ony Retires

ome time ago Baron Von Lodge was the head of a small country near Switzerland known as Lilliland.

The Baron always liked to make a dignified appearance, so he arranged for Tony, the barber in Lilliland, to come to the castle and cut his hair once a month. Tony had been the Baron’s barber for over thirty years.

For the past several years, Tony asked permission of the Baron to bring his daughter, Danielle, to the castle with him. The Baron agreed and said that it would be fine.

Over the next two years, Danielle had become an attractive woman who was learning the trade from her father. Then Tony mentioned to the Baron that he was going to retire at his seventieth birthday that was at the end of the year. He asked that Danielle be given an opportunity to continue in his place doing the Baron’s haircuts. Tony said that he had been explaining very carefully to Danielle exactly how the Baron liked his hair cut.

“She now knows that you like a cut which is more like a trim once a month. The appearance should be that the cut would not look like the hair was just cut, or that the hair was too long and appeared neglected. Once a month is the happy medium for a haircut,” said Tony.

The Baron was somewhat hesitant about the idea and said that he would like to think about it for a few days.

The Baron asked his fiancée, Lady Angela, about the idea of Danielle replacing her father, Tony, when he retired.

Lady Angela said that the Baron was falling into the old notion that men cut men’s hair, and women cut women’s hair. “This is just false. Hair is hair, and that is it,” she said.

“Then what will people think when they learn that a woman is cutting the Baron’s hair?” he asked. Lady Angela said, “If it is a good haircut, then it is a good haircut, whether the barber is a man or woman.”

Professor Hamblin, the Baron’s chief advisor, said that he wanted to be included when the barber came to the castle again. “We all want to look our very best at all times,” he added.

Lady Angela had a smart eye in keeping the Baron looking the way he should. The Baron knows that he has a treasure in Lady Angela’s opinion on many, many things.