“NEXT GENTLEMAN PLEASE."

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8839, 15 June 1907, Page 1

“NEXT GENTLEMAN PLEASE."

j Is the razor to be a thing ''of the past? Ton remember the way D»n Leno used to share himself at the Pole. He simply dipped his whiskers \ in water, waited till they froze, and then broke them off. The newest style of shaving does not exactly follow poor Dan’s ingenious plan, but is something like it. All you have to do is to lather your face with a patent preparation called “razorless shaving paste” and let It sink in for some eight minutes until it assumes a grey and dcath-like palor. Then you turn a spray upon it, and taking up a piece of cardboard, a paper knife, or even a comb, pass it over your face, and away comes the paste with yesterday’s stubble, leaving your chin and cheeks as smooth as a baby’s. They demonstrated the virtues of the razorless shave at Cannon ; Street Hotel a few days ago. They removed navvies’ stubble that would not have disgraced a scrubbing rush for stoutness as easily as they took the incipient whiskers off a lad of 17, using all sorts of queer shaving implements, from the end of a shoehorn to the end of a small tooth , comb. The new shaving process has many apparent virtues. You simply can’t out yourself, unless you deliberately use the business edge of a ■ knife or razor, which is quite unnecessary ; you can shave in the dark, . and the fact that you’ve stayed late at a smoking concert last night or sat up with Johnny Walker till the i ‘‘woe sraa’ oors” will not make the > matutinal shave any the less—or more—pleasant. The only drawback , to the new style of shaving Is the I fact that you have to bear patiently i for about eight minutes the smell of a lather that seems at some more or loss remote period to have been lodged in an acetylene gasholder or to have rubbed shoulders in its salad days with H2S. Six beards were cut off" at Cannon Street last Friday to make a journalistic holiday. The men sat on a platform, arrayed in white drapery—men with muttonchop side whiskers, with sfcuhby chins, with shaggy moustaches, and one with a fairly full beard, grown for the occasion. The inventor lathered them with the “paste”, and four Press photographers took a snapshot. Then the inventor sprayed the first man, seized a bone paper knife—there was a pause to allow the photographers to press the button. The lather was scraped off, and “ the man was shaved—another photograph. And so on with the remaining five. But the biggest success of the afternoon was the bearded man, who, after the operation, came down among the audience with one whisker on and the other off, and al- , lowed his face to be stroked to see I how smooth it was after the shave. Barbers tell us that the paste is no new thing, and it is a fact that in Amsterdam yon can see notices in barber’s windows to the effect that shaving is done inside with paste. The real question is whether men will be content to “sit around” for eight long minutes with the far-off W H3S initheir nostrils rather jj, than'pay 2d or 3d for a decent shave vr or undergo three minutes’ torture at their own hands at home. A woman named Biance Thefeaa, of jarrying a baby, has been arrested in France for sumggling contraband goods She excited the suspicions of a Custom jfficialby her excessive corpulence,and Hi in examination disclosed that she was ‘built up” of packets of tobacco, cigarettes, and matches. The ’’baby” was i cardboard figure filled with tobacco. There was produced at the Beacon;ree licensing sessions held at Ilford ■ecently, a license granted by Sir Water Raleigh in the twenty-eighth year >f the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The 00 larchment was well preserved and U lasily decipherable. sS A farmer of Barakony, Hungary, lied from injuries which he received vhile having a tooth drawn by a blackmith named Hermann. Hermann ixed the farmer sin a vice, and pulled f ho tooth with a rusty pair fo pincers. ‘ 1 For croupy coughs, ’ ’ says Mr J. Abbott, general merchant, Dandeloug and North Mirhoo, “there is lothing quite so good as Chamberaiu’s Oough Remedy. It is the one nediciuo that I always keep in my lome, so as to have convenient to ;ivo any of the children who show ymptoms of a cough or cold. The ouger I use it so does my faith iusrease as to its efficacy. The people >f Dandenong think a great deal of lhamberlain’s Oongh Remedy, and heir comments are always flatterug. For sale by T. H. Bredin, Marou; and AY. B. Olark, Bulls.

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