Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1883 — About Razors. [ARTICLE]

About Razors.

More razors are spoiled by improper grinding than in any other way. The only way to know positively whether a razor is good or not is to shave with it. The eye will not determine its quality, but even if a razor is of the best steel and faultlessly ground, it may be spoiled and rendered quite unfit foi shaving by improper stropping. A little too much stropping or not quite enough, and you will-have a bad edge.—Threequarters of the people who shave themselves do not know how- to use a anff Consequently are liable to condemn a goofi one. A razor is supposed to better for s re3t after it has been used for a good while. And it is. My idea about it is that an imperceptible rust gathers on il in disuse, and when that is honed and stropped off its edge is thinner and sharper than before. But yon will not infrequently hear of a barber speak oi a razor as “being tired” and “needing rest.” Many men avoid wearying a razor by constant use by the expedient of having several and using them in turn. -7 , Some men have a great number oJ razors, and keep adding to their collection all the time. Joe Jefferson, tin actor; buys at least a dozen per annum from a big cutlery house on Nassau street alone, and I knows he also buy? elsewhere. I should imagine that hi must have a trunk full of razors, if he does not lose them or give them awaj all the time. A good razor is worth from $1.50 tc $2.50, but there are cheap kinds sold as low as $2 a dozen. Last year a dealei in New- York imported 2,467 dozens o: razors, worth more than $20,000 to him And that is about what the demand is every year. —New York Sun.