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Show How to Shave Correctly. wore beard to bide an nnstgbtly ccar upon his cheek, ' compelled every male subject to wear one, too. In all civilized countries there have been periods of chln-shavlog followed by period! of beard-growing. Today fashion commands tbe uso of tbe rator. This, no doubt, is greatly to the advantage of tho Steel Triutt and tbe barbers, but it Is a cause of dlnconi-fort dlnconi-fort to many thousands of private cltl-ens. cltl-ens. Even with tbe best of roxor the morning morn-ing shave is for some men one of the most trying ordeals of tbe day. It Is a barber's axiom thnt "a good lather Is half a shave." Tbo amateur is often disposed to doubt the truth of It when ho finds that tbo portion of bis beard which be attacks last with tbe rasor, and which has. therefore, been soaking longest In tbe lather. Is Just as obstinate as the portion first removed. Tbe fact Is that tbe consistency of tbe lather is not less important than its quantity. When the soap has been well rubbed In with brash and fingers tbe snrface to which tbe rasor is first to bo applied should be covered with a fresh lather a little thlnoor than cronm, and tho creamy lather should be rvncweU as CALLEYItAND, when asked why his master, the great Napoleon, atiaved bis own chin. Instead of employing a barber, rtplled that "He who la bora a king "employs a servant to share blm; he who makes a kingdom by his own efforts shaves himself." Which means that if necessity compels you lo acquire the bnbit of shaving your-aelt your-aelt yon will alwaya prefer to do ao. The man who employs a barber argues that H is cheaper to do so thon to occupy oc-cupy himself for twice tbe time In tbe less efficient performsnce of on irksome and dangerous operation. Tbe men who is accustomed to shaving himself replies that habit has robbed the practice ot l' Irksomeneee; that he dislikes dis-likes to feel the fingers of another man, upon hla chock, and that what risks there are he prefers to take In his own bands. A drunken miner swaggered Into a bar-tor's bar-tor's shop lo Seattle and, placing himself upon tb. operating couch, laid his loaded Blx-sbooter besldo him. "If you draw a single drop of blood," he said to the barber. bar-ber. "I shall shoot you dead." The barber bar-ber shaved him without n scratch and the miner gove him a dollar and praised him Xor bis courage. The barber, pocket-lag pocket-lag tbe dollar, modestly deprecstcd the compliment. "It's you that was brave," he said. "If 1 had cut you at all 1 should have cut off your head." Obviously tbere Is something In the argument ar-gument of the self-sbaver that tbe man who submits his cheok to a barber Is placing himself at tbe mercy of a potea-. potea-. tlal aMissln. Neither be who shaves himself nor he who pays another to do it for blm entertains enter-tains tbe idea of a third and less trouble-aomeconrse trouble-aomeconrse that of oot shaving at all. Faabloa has decreed that-to. man who wishes to look smart must hare a smooth cbln, and mso. Just aa much aa woman, la the alave of fashion. It la a curlons custom, this cutting off a part of one's self that never did one any harm a survival of tho practice of oc-oration oc-oration by mutilation once so widely prer- tbo rasor advances. Tbe rasor should be stropped beforo and after use, end If the beard Is stiff, one or more intermediate stropping may be necessary. Worm water is not necessary neces-sary to an easy shnve. The rasor takes a better edge npon the strop if warm, but It may be raised to tbe necessary temperature by holding It noar a flame or even by placing It in tbo bod from which one has Just risen. Much depends npon tbe angle at which tbe blade Is applied to the skin. Bome men are accustomed to hold It with tbe edge pointing towards them, In n manner which looks suicidal and which cannot possibly accomplish a clean shave. Tbe proper method la to kep tho side ot tbe blade nearly parallel with the surface ot tbe skin. A little anollne or cold crenm rubbed on to the cbln at night will lighten tbe labor of abavlng in tbe morning. Tbe temper of tbe man who wields the rasor is as Important as that of tbe blade. A sore bead la tbe came of many a scarified chin. On the other band. It is wonderful to see what a cool and determined de-termined men can accomplish with on-promising on-promising ahav4og tackle. Prehistoric man took off his bard with a cbuok ot flint, nod many a twentieth century negro with a piece of broken window-glass can scrap, his chlo cleaner than you can scrape yours with your best hollow-grotiod hollow-grotiod blade. aient among primitive peoples, and still persisting with some savsge rnces of to-' to-' day. The South 8ea Islander s4tU hla nose and gashes bis cbsek. Civilised man cuts off bis besrd. Instead. It hurts les. Be gashes bis cheek, too, sometimes, bnt he does not do It for ornamental purpose, or even with intention. . There is, however, this remarkable dlf. ferenco between the two practices, thst. whor.as decorative cicatrisation has persisted per-sisted among savage races from time Immemorial, Im-memorial, shaving baa been- subject to extraordinary ex-traordinary alterations of observance and neglect. Tbere have been wars a bo at brd sormoos about beards and books about benrdj. Qneen Ells&bctu of England Imposed Im-posed a duo of II a year npon every un-ahATCD un-ahATCD chin, i'rancU L of Vraace, wM |