Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-08-30


much better for shaving the hair, as well
as for shaving the beard2 | see not. 1t
! is all hair, after all, or all beard, just as
you choose 10 call it. 1t is all one SUBJ
stance, on the crown Of the head and
around the base of i. And why should
not the eyebrows be shaven2 Why
shoull not mans head be made to look
like peeled onion or an added egg, !" and
done with it2" Why do those who lose
1.-THE hair from the crowns of their heads,
use hair-oil and take pains TO cultivate
the more2 That they may have the
trouble and expense of cutting it OFF,
For what is it desirable to have hair grow
on any part of the head! To furnish
work in shearing and shaving2 For
some reason OF other many Of those who
have lost their hair from the crowns of
their heads. supply the place Of it with
false preparations. If it be desirable to
have hair, precisely what length is desir-
able2 Shall nature be inquired Of or a
blind and binding, tyrannous and tyr
annizing popular ieel;ng2 And if nature
is to be improved by shaving and shearing,
why not also by tattooing. and olher
equally becoming and improving process
es, like wearing the wooden shoe in Chi
ma and the stay strings in the United
States.
The man who has vigorous growth
of beard, and shlves three times a week,
removes near or quite an inch month,
and thus about foot a year, probably
The oflener and the more close the cut
ting, the more rapid the growth. Abat
ing one fifth from the above estimate, after
throwing in the 18th month of weeks in
the year, the man who has shaved twenty
FIVE years has removed twenty feet of beard,
and the man who has shaved fifty years,
forty feet. Those who shave but once
week remove probably one half as much.
Those who have their hair sheared from
| their inf1ncy, and sheared closely. have
probably had at least an equal length of
hair taken off at the age of twenty-five or
Fifty, with the length Of beard by those
who have shaved once each week. And
probably much more; for il is my pres
ent impression that the hair grows more
rapidly from the crown than from the
lower part of the head. Ii certainly grows
to much greater length, when both are left
natural. Now think of forty feet Of beard,
and forty, fifty, or sky feet of hair hav-
ing been removed from the head of man
at the age of fifty. The physical viola
lion and unnatural exhaustion is certainly
very great. My own poor head can not
afford TO suffer such dementaling violence.
The trimming o: the beard has by some
been compared TO the trimming of tree.
But there is no likeness between the two
! Who would ever think of trimming tree
if it never healed at the points of excis-
ion, but on the contrary was always wasting
its vital energies to supply the place of the
| unnatural remoyal2 Who does notknow
the perfect Development of a tree would
be prevented by constant pealing and lac
GRAFTON that would keep upa perpetual ex-
| uding and waste
The truth is, no reason can be given
for this constant use Of shears and razors
about the human head. 1t is monslrously
unnatural, and must be vastly hurlful.
All that can be said for it is, il is the fash
ION 10 DO it. Ii is the custom. it is the
habit of society. This can be said of the
worst practices among men.
| l, for one, am determined no longer to
bow down and worship at the command Of
such tyrants. This is one principal rea
son with me for my present course in this
matter. 1t is an abiding conviction with
me that there is need of testimony being
borne against the universal enslavement
there is 20 fashion and the popular will.
VoL Popuii est uor Dei-lhe voice Of the
people is the voice of Gods a dogma
that reject
The most intolerant towards me would
De as | am al once, if fashion required ii
Of them. The voice of Truth and Rea-
son is nothing with them. The speech
OF perverse generation is everv thing
These are they who tell US OF the natu-
raj corruption of man. Whoever will
! undertake 70 reform ,nen ond A.