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"scratchy, crawlly" feeling to look at a 

 man's face covered with a week's growth 

 of beard. By the way, there are few 

 things that add more to a man's personal 

 appearance than the proper manage- 

 ment of the beard. It may be made an 

 ornament, or almost a deformity. Take 

 my own face for an example. I can 

 talk about that without hurting any one's 

 feelings. As my friends know, it is built 

 on the long, slim plan. It would be 

 almost a caricature to put "a little bunch 

 of whiskers on the chin." Side whiskers 

 fill out the hollow cheeks and add round- 

 ness to the outline. The chin is promi- 

 nent, while the upper lip is rather sunken. 

 A mustache fills out the upper lip and 



balances the protruding chin. Chin 

 whiskers are all right for the man with a 

 round face. With some men the growth 

 of beard is so sparse and scraggly that 

 there is only one thing to do— shave the 

 whole face clean. 



In conclusion let me say, dress accord- 

 ing to your work; keep your clothing 

 neatly brushed (and cleaned if necessary); 

 keep your hair and beard trimmed, if 

 you shave, do so often enough, if you can 

 afford the time or the money, so that 

 your face will always look clean; in 

 short, make yourself look just as neat, 

 and clean, and attractive, as you possibly 

 can under the circumstances. Make it a 

 pleasure for your friends to look at you. 



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ABNORMALLY HIGH PRICL5. 



They are Suicidal, and Defeat the Very 



Object they are Intended to 



Accomplish. 



The Review has taken up the subject 

 of marketing, and intends to do all in its 

 power to improve market conditions. 

 Naturally, many of us think that pushing 

 up prices to a high figure is the great 

 desideratum. High prices are desirable, 

 but there are other important considera- 

 tions; besides, it is possible to force 

 prices to such a point that they are 

 suicidal— defeat the very object for 

 which they were attempted. If prices 

 reach that point where they seriously 

 curtail consumption, there is loss instead 

 of gain. There have been instances in 

 which prices have been pushed to such a 

 point as to practically kill the demand. 



Printers' Ink recently contained a short 

 article on the subject, written by Mr. 

 Charles Corly, a New York commission 

 man. Mr. Corly says: 



It is a well known fact and has grown 

 almost into an axiom that when certain 

 articles of food reach a price which, in 

 the eyes of the housekeeper, makes it a 

 question as to the economy of purchasing 

 such an article, that consumption is 

 heavily curtailed; and that has been 

 proven time and again during the past 

 two decades in connection with almost 

 every line of Pacific Coast products. 

 Starting back in the boom year of 1890, 

 when the crop of California fruits was 

 short and the demand for the canned and 

 cured products in excess of supply, prices 

 reached a stage at which consumption 

 virtually stopped, and the year 1891 

 found the jobbers of the United States 

 with stocks on hand which had depre- 

 ciated in value to the extent of hundreds 

 of thousands of dollars; and it was 

 several years subsequent to that time 

 before these products regained normal 

 conditions. 



In the year 1903 a Coast price of 

 $1.30 a dozen was placed on red Alaska 

 salmon, which led to the forcing of a 

 price of 85c in 1905, imperatively de- 

 manded in order to clear the surplus 

 stocks which had accumulated in the two 

 years intervening, arising out of a dis- 

 position on the part of consumers to leave 

 that grade of salmon alone. 



