Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1917 — FEARS HE WILL BE CRAZY [ARTICLE]

FEARS HE WILL BE CRAZY

Georgia Man Wants to Find Some Way to Stop Counting Razor Strokes. Moultrie. Ga.—Edgar R. Bruton of this city says that he is afraid he is going crazy if he doesn’t find some way to stop counting strokes of his razor when he shaves. If he cannot devise some way to break the habit, he declares, actual madness stares him in the face. Several months ago he decided that he would see how many strokes it took to shave. He counted, shaving irf his usual way. and found that he used too many. Then he set about systematically to reduce the number. Counting each time he shaved and eliminating the useless strokeshe managed at the end of a few months to cut the dally operation down. But now he has found that he can’t keep from counting.