The Latest In Tonsorial Stylings By George Underhill I got my hair cut a few weeks ago, and the person cutting it did a pretty good job. The barber can’t make me look like Brad Pitt because appear- ance-wise she doesn’t have much to work with. Even so, it’s possible to make me look worse if given a bad haircut. The worst hair cut I ever received was in Orleans, Massachusetts, while on holidays. There was a single barber in the shop and no customers, but he asked me to wait while he “Finished picking the wood ticks off my dog.” You might well say I should have walked out right then, and you would be cor- tect. I can’t imagine what made me stay. I received a haircut that looked like I had just joined the marines. Shaved off on the sides and real short on the top. I paid him, too. What the heck was wrong with me? I miss the old timey barber shops. When I was a kid, all the male relatives of my family went to Bernie, a slim Italian man with a pencil thin mous- tache. There was a long mirror behind the chair, and in front of it, on shelves, was a marvelous collection of oils, balms, salves and unguents in a rainbow of colours. I remember Vitalis, which stung a little when rubbed into the scalp because it was almost entirely alcohol. I remember Wildroot Cream Oil, too, which had a radio jingle: Get Wildroot Cream Oil Charlie, It keeps your hair in trim. Get Wildroot Cream Oil Charlie, It’s made with soothing Lan-O-lin. and... Brylcream, a little dab’Il do ya Brylcream, you’ ll look so debonair, Brylcream the girls will pursue ya, Put a little Brylcream in your hair. I never got any of this stuff on my hair. I was a kid and only men who needed to attract women dared put this stuff on their hair. Bernie came to the house to cut my grandfather’s hair, and I think it was there where my mother conveyed the instructions on how my hair should be cut when I went into his shop. She wanted me to have a ‘whiffle’, that’s what it was called. Today, I believe, it’s called a brush cut (Continued on Page 6) Cwingate Gardens 613-476-6041 or 613-471-0429 Road 13 ilford Ontario * KOK 2P0 www.swingategardens.com nce L926 3073 County Rd. 10, PO Box 100, Milford, Ont. KOK 2P0 Tel: (613) 476-4547 Fax: (613) 476-3290 Specializing in Hard-To-Get Parts Auto Wreckers, New and Used Parts, Auto Service Hicks’ General Store Milford 613.476.5258 ATM Ice Groceries Gasoline Newspapers BBQ Propane Tank Exchange Hours Monday to Saturday - 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Sunday - 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Interac, Visa & MasterCard Accepted