Evening star., 1942-03-30


played baseball well enough to join
the House of David team. Now that
the War Production Board has fur
nished us with an excuse for not
shaving as often as we have in tbs
past by ordering a drastic curtail-
ment OF razor blade production.
we'll combine comfort and patriot
ism with a smile on our lips and
stubble on our chins.
The War Production Board has
| indicated it will not be long before
we are down to about one new blade
a week. I have known men who can
make blade last a week, but they
have very little time left for any
thing else. They have to wash it in
scalding water, dry it with heavy
towels, wrap it in delicate tissue,
strop it tenderly every morning, and,
for all I know, even feed 1t vitamins.
Wives Hard on Razors.
And, may I add that all OF these
men who can make a blade last
week are bachelors. No married
man ever could do 1t because no
week has ever passed that a wife
didn't get hold of her husbands
razor and leave 1t practically In
| tatters when she was through
with it.
| Razor manufacturers are always
talking about blade that you can
hand down to your grandchildren
with any proper care at all, but I
have yet to see one. They maintain
/ the blades won't rust. Maybe so,
but everything else in the neigh
. Dorhood of the blade ruSts. The
! porcelain basin you leave it on rusts.
The glass shelves of the medicine
chest rusts. The wooden window
sill rusts. The rustless razor that
holds the blade rusts, so the blade
might just as well quit being snob-
bish and rust, too
II and when we are reduced To
one blade a week the War Produc-
ton Board should publish a sched-
ule for us to follow so that we will
all look equally scraggly as the
week wears on, may I suggest that
Saturday be adopted as the day on
which to start the new blade? Sat-
urday night is the night that most
Americans howl and it helps a
mans bowling to know that he
looks nice while he howls. To wake
up with a hangover and a beach
comber's beard would be too much.
II some sort of a razor blade
schedule isn't adopted it will work
hardship on lots of us. Say your
boss calls you in on the carpet on
Thursday and you have been using
your only blade for five days, but
he has just started his that morn
ing. You'll look like Charles Laugh
ton in the second reel and he'll
look like Nelson Eddy in the first.
You won't have a prayer. But, il
he had started using his blade the
same day you did the two of YOU
could undoubtedly get together over
a styptic pencil and straighten
everything out.
Shaving Is Bothersome Thing.
AT best. shaving is a bothersome
thing. There never was a man
who. several times a week, didn't
get up, look at himself in the mir
ror, rub his hand over his chin.
and say:
wonder If need a shave today"
All OF US seem 10 suffer from ths
belief that every once in a while
whiskers don't grow in the night.
but just sort Of curl up and take
a rest. OF course, If this ever
happened we'd go running through
the house screaming and start call
ing up all the medicos we knew.
including the veterinarian down the
street.
There is only one thing unfair
about the blade-a-week allotment.
Why should some one like Gary
Cooper, with a lean. lank face, get
the same number of blades as some
one like me? I have more square
inches of face from the nose down
than he has all over.
Well. we'll let Donald Nelson
straighten that out later on.