UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 9 January 1919, Page 3

UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

In a little town on the Main Trunk line, which is lighted by electricity, a barber was shaving a customer the other evening. Suddenly the electric current was cut off and the barber and his customer were in darkness. Half the customer's face had been shaved, the other half was in lather. He sprang from the chair, and in the Cimmerian gloom his speech became lurid, as he wanted to know how he could go down the street half shaved. -The invisible barber suddenly appeared illuminated by a match. It is unofficially reported that the shaving was completed by the customer holding lighted vestas, while " the barber Kept on sharing."