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Show POWDER HABIT AMONG MEN. Old-timer Not In Love with Finicky Hablti of Today, ' "In my young days," said an old . ,- gentleman, "it was considered effem- Inato for a man to use face powder. Tho only kind of powder we used wus what wo put In our pistols : hut nowadays now-adays It's nothing to soo u .voung fellow fel-low emerging from a barber shop as pink and white as a rose. In fact, Bomo young men, who haven't wives I from whom to steal It, keep n box of It on tholr dressing rases, soft, white, flowery, Bweot-smelllng stuff, to use after shaving. "When I was young a scrape lu soap , mp and cold wator, with a stinging nppll- ' s cation of bay rum afterword, was con- J oldored luxurious and dandified j enough, but now an average barber Insists on giving you a massage with your shavo and makes ou as velvety ! and looly as a lG-yearold schoolgirl. And tbat isn't all; I see In tho stores j that thoy aro selling bugo French pow- . dor puffs tho size of a plato with ' which' to Huff your body all over with i dainty talcum after a both I would I havo thought these were for tho ladlcB and would havo turned my face ills-creotly ills-creotly the other way If I hadn't seen j two husky chaps Investing In them. "Uy gad, sir, tho Ilrst thing wo know tho gentlemen will bo carrying fancy work around wltb them as they did In tho days of Louis, and they'll all he so dainty and sweet and pretty that no girl will bo able to icslst them. ('Inline ('Inl-ine a whist. and s da 1 need It." |