by Joseph Triemens
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After sixty it is one-tenth of one per cent, or one chance in a thousand.
Some hae meat and canna' eat,
And some wad eat who want it;
But we hae meat and we can eat,
So let the Lord be thankit.
HINTS ON SHAVING.
Learn to shave right.
Don't shave in a hurry.
Have the water hot enough so that it won't cool too quickly.
Wash the face with soap and hot water before lathering, especially if
the beard is hard.
Have the lather very soapy--thin enough to spread easily, yet thick
enough so it won't drop. Rub well into the face with the brush, then
with the fingers. The longer you lather and the more you rub, the easier
the shave.
The hair usually grows downward. Shave with the grain, not against it.
Use a sliding motion, as well as downward.
If you get a "nick," wash with cold water. Rubbing the cut with a piece
of lump alum will stop the bleeding at once and help to heal.
Hold the razor properly. Lay it as flat as possible--the back of razor
nearly touching the skin. Have it under easy control. Don't grab it--an
easy position means an easy shave.
A poor strop will spoil the best razor ever made.
To buy a good razor and a cheap strop is pour economy.
If you prefer a swing strop, pull it as tightly as you can. Better use a
stiff strop--cushion or solid--if in doubt.
A serious mistake made by a number of self-shavers is to hold the strop
loose. This bends the invisible teeth and rounds the edge.
Strop your razor before and after shaving. This keeps the edge free from
rust.
Dip your razor in hot water before stropping and shaving. This dissolves
the accumulation in the invisible teeth.
Press as hard as you like on the back of the blade, but very lightly on
the edge.
As you reach the end of the strop, turn the razor on the back of the
blade to strop the other side, pulling toward you.
Keep rust away from your strop, and remember that a cut in the strop
will ruin your razor. Don't use a strop that is cut.
FACTS TO SETTLE ARGUMENTS
Telephone invented. 1861.
There are 2,750 languages.
Sound moves 743 miles per hour.
Hawks can fly 150 miles an hour.
Chinese invented paper, 170 B. C.
A hand, horse measure, is 4 inches.
German Empire re-established, 1871.
Storm clouds move 36 miles an hour.
The first steel pen was made in 1830.
Phonographs invented by Edison, 1877.
Light moves 187,000 miles per second.
Watches were first constructed in 1476.
First steamer crossed the Atlantic, 1819.
Rome was founded by Romulus, 752 B. C.
First musical notes used, 1338; printed, 1502.
The first Atlantic cable was operated in 1858.
The first balloon ascended from Lyons, France, 1783.
Slow rivers flow at the rate of seven-tenths of a mile per hour.
Napoleon I. crowned Emperor, 1804; died at St. Helena, 1820.
Harvard, the oldest college in the United States, was founded, 1638.
The first steam engine on this continent was brought from England, 1753.
The most extensive park is Deer Park in Denmark. It contains 4,200
acres.
Measure 209 ft. on each side and you will have a square acre, to an
inch.
Albert Durer gave the world a prophecy of future wood engraving in 1527.
The first iron ore discovered in this country was found in Virginia in
1715.
"Bravest of the Brave" was the title given to Marshal Ney at Friedland,
1807.
The highest bridge in the world, 360 ft. from the surface of the water,
is over a gorge at Constantine in Algiers.
The first volunteer fire company in the United States was at
Philadelphia, 1736.
St. Augustine, oldest city in the United States, founded by the
Spaniards, 1565.
Jamestown, Va., founded, 1607; first permanent English settlement in
America.
Books in their present form were invented by Attalus, kind of Pergamos,
198 B. C.
Robert Raikes established the first Sunday-school, at Gloucester,
England, 1781.
Oberlin College, Ohio, was the first in the United States that admitted
female students.
The first knives were used in England, and the first wheeled carriages
in France, in 1559.
The largest park in the United States is Fairmont, at Philadelphia, and
contains 2.740 acres.
The highest natural bridge in the world is at Rockbridge,
