Show TAKEN ON FAITH men alio have tried to shave with vaseline vowing vengeance the faith of the newspaper reader is sometimes great and abiding lut occasionally casio nally it leads him into errors A few ago says the galbignani mes seng cr a london weekly journal published exclusively for ladies contained a letter from a lady correspondent asserting that vaseline as a shaving cream was superior to any soap or cream that had ever been invented this scarcely appears likely to be a very interesting topic for the gentler sex 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 aliis 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 their razors were blunt or perhaps and very much more likely the lady alio asserted that she had removed her beard every morning for many years with the aid of vaseline was playing a little trick on the journal with she corresponded doubtless she never suspected that powerful and influential dailies in america would proclaim her method as an infallible one and now the result is that old men middle aged men ana youths across the atlantic are vowing vengeance against those who recommended such a painful experiment having a sound tooth drawn is a trifle compared to shaving with vaseline at least so the gentlemen across the A laatze sav |