| Show FAITH lieve arh J to shai e with vas elin 0 vowing vengeance ahe faith of the newspaper reader is sometimes great and abiding but occasionally casio nally it leads him into errors A few weeks ago says messenger a london weekly journal published exclusively for ladies contained a letter from a lady correspondent asserting ser ting that vaseline as a shaving cream atas superior to any soap or cream that biad ever been invented this scarcely appears likely to be a very interesting topic for the gentler jrex but nevertheless many letters were published on the subject and finally it became an established truth among bearded women that vaseline was the very best article with which to supplant soap which it is said chaps and irritates the skin had this theory remained confined within the limits of the journal that gave it birth no harm might have been done but unfortunately several american journals of repute and standing ever ready to grasp a progressive innovation boldly announced that vaseline was the only article with which a man could comfortably remove his beard perhaps the readers of these papers tried it on a very cold morning or perhaps choir razors were blunt or perhaps and very much more likely the lady who asserted that she had removed her beard every coming for many years with the aid of vaseline was playing a little trick on the journal with which she corresponded doubtless she never suspected that powerful and influential dailies in america would proclaim aier method as an infallible one and now the result isa that old men middle aged men ancle youths across the atlantic are vowing vengeance against those who recommended such a painful experiment having a tooth drawn is a trifle compared to shaving with vaseline at least so the gentlemen across the atlantic say an important postscript dear mr hicks she 1 wrote I sorry that am what you ask I 1 can not grant I 1 can not become your wife bours sincerely ethel barrows then she added P S on second dear george I 1 think I 1 will thought do come to marry you up tomorrow morrow night and your own true ethel seo t hard on the farm hands these baided wire fences aint no good said tho farm hand 1 I havo one efera around tho place if I 1 biad my way why not inquired tho stranger cheap and strong and keep cattle in better than any thing else that may be replied the farm hand but then a feller cant sit down to rest on cm r f |
