New Britain herald., 1927-01-05

my window open, there is need that
 the lungs resume actively their func-
 tions for a working body and not
 sleeping one. That operation just
 takes minute or two and I am
 then in my bath.
 My bath is always tepid, the
 temperature of the body l am not
 a disciple of the cold bath the first
 thing in the morning, for the reason
 that the functions of the system
 have not reached their maximum
 momentum and to require the heart
 and nervous organs to resist a cold
 bath is asking too much of them be-
 fore they have properly put on full
 speed. The tepid bath meets my re- quirements and tempers me for a brisk rubdown, attach great import ance to the latter. I perform it my self and briskly, very briskly. will not allow a masseur near me. as and without any ceremony. l know it is more efficacious. The blood is forced to circulate and l feel my whole being somehow springing into action. The skin is refreshed and ridden of all redundant surplus healthy.
 Trained Reader
 When I come from the bath. the | newspapesr are brought to me. I | read them while dressing for my l horseback ride. I am one of those | a newspaperman and responding to ! my training I can glance through | them with the eye of the eXperi- | enced editor. To dress while reading | is not a difficulty. The dressing is ! a purely mechanical function nd | to the will without any F conscious thought. It should not be a subject for mental expenditure. We do it every day. then why not make the physical agencies which the operation in dressing takes. work automatically, just as ones fingers do on the typewriter or the piano. The reading of the newspaper then becomes an added product of the mental mechanism, which it can perfectly well accomplish while the fingers are occupied elsewhere.
 My shave comes before l put on my collar I have become rather skillful in the use of an American safety razor and. though my beard is thick and stiff. I have attained such deXterity that I feel like say ing "so many seconds from father to towel" or whatever self-shavers are to measure their speed on. I have to use a new blade eveyr time l shave for there are no blades made that can stand more than one shave on my beard. And. I must shave every day. It all must come off, too. for l wear no nous taohe, which is one Of my American attributes.
 I am anti-whiskers. Fascism Is anti-whisker. Whiskers are a sign of decadence. Glance at the busts of the great Roman Emperors and YOU will find them all clean-shaven, Caesar. Augustus. When the de cline of Roman glory began. whis- kers came into style. It is true of all neriods, The Renaissance was beardless period. Whiskers were the rule in the old decadent regime. V whirh fascism replaces with youth of clean- -shaven faces. The beard IS oriental, the smooth face occidental.
 \ SpccchIcss Barber.
 My barber peeks in at me occa- sionally looking with envy on the of the safety, When I am not pressed for time. l let hlm do the shaving He is no common barber. He has a character all his own and was not made in the same would which ordinary harbers are made in. He is not loquacious He tells me none of his troubles and l tell him none of mine. He with holds his joys and I withhold mine. He does not play with and fondle my face when I allow him to show how much he can beat the safety. He is q man devoted to shaving, in l fathers without any extra flourishes and draws the razor across the face unnecessary expenditure Of physical effort. He appreciates with ne that useless effort is lost. So well have both of us carried this out, that we have not exchanged more than two words,-outside of the entire four years he has been giving me an occasional shave.
 go then fully attired wearing my riding brooches to breakfast. It is what I call breakfast. l wonder what an Fnglishman. or 2n American or German would call it and what he would do with