Speaking of Chicago recalls to ring. an episode that happened to in that city some time ago. Like most of your readers who Ko fon leave, and who have been sed the comprador> pay all T used to fin myself either without a cent in cash of a heavy roll of notes. I was on my way to a luncheon, intending to cash a cheque while down town, The man T was with suggested that should visit the barber ex route, which we did.
He cut my hair and wed me, he gave me and while' this was in progress bootblack "shined" me and manicurist made my hand look pretty. Now, all that I had intended having done to me was! the removal of the growth on my chin, which in Shanghai you can get done very well or very badly, as the case may be, for half a dollar Mex. But th tent barber sicelded that I possessed far too ible a thatch to neglect. He edu certain tonic, and, after cutting my hair, procected to gi me what he called a "treatment rubbing in some stuff that, burned so badly that 1 told him to wash if off again: this he did. Then something else went on and was rubbed in, but no sooner had he rubbed it in than he grabbed a wet towel, damped my head and! proceeded with all his strength to rub it cut again. At long lart, the shoes "ziving forth a Iuatre like a looking glass, equalled only by the sheen-on my finger nails, with my face sevaped. and greased and
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