Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — When Razors Were First Used. [ARTICLE]

When Razors Were First Used.

Razors appear to have come into general nse in France with Louis XIII. One> authority has attributed the reason for the style of smooth faces at this time to the fact that the king came throne as a child and so, of coarse, beardless. Out of courtesy to the king, the courtiers shaved their beards so that they would “possess no luicry which their king could not share.’' From the-eourtiers the custom descended to the common people, and was also copied by the English, for whom the j reach even then cre-