The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-12
ART OF SHAVING
 THE WORLD OVER Barbering You Gan Feel in the
 Towns of Spain THE OLD EGYPTIAN WAY Shells, Minerals and Grass Used In Shavine-some Delicate Slngene In Afrlca-Curlous Substl-
 tutes for Lather.
From the New York Sun.

From the New YOrk Sun.
 Any traveller in Spain who steps off the beaten path may, like Don Quixote, find a Mambrino helmet for himself for 1t swings from staff over the door of every wayslde barber. An old and worn out basin does for a slgnboard; one less old Is. necessary to the shaver's art. These barber basins of the peninsula are always made of brass. Some of the old ones are very fairly hammered, but in all the shape is the same, a product of public utility answering to unvarylng demand,
 A half circle is cut out from one rim large enough to accommodate the patrons gullet and Adams apple. Seen in profile the effect of man being shaved is as a St. John the Baptist whose head has partly slid off the charger Thus is it adapted to the tonsorial methods in vogue fin Spain and with but slight variations practced in all of village Europe.
 There are no joke weelKlies to while away the time of waiting; there are no chairs with complicated gear to raise and lower the patient. to swing him around into the light at his most artistic angle. to tilt him back to a monotonous view of the ceiling Instead the sufferer Is planted bolt upright in a straight backed chair and throughout the operation his Is the sole responsibility of holding basin of water at his throat and if he spills the suds down upon the front of his shirt the blame Is his alone
 Nor does the difference cease here. The
 er of Eurora re"erds lather In orr,a @ incident. He vets k hee%s and smears them with - bap well rubbed on. Then he
 br to excavate this cement of a45feFII ap. moistenng 1t only when I'd F55# too hard to work
 fEs a is dragged off with little re- .vT Z feelings of the sufferer, the zsss=a never put: Docs this razor ..u. ss.s an the barber has gone his n sft ear to ear the patient takes a.s.I erd washes up for himself. When s8 yuds sting his checks he rests 4H6= f0r he has had a shave that he
 attempts at long intervals to HHa F on the face a fashion, prac-
 inc world slaves. The most as r4f advocates of the cleanly shaven f he Indians of America. Nature ssIa them out at the beginnng for
 Gr their faces appears only late H then very sparsely. For this
 S not so difficult and palntul as
 seem to follow the Indian GUS
 slling out each hair as soon as 1t
 length that will permit t to be
 Chinese Shave High
 stock whose beard is late and
 rovides employment for large
 barbers in shaving high This is
 he blue rim which encircles the
 any Chinaman's queue.
 Mongolian. a Chinese razor is
 like no other razor in the world. oEa like a split half dime mounted
 ef elk: but the Chinese find it ex- ely effective, and that must serve as mplete test of it's efficiency,
 race that peopled the valley of the XII when Egypt was the home of all the Moiid's enlightenment. shaved so com petely that one might infer that they had adopted the billiard ball as the type of beauty. for from the point of the chin to the nape of the neck not hair was spared. Here, though, crops out the mili- tary exception.
 The Pharaohs and their captains seem to have grown a few struggling hairs on the chin. At any rate they wore richly ornamented boxes to cover the boards which they may or may not have been able to grow So long as nothing showed but the beard box gummed upon the chin, anyone might wear the ceremonial and symbolic box even if he could not raise beard 10 fill 1t.
 Their great rivals for the empire Of the ancient world. the Assyrians, were shundantIy supplied with bears. That they held them in high esteem may be inferred from the fact that they carved them on the effigies of their sacred bulls and other gods of long g-forgotten theology
 If one may accept the statuary of Meso- potamia as a safe guide to the fashions