Shaving As It Is Taught.

Lake County Press, Issue 906, 12 April 1900, Page 2

Shaving As It Is Taught.

"Not that gentleman, William —I'll attend to him," said my regular barber after I had been lathered and the young assistant had stropped bis razor. " You must keep to casuals for another^veok." " How do we barbers learn to shave ? Well, it stands to reason that our first customers would have a rough time of it if we didn't have some practice first. I'll tell you how 1 teach my apprentices ; but, of course, every master has Ins own way. "After lathering, the great lesson is to learn how to hold the razor with firmness and lightness, and once that is known, it's half the battle won. " I first practise my lad on a glass sodawater bottle. He has to lather it thickly, and with the razor only, get all the soap off and make it quite glossy again. That gives him practice in rounding a surface safely ; when he can do that, 1 make him lather and shave a broom-handle clean, without showing any outs on the wood. " The next few lessons are devoted to shaving a hairy surface —such as a clipped rabbit skin. or even a hairy vegetable leaf. This wants a deal of care. Then he tries his hand on human skin—mine, of course. 1 needn't say 1 have to stand a few cuts before my apprentice can venture on the public ; but even then, the first bona tide shave he's put to lie's bound to feel a bit nervous over. "So 1 never risk losing a regular customer by allowing experiments to be tried upon him—' strays' I don't so much mind." iNiix vomica is prepared from the seeds of a tree that irrows in abundance in India, the Kast Indies, and Ceylon. The best French definition of golf going is that of the Breton priest, who said he had seen Al. le Ministre "playing football with two sticks."