Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-27

me that it's much OF a compliment to us
BARRIERS who spend months and months
to acquire our skill A man might as
well sit down once or twice at a piano
and try TO play. and failing, state posi-.
lively that he didn't seem TO have the
gih.",
so"Do you mean to say" managed to
gasp, as the barber prepared to apply
the warm towel to my chin, "do you
mean 10 say that YOU believe that any
man can learn to shave HIMSELF"
Certainly" he replied, iii he goes
at it right. 1t isn't such n very hard
thing TO learn-well enough for all ordl'
nary occasions at least. II only takes
little patient practice. | learned 10
shave myself wnen | was clerk in n
retail store at n salary OF s. week. 1t
was just after I was married | learned
to shave myself Tor two reasons one
was because saved from thirty to six y
cents a week by doing So and the othei
because | saved a lot OF time that way
10 spend at home, instead OF i'll bar
Der S shop, waiting for my turn, DID
YOU ever stop to think how much tim
the average man was es around barber :
shops waiting for his turn, that he could
devote 10 some other occupation or
spend at homer 1t, tough thing to be
a slave TO the baroer's habit.
But how is 4 man to go 10 wyrk TO
shave himseli1" asked
well IN the first place, man wants
two FIRST class razors, the best soap, u
good lather brush aud an Al sirop. il,
is usually best to let barber hone your
razors Tor you as that is separate trade
a BY itself, and requires considerable
time and skill, and W III care your razyts
WOMB need honing very often II were
learning over again l'd select for the
hrst trial some time when tad an hour
or so OF leisure, il necessary. I'd MAXI
up d good thick. creamy latheT, and
spread it over my face, md then rub il
well in. used to lake book or paper
and read while alternately applied u-e
lathcr aud rubbed il well ilto my lace
That's The main trouble with amateur
shavers; hey don't soften the beard mp
enough ! read somewhere that Gem
beta II an awiully tough beard, ana
that while the iathcr was SOtleniDg II up
enough Tor his valet 10 shave HIM he
used to take his exercise On the trapeze
The beginner ought 10 keep this soften.
ing process up quite awhile II makes
the first trial mucn easier.
ne razor snuulu be nelu almost NAT
against the face, with the edge Just
touching the face, and the back only
abou, The thickness OF 'eadpencil away
an angle for the blade OF about ten
degrees. The ilAtter the blade is against
the face the less the danger of cut
Study the growth OF the beard, so as
always to shave with il.
at IS better 10 learn 10 hold the razor
in either hand, but il is possible TO 20 all
over the face and only use one hand,
breaking in the other by degrees. An
other great point for the amateur is not
TO be very particular the hrst time over,
and then to lather up again and go over
the face a second time A man can
Shave himself a good zeal easier the
second time over, and the places that
troubled and were left ragged the first
time over are easily cleaned up the sec
ond time.
The great point for the learner
though, is long and careful lathering. A
man should not consider himself his own
master, thoroughly his own master, I'M
less he can shave himself. consider it
one OF the accomplishments" H. New
York Times.