In Missouri a law has been passed requiring barbers to keep the regulations prescribed by the State Board of Health conspicuously posted. These include directions as to the care of towels, razors, brushes, combs, etc., under ordinary circumstances, and especially after use on customers with eruptions of any kind. The barber is required to wash his hands in running water before handling each customer, to have a disinfecting oven at hand and use it, and to employ clean, unused towels for each customer. If this law is duly enforced, it will probably give some trouble at first to the barbers, who may raise their prices accordingly, but competition and the law of supply and demand will soon regulate that phase of the subject. To the public it will be a valuable safeguard, and there is no sufficient reason why it should not be a success, at least if the local