason, but singularly enough, I have come here with the fixed determination not to buy a bottle of your celebrated Dandruff Destroyer, and it will therefore be useless to continue the subject. • I realise that my hair is rapidly becoming thin. It has been falling out in handfuls for twenty-five years, and there’s just as much there as there ever was. And yet I am foolishly prepared to reject any proposition looking to the purchase of a case of your far famed hair restorer. * I know that my moustache is thin and faded, and yet nothing can overcome a superstituous prejudice I have against investing in a box of your widely-known moustache invigorator. * I have long nursed a shoeful of corns but no living man can make me consent to destroy them by means of your singularly efficacious Eradicator. ‘ I have long needed a bath but I have decided to put it off until next summer. ‘ In fact, my sole object in visiting you this morning is to get a plain haircut, shave and shampoo at your lowest prices. Do you apprehend ’’ But the barber was dead.