The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-10-19

Razor strops are made In hundreds
OF varieties. counting suis. qualities
materials. styles and maIlcr oi hniah
Thoy are produced Ia this country TO-
the number oil millions Annually, and
American razor slropl are exported tol
all parts OF lha world.
The very best OF the swing strops
now 80 O&touGyoly used are made OF
Russian leather stropl OF this KIND.
with the very simplest sort OF mount
lngs at one end to hang the ftrop up
by and at the other end 20 hold Il by
cost from 81 to s. each. Srops OF imi-
tatlon Russian leather are sold as
cheaply as zoe. Fine Russian Leather
swing strops with silver mountinga
range In price from 81 to S25 each
After those Of Russian leather the
best swing razor strops ase made OF
horseh.dc. OF which. In fact. a very
large proportion OF all swing strops are
made Horsoh dc a.sops are produced
In great variety. genuine horsehide
strops being sold from 2jc to Si.2'
each. Imitation hoBohldc strop8 made
OF cowh.de. are 30 d az varoas prices
from zoe to Si5c each. SWING razor
strops are made also Of caliskln anu
Of porpo.so leather
Perhaps o per cent OF the swing
stropa old con llt OF Ia, leather acne.
but the great mlio i.y OF them, oil
whatever kind. grade or quality, con
slst or two parts. the leather atrop ana
a strop OF corresponding dimensions oil
cotton or linen. On cheap atrops thii
part IA OF cotton. on the best sIopl
OF whatever kind IL Ia OF Tie best irian
linen. woven In the f'.m OF a hose an-
then aat,oned Into ! torm.
There Is a swlus '-..op that Is re-
vcralb.e. II tho face Of the leather u
cut In use the strop attachments AZ
such that tho leather can readily b
turned There % also swing atrol
that rolls up like a window shade int'
the attachment from which Il swins
on tho wall.
Hand stropa. the familiar two-aldel
and four-aldcd strops. with n handle 4
one end. are made Ia very great Va
rloty, including foT example. travolll
atrops. one sort OF Which, small
size. has a handle that unacrows a 2
can be dropped inside a place made I
receive Il Ia the strop.
Besides the hand Gtrops OF solid cof
struction with two or four sides, the
are hand strops whoae sides are COP
posed OF leather strops drawn at ci ~
end over n supporting framewoa'
which can be frightened by turning y
ON the handles.
Hand strops are sold at varhl
: prices ranging from tic 20 "a cac'
: fllvor-mountod hand strops run up ,
S25 each.
BY no means every man that shaw
J himself and has razor atrop OF son
Gort has also razor hone. or stOnl
Ms n matter Of fa-.. not one man In
hundred. perhaps not one In tho
. sand. has one. Thoge are men tn
hone their own razors. using. perhap
a stone that came down to them fro
their father. or It might be from the
! grandfather. Aud stones can
bought. II one wants them that wa
In silver box. but as rule, VIII,
a mans razor needs honlng he is mo
likely to take them TO the BARRIERS;
that the raHor stone 10 virtually a pr
fesslonal implement, used almost e
cluslvely by the BARRIERS,
or razor stones there are two gel
oral kinds, almost all of which. OF Dol
kinds. are imported. the water stone
as they are called. because they a
used with water. from Germany; ar
the oil stones, used with oil. and call'
Belgian oil stones. from Belglui
Some BARRIERS use one and some q
other; and some use both. or cour
the razor stone IA a very Imperial
part OF the BARRIERS kit OF tools. M
he values a good stone highly. Al
n good razor stone 10 rather cost
thing.
German water stones cost from q
10 81 each; and Belgium oil stones, a
cording TO the grit and quality. fro
75c TO s. each. these prices being 4
stones from 20 10 inches In lengtl
S-inch and 10-lnch being the sizes mo
commonly used.-New York Sun.