Show I I Broken Glass For Razors Chicago TimesHerald TimesHeral I The natives of our new territory Puerto Rico have no need to buy soap for the wooded country abounds in plants whose leaves and bulbs supply most fully the place of that indispensable indispen-sable article Among the best of these I is the soap tree so called though it is I soap more a bush than a tree Its bulb i I I when rubbed on wet clothes makes a snowwhite lather which has a odor lilje old brown Windsor soap The Puerto Ricans who are all from the highest to the lowest great dandies in their way make soap out of cocoanut cocoa-nut oil and homemade lye and a fine soap i is smooth and fragrant This cocoanut oil soap is used for shaving When a man wishes to have a shave in the morning he starts out with his cocoanut co-coanut shell cup and his donkeytail brush and bottle I is never any trouble trou-ble to find a empty bottle in Puerto Rico Cuba Jamaica or almost any of the larger West Indies islands even in remote spots in the mountains At least twenty generations of thirsty people peo-ple have lived there and thrown away the bottles The man carries no mirror he is too poor to own such a luxury Not one house in twenty in Puerto Rico has even the very cheapest lookingglass But generously rich nature provides the mirror as well as the soap The man goes to some convenient pool in the mountain stream where the water is quite still there is his mirror He breaks his bottle on a stone and deftly picks out a sharp piece of suitable size Then he lathers his face profusely and begins to scrape away with his piece of glass which in his hands works as well as thebest steel razor A cut or even a slight scratch is extremely rare as a result of this al fresco form of shaving |