Show HORRORS 0 whal whether to you do dd it yu loara elt if or r G go to barber thore there A arc dancers there is a story told of a french nobleman who when he be had been shaved in the morning always heard the man mutter thank heaven on lea leaving ting the room lie he inquired the cause it is the m money oi cy my lord you always leave on your table over night forr for he was as a gambler every morning isay I 1 say io to myself 1 I must cut his throat la and nd am truly trula thankful to have escaped the temptation after which confession the he nobleman shaved himself it is quite extraordinary how many people and even poor people employ barbers to shave them partly from consciousness of their own clumsiness what do you give the man who shaves you inquired someone some one of macaulay several cuts on the face was his reply but chiefly from their inability to strop t the he razors if there isan is an industry that makes use of old strops with cuts I 1 shall be happy to supply them at wholesale prices says a writer in the loudon london don illustrated news that there 1 is no machine for stropping razors speaks volumes for the po power and intelligence of the barbers company nevertheless for fr a man who has always shaved hini himself self the employment of another person to io do it tor for him seems for the first time apart fro from inthe the humiliation of being taken by the nose rather a serious business one wishes to make great friends with him to start with but the usual methods D ds are closed to us genial coave conversation arsa is out of the question all the soap so ap is s on his side aud and we barent off offer him liquor it is the gt greatest aai e s t con f I 1 jle alence nce trick known iban to man the kr performer may be an expert br or he may not enot but it is certain that thatah at one time arxie or or another these gentlemen m must st have with been new to their trade with choln did they begin with whom indeed dead bead men tell no tales 1 ventured to ask the question the other iliyof day of a professional he replied with gome some confusion we begin with one another and it was only the day before that he had observed with an air of pretended indifference we are rather shorthanded short handed at the shop just now |