Show I WHEN HE BECOMES A MAN I Experiences of the Youth Learning to Shave Many perSOns have taken to the habit of shaving not only that but shavIng themselves This Is done for varldus reasons Primarily perhaps the purpose pur-pose is to remove he beard from the face That xplnatIon is thrown In for fear some reader may thInk a point has been overcokro But there are other reasons why men shave themselves them-selves rather than have their wives Or i r the barber do the work for them One of the most common reasons Is economy Persons of an economical turn of mInd figure out how they save so much money a year by becoming their own barber In some families the head of the house i th barber for the whole family There are other persons who I say they shave themsoives tor the sake of timethe capital of the unemployed Then contIience enters Into the matter mat-ter Imy persons argue It Is more connmient to be ones own barber because be-cause Inthls case one can barber him 5elf1henevcr tie feels like It ow there are a numberof hints and suggestions that can be offered to a young man ho expects to beat the I barbei by do1ng tle work himself or even the nan who has been at it for I g It fJ tome months It is not the purpose of this article to divulge these hints for that would be taxing an unfaIr advnnt age of the barber who keeps ohop Icr the purpose of making a livIng Another reason Is that the wrIter does not know much about the hints that woudbe helDf1 to the uninItiated In learning how to shave Of course every shaver has hIs own I peculiar experiences just in the same degreeas It Is cralmed every clog has I hIs day It Is I qUite certain a razor has I its off days The 1irst attempts of the novice to shave himself are par I tiouiarl interesting The razor seems jto enjoy th jGe for ever and anon It eapresecs its satlHfaction by pricking tljettdent In different tOtS along the I sUrface of the face whelC the blade Is made to skim Again there comes the stickinpolnL This may be explain edby saying the razor frequently prac ticailytlemonbtrntes Hs ability to stick in theshi lThls Is ail very painful but It Is ltructIeneertheless NOr to thc mateul ill1avlr there Is toe admonltlon rhIh shciuld be print Id and hung up In front otthe glass where th hav1ng Is done ThIs Is Never shavevhen ImglY N o mattet I how an ry the shaver may be the razor never serins to appTeelate that fact The razor rather SEems to like to increase the humor of the situation situa-tion by taking a slice of ones face just to strengthen the argument Never Hhave when aary When the shaver Isout of JIUmor the razor does seem u usualb baky It pulls and 1110undenr I arCund over the face as If it I had no ptirticular object on earth other I than to eJasperate slash and slice In ishaving the chin the novice stiouid be particularly carEful for to lose ones I chin by a too hasty mroke of the razor wOuld be deeply embarrassIng Then agaIn it opens the way for repented interrogatives US to whether the chinless chin-less one has been In a light Vhen a dwnwardftIO of the razor catches jn the 1le1ly portion of the chIn for a good deeicut the effect Is to bring forth a1uvl of paIn It one Is careful and take his tlme nedidents Should be mlnlmize That haste make a t J waste Is mot frequently exemplified when the nov e iiftrinc to shave Blood is frequently wasted by undue haste in this work The young man when he begIns the work of S 1ylng himself should In ad dltlon to n firstclass razargurohasc a good shaving strop When one begIns to strop a rnzor Ot course he alwa tI tries to db Jt jcst like the barber He soen finds out that lit requires a bit of experience to do It that way rr and while he Is getting the exp rlence the strop suffers adtr1ngly The way the poor heather 1olaecriteij Is a sIght to behold After about three or four at texpt the strop I ready to he made Into shoestrhtigis It Is uSqa1y vise to lay about a quarter for thc first horsehide horse-hIde One never reaches the top Vounti of the kidder in tiny kind or fame In one bound So it Is in thIs case Of coursl the razor vi1I hurt a little dud remind the novice 13f n rake and all that but do net become incensed at the razor If used properly It m not cdt you but a few times to the shave org or-g e other thaii gentle pulls |