One of Oskaloosa’s prominent citizens while in Kansas City
recently, stepped into a barber shop presided over by a lady, and although he
did not need it; having been shaved the evening before, he thought he would try
the sensation of having a lady barber’s delicate touch remove the hirsute
adornment from his visage.
The lady asked him if he did not “want a hair cut,”
but he was after a shave and gently, but firmly said “no.” After shaving the gentleman
she smilingly asked if he did not want a face massage? Not being familiar with
that term he concluded to cut it out, and again answered “no.”
By this time the Oskaloosa man had become rattled to such an
extent that when she said: “Oil and bay rum on your hair?” he this time said
“y-e-s.”
He handed her a quarter — on the quiet we think it was a dollar — and she
handed him back two bits and a nickel, saying he had given her a half dollar,
but he thought it was a quarter and so informed her.
We don’t vouch for the correctness of this statement, but we
publish it as it was given to us by the gentleman himself, and, being in the
condition he was at that time he could not be expected to give a clear and
rational account of the occurrence. We promised not to tell it on him and we
don’t intend to.
This story appeared in “Yesteryears” in April 1988.
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