Show VERY LENGTHY SHAVES slatty the avra blant face the distance n man shaves la an av crage or the distance bis ra zor travels over bis face will be a surprise to most people from a talde ot examples an average measurement around the chin from ear to ear Is found to be twelve and one harf inches from where the beard starts on the throat to the chin and thence toi the edge of the upper lip la four and one holt inches you must reckon that it Is necessary to give two strokes 0 the rarer to each inch or traction 0 an inch in order to cover all the surface and go over each section 0 the ace twice in order to becore a clean surface so multiplying the number of strokes by the number ot times the razor Is passed over the entire face you get the figure 4 and four times the two above mentioned measurements gives you the 60 and 18 respectively which added together produce 63 therefore the average mn whether dark or calr shaves ca intres every twenty four hours with these figures we arrive at the result that every man wearing only a mustache abat feet 4 inches per year taking then the average life at seventy years and that the fair man starts shaving at eighteen find the dark man a year earlier or at seventeen we have the following result that a fair roan it he lives till he Is seventy will shave in the course ot his life 20 allea yards 4 inches the dark man it li lives till he is seventy will shave in the correo ot bis life 20 miles 1310 13 10 yards 1 toot 8 inches kansas city independent |