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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11739, 29 January 1924, Page 3

In Japan, not only men but women go to the barber if there be any sign of hair on their faces; they do not permit even the ooft down to grow which the Japanese are often astonished to see left unmolested on the faces of some Western women. Often, too the eyebrows are shaved. In recent years the female barber has become a feature of the profession in Tokio, most of these being the wives of barbers who wish to make themselves useful to their husbands, though some are independent. Barber apprentices are a class, and often a law, unto themselves. Equipped with a razor, they wander from master to master as the spirit moves them, and not infrequently they become dissolute. Why is an acquitted prisoner like a gun?—Because he has been charged and then let off. The monasteries once thickly strewn throughout England and much of Europe ■sere called abbeys, from 1 eing ruled by abbots—or abbats from abbas. Syriac for “father”—as those governed by a prior were called priories. It is estimated that the sun can go on supplying heat at the present rat« for 1,000,000,000 years. For influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.— Advt.