Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1904 — VERY LENGTHY SHAVES. [ARTICLE]

VERY LENGTHY SHAVES.

Razor Travels Many Mlles Over the Average Man’s Face. The distance a man shaves in an average lifetime, or the distance his rator travels over his face, will be a surprise to most people. From a multitude of examples an average measurement around the chin from ear to ear Is found to be twelve and one-half Inches. From where the beard starts on the throat to the chin and thence to the edge of the upper lip is four arid one-half inches. You must reckon that It is necessary to give two strokes of the razor to each inch or fraction of an inch in order to coyer all the surface and go over each section of the face twice in order to secure a clean surface. So, multiplying the number of strokes by the number of times the razor is passed over the entire face, you get the figure 4, and four times the two above mentioned . measurements gives you the figures 50 and 18 respectively, which, added together, produce 88. Therefore the average man, whether, dark or fair, shaves 64 inches every tjrenty-four hours. With these figures we arrive at the result that every man wearing only a mustache shaves 2,068 feet 4 inches per year; Taking, then, the average life at seventy years and that the fair man starts shaving at eighteen and the dark man a year earlier, or at seventeen, we have the following result: That a fair man, if he lives till he is seventy, will shave in the course of his life 20 miles 650 yards 4 Inches. The dark man, if he lives till he is seventy, will shave in the course of his life 20 miles 1,340 yards 1 foot 8 inches. —Kansas City Independent.