Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-12-28
WHY DO MEN SHAVE?

WHY DO MEN SHAVE2
For several years past It has occurred to us
that vast amount of time and money is lost in
shaving our faces If person commence at Is,
and live until 10, and If he employs 30 minutes
three times week for shaving he will have lost
4,O56 hours. Suppose we call eight of those
hours day for useful pursuits, we find GOT will
have been lost. A person can read twenty pa
ges per hour In common size book. In 4,056
hours one could read 324 volumes of $50 pages
each! Now, consider how much valuable in
formation might be acquired in reading that
number of good books. Some people shave
themselves six times a week then double the
amount of time is lost. The price of shaving
in this country ranges from five to fifteen cents
say by average, eight CENTS If man shave
three times week from Is to 10, it will be g.,
ll2 at Sc, is $648 So. If he shaves six times a
week, at the same rate, it will be $l,297 g.
Now, examine to what an incredible sum 81
cents saved per day,an placed at compound in
terest, in fifty years will amount to $500! is
the answer The previous calculations are for
30 years. AT a glance it is seen, that snug for
tune is lost by the man who shaves six times
week, without estimating his time.
We are fashionable and progressive people
most every new plan proposed for mans welfare
is tried condemned or approved. Every new
fashion, for dress, is usually adopted A style
that at first seems ont of taste, soon becomes
popular Modes of dress that were in vogue
fifteen years ago, would now appear quite &C.
centric. The eve and the fancy soon adjust
themselves to fashions that are not absurd
There is no more sound reason why the beard
should be cut off, than that the head should be
shaved.
The Egyptians wear boards and shave their
heads. The Turks consider it a disgrace to cut
the beard. Among most Europeans and East.
ern nations, the beard is regarded rs great Or
nament and a mark of dignity. The Apostles
and our Saviour are always represented rs wear.
ing boards. Indeed in all ages of the world
boards have been more or less worn. A hand
some beard is an ornament TO man, rs is fine
suite of hair to woman. Man by nature, was
made strong, and designed for cutivating the
SOIL and to perform varied occupations in the
open air of every cline. 1t is more than proba-
BILE that our Divine Creator designed boards
not only for ornament but for utility. In cold
ATTITUDES where they grow luxuriously, they
shield part of the face, protect the delicate or
gans of the throat; and those vital organs, the
lungs from cold. 1t is asserted that if public
speakers would wear Boards Larynglis and
Bronchitis would be but little known. 1t j.
well understood, that those fearful maladies lead
to the fell destroyer, Consumption.
How many brilliant mental lights might be
saved, if our public men would at once allow
Nature her sway. Writers on health disapprovc
of the stock, neckcloth, or anything. that will
prevent free circulation Of the blood to the
head and a natural action of the skin about the
neck and lungs. With flowing beard, stocks,
cravats, &C., would be unnecessary. Let few
sensible men take the lead, and in short time
the habit of shaving would be obsolete.
All nations have some queer fashions. The
Chinese women cramp their infants feet in iron
shoes to prevent their natural growth. The
Chinese men shave all the hair from their head,
but small spot on the top, which is permitted
to grow during life. Our American women,
crush their vital organs in canvas and whale
bone and our American gentlemen shave off
their boards, a custom quite as senseless as the
preceding. What a glorious sight it would be
to see an unmutilated nation living up to the
laws of their being. What health, what mental
and physical power, what love and beauty!
would every where be visible.