A NEW BOOK: Mr. Gillette's Ideal Order

A NEW BOOK

Mr. Gillette's Ideal Order

The kind of man who conceives an ideal order of society is, it seems, predestined to have the befoliaged type of face. There was Plato with his curly tonsorial scenery, Karl Marx with his generous whiskers, Lenin with chin shrubbery, Trotzky with a soup moustache. When one comes to King C. Gillette, famed inventor and manufacturer of the safety razor, one would think that regardless of any idea in his head, he would be clean-shaven. Not so. His book*—a manufacturer's view of society—possibly explains the razor...

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