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Show AREAMislJK'AsNMADllI WB MANtr-ArTUBB Miy-JeT! of iiazuii tTnopa, m il ll..ln lalll r Hr,.p Af de el llmehile I u lal ! Ones Are Iiy of I wind Ue. r i.jsh Are l'fijj fratleoal In.lreuir. 1 1. I Ilasor strops are m.de In hundred! of varieties cnuu. ug am la, qualitlS materials, stlrs and mujter of flntst Thiy are pioduced In th.a country 14 the number of niihlo.ii a inuaiiy, nnl Amerlran tn or airupi an exported to all parts of tho wo Id I The cry hen of the swing strop now u can i s v.l used are made uO Hunlan Iciiti.cr straps of this kinttll with the very a.mplnat sort of mount lugs at one end tn hang the strop u$ by and at tb other end to hold It by, cost from 1 lo U tach Buopi of Imitation Imi-tation Husslan leather are sold cheaply ns (Oe Flue Husslan leather swing strop nlth sliver mountlngi rango In price from S tn ISt eich ; After those of Hum an leather ths best swing rasor stro,w a it maJa of hornehlde. of whlih. In fart, a vcrjf large proportion ot all swl.ig strops are' made, lionoh de s rops aie produc! In great variety, genuine horsshlde strop being sold from ItSe to 1 3 I each Imitation horaehldc strops roads ' of cowh'de, nro so d at va oua price. 1 from 10c to iifrc taih Sw.ng raw)' strops are made auto ot cj.fakln and of DOroolM leather ' I'orhnoe 0 ,r teat ot tho awlnp strop sold con 1st of ill- leather n on;, but the g eat ni ijo lor of them, of whatever Kind, gmdo or quality, oon-l slst of two parts, tho leather strop and a strop of corresponding dimensions or cotton or linen On ctu tp strops this part Is of cotton, on tbo bast stropi ot whatever kind It Is of lb best irUh linen, wovsn In the ' m of hoi and than flattened Inlc V rm There Is n (Win, .-up that Is ro-verslb.e ro-verslb.e If tho face of the lot bir Is cut In use tho trop attachmeats ur such that the leather can read! y bj ' turned Tharo I alo n sw ng stroi i that rolls up Ilka a window shade Intd the attachment from which It wing on tho wall. I Hand strops, the familiar too sided and four-sided strops, with a handlo in one oDd, nro made lu tery great 4) rloty. Including for vxamplo, travelliu strops one sort of which, small it slie, baa a handle that unscrews nil can bo dropped lualde a place mads If receive It In the strop f lioaldrs the hand strops of solid ciir structlon with two ur four sides, lht nro hand strops tahoao sides are ch posed of leather strops drawn at clJrf end over a supporting frnmewoJ, which can bo Ughtenod by turnlnJt on the handles. I lp.IIand strops aro sold at vatleL i'lprlccs ranging from tic to SI eac;, 1 1 cllrLr-mountcd hand strops run up I $25 each. ' I Dy no means every man that shavt I himself and has a raror strop ot Soul rort has also n razor hone, or atontl as n matter of fs , not ono man In i hundred, perhaps not ono In a thou sand, has ono. Thorn aro men thai bono their own razors, using, irarhaps n stono that came down tu them fron ihelr fatlur. or It might be from tholi x anduthsr And (tone can be ' bought. If ono want them that way. , la a silver box Hut n a rule when a mau's razor needs honing ho Is more likely lo tako them tu the barber's; sa that tho rtrtor stone Is virtually a professional pro-fessional Implement, uaod almost exclusively ex-clusively by tbo barbers Of razor atono Ihcro aro two general gen-eral kinds, nlmost all of wblih, of both j kinds, are Imported, the water stones, as they aro caltnd, becauso they are used with water, from Germany, and the oil stones, used with oil, and called Ilclglan nil atones, from Belgium Homo barbers use ouo und somo tho I otlttr; and somo uso both Of course tho razor stono la a very Important part of the barber's kit ot tools, and he i nines a good stono highly And n good mzo: stone la rather u costly thing. German v iter stoneu cost from 25c to 2 each, und Iletglum oil stones, ac- j cording to t"io grit and quality, from "to to S enrh these prices being fur stones from 0 to IS Inches In length 8-lncli and 10-Inch being tho sizes most commonly used New York Sun m . |