Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — Balky Razors. [ARTICLE]

Balky Razors.

Anthony Chryst, a delegate to the International Barbers’ Convention from St. Paul, in speaking of the tonsorial trade, said: “I know there arc quite a number of persons who do not believe that a razor gets just as tired as a barber, but it is a fact just the same, and I speak from personal experience. I have been busily engaged removing the beard from a man’s face when all at once my razor would refuse to work; it would actually not cut a hair. I would strop it, but all to no purpose, for it would not do service. I had one of these razors on hand about a year ago when a most decrepit individual entered my shop. My chair was vacant and it fell my lot to remove his hirsute appendage. I'had it in for him on the start, and in order to get my revenge 1 hauled out my tired razor, expecting for my customer to endure ten thousand agonies during the operation, but I was most beautifully fooled, for that old razor went through his old crusty beard just the same as silk thread, and as a consequence I have had him on my hands ever since. I don’t know how to account for it, nor do the numerous scientists I have consulted, but it is a, well-known fact that a razor gets tired and will refuse to work just the same as a balky mule.—[St. Louis Post-Dispatch.