Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1919 — Japanese Razor With Blade as Narrow as a Wire Nail [ARTICLE]

Japanese Razor With Blade as Narrow as a Wire Nail

Ancient Chinese shaving instruments, shaped like a coin and mounted in a stick, and others like a glazier’s putty knife, are rubbing edges with modern safety razors in an exhibit in New York. The various styles of razor remind one that the prehistoric Adam must have shaved with the sharp edge # of the razor clam. There is a harrow-bladed Japanese razor no wider than a nail.