Cut Hair From An Acre Of Heads

CUT HAIR FROM AN ACRE OF HEADS

AND RUN HIS RAZOR OVER 200 MILES OF FACE

What One Ann Arbor Bard Has Done- Some Interesting Statistics

Julian Trojanowski, the skillful proprietor of the U. of M. barber shop. on State street, has been in the business for 31 years. During this time he has, on an average, shaved 6,000 men a year and cut the hair of 1,500. This would make a total of 186,000 shaves and 46,500 hair cuts.

To really understand what this means a little figuring should be done. From a multitude of examples an average measurement around the chin from ear to ear, is found to be 12% inches. From where the beard starts on the throat to the chin and thence to the edge of the under lip is 41/2 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 cover all the surface. and to 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 passed over the entire face you get the figure 4, and four times the two above mentioned measurements gives you the figures of 50 and 18 respectively, which added together produce 68. This multiplied by the total number of shaves would show that Mr. Trojanowski has traversed with his razor during the 31 years 199 miles and 3,280 feet. An average head is eight inches across and six inches from front to rear. This would make 48 square inches of hair to be cut, and figured on his total hair-cuts he has cut hair off 1 acre 17 rods, 1,385 square yards of heads.