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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1920)
s V TJIE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1920 mmuuummmkkmr ; r va v. v - ''x jx - s y s s r jl. -x. ---v Seen under m povrertui magnifying glass an unstropped rasor blade look like a saw edge Stropping keeps the' tiny teeth of the blade in perfect mlignznen. t p cor id e s a smooth, keen edge for every have i for every ' shave No skill necessary No skill in stropping is needed to renew the -fine keen edge cf the AutoStrop Razor blades Just slip the strop through- the razor head and pass the 'razor back and forth along the strop. You don't have to take the razor apart nor even remove the. blade. ONLY a dulled or dulling razor blade pulls and scrapes. If your razor drags, if it irritates the skin, you can be sure of one thing you are usng a blade that haslost its new, sharp edge. Do yoifknow why shaving dulls a razor edge so quickly? Look at any razor blade under a microscope and you will see hundreds of tiny saw teeth, invisible to the naked eye. When these teeth are in perfect alignment the blade is sharp. But during the very first shave your beard bends these tiny teeth out of linc--makes them irregular. These irregular teeth catch in your beard, "pull on the hair follicles, and if you bear down hard to make the blade cut through scrape the skin. That3 what makes shaving so annoying, so'unpleasant. With most safety razors there is no way to smooth the minute teeth back into line. The original smooth, fine edge of the blade grows , rougher with every shave. Too many men accept the pull and scrape of fast dulling blades asinevitable. . - , ' Yet the discomfort of a blade that pulls and scrapes can bediminated if you use the , AutoStrop Razor the only safety razor that . strops its own blades. Like the leaf of a book The AutoStrop Razor Iblade opens for cleaning like the leaf of a book. .To clean, simply rinse and dry.- .No parts o unscrew nothing to take npart and reassemble. The same lever that releases the blade also adjusts it for close, ' medium or light shaving. Built right nto the frame of the AutoStrop Razor i remarkable self-stropping device, simple and efficient, which , renews the fine, keen edgeofthe AutoStrop blade day afterday. A safety razor and stropping device combined You don't have to take the razor apart nor even remove the blade. Insert the strop through the razor head, and slide the razor to and fro along the strop. The blade turns over and slaps down on the strop at the end of each stroke just as the blade of a straight razor does in the hand3 of a skilful barber. In 10 seconds you have a new, sharp shaving edge! 500 comfortable shaves are guaranteed from each dozen AutoStrop blades ! For cleaning, the blade of the AutoStrop Razor opens like the leaf of a book. Rinse and dry that's all there is to it. The same lever that releases the blade also adjusts it for close, medium or light shaving. In fact the whole AutoStrop Razor is so simply, so efficiently built that it sharpens, shaves and cleans without taking the razor apart or removing the blade. No other safety razor offers this advantage. Don't put up any longer with the pull and scrape of unstropped blades. Begin tomorrow to get the comfort of a new, sharp shaving edge every morning. Ask your dealer about the AutoStrop Razor trial plan. Standard set consists of: f silver-plated, eel f -stropping razor', Selected leather strop, twelve blades, all in neat leather case On razors, strops; b!ade9;" etc.; hereafter manufactured' by us we shall apply the trade mark "Valet ' in addition to the trade mark "AutoStrop" a an additional indication that they are the genuine products of the AutoStrop Safety Razor Co., New York. " shdrpe ns itsc I if