Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-01-03 | Page 7 | At Last, the Reason

AT LAST, THE SEASON. "A few years ago," remarked a man who shaves, "the bartering fraternity, as most people remember, was for a tender period between two Legislative sessions under the direction and control con-trol of a State commission of examining examin-ing barbers, and before a barber could ahave a bewhiskered citlsen with full legal effect he had to obtain a license from the commission. Tha applicant for a license was subjected to a rigid examination, and at the time the troubles trou-bles of the barber commission were being be-ing exploited in public I chanced to notice no-tice a list of the questions asked in the commission's examinations. One of the Questions was: 'Why is ths upper lip always shaved laatr I have never been able to And an answer to that question in all of these succeeding years. I have asked every barber that has shaved me In that time, and only one of the whole number he Is a barber down In Sydney. New South Wales-could Wales-could give an Intelligent answer to the question. When he had finished shaving shav-ing me I asked: Why Is the upper Up always shaved last?" '"My word!' he said, with much astonishment as-tonishment at my native dullness: "That's the last part of the face I reach.' "San Francisco Chronicle.