Easy Shaving.

Patea Mail, 11 April 1882, Page 3

Easy Shaving.

New; Boeougiis ? have- to. settle .little questions which are really s big in consequences. If looked.’,a little question when a Patea barber erected a rainbowcolored pole opposite his shop,'"and asked .leave to suspend a sign-board from it across the footway. Councillors were divided in opinion, inost of them objecting to these, outstretched signs and painted wonders as likely to increase until they became ri serious eye-spre and a frequent ; obstruction. ,It was even said ,they might shut out the .view of Mount Egrnont. A.,solemn resolution was recorded against such devices across footways. ’ Observers at a distance laughed/ at it as if, the discussion, were an absurd joke and a waste of time. But wait till this troublesome little question arises in other now boroughs, and those observers will find that some small , questions are too serious to be settled with a grin. : The question came up again at the last meeting pf the Borough Council, .when;the energetic barber renewed)his application in a F; paodified form by asking for permission to erect ins sign-board across the footway for a • shortpromising to.remove it when required. But the Council would not sanction this thinrend-of-the-wedge experiment; and the riew sign-board is. left iri a state suspense, though not over the footway. The barber has.been clean shaved:ibyl the Borough Council. He might return the compliment , by hanging over his door an : affectionate invitation to Borough’Councillors thus :— ■ i , .What do you think i ! : I’l 1 shave you for nothing

'( ' And give you,some drink. ,’ Tbeisense in which this is to’be read depchds on the punctuation ; |jfof the story goes’ that another barber who put this, invitation over his door wag asked by a customer (after his shave) to bring ont -the drink. That barber took his customer to the door, and read the legend thus ; > s . ; ■ What! do you think I’D shave you for nothing, And give you some drink ? (“ Not for Joe.”) .