Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-22
DEATH IN THE HAIR.
Switches, ChignOns, Brights Disease, and Con-
sumption.

10 Hoat In the air and, by entering
their lungs, TO poison and contamin'
ate their blood with the germs oil
loathsome diseases. NJ. Lindeman, q
scientific gentleman who has pecu-
liar liking for finding out disagreed
bic things, has recently made a Sc.
ries of investigations of the gregar
indie, and has obtained alarming re-
suits therefrom, for he has discover
ed that these parasitic bodies abound
to an alarming extent in the false
tresses and chignons which are no W
recognized portions of lady's make
up" The evils of tight-lacing, thin
shoes and low-neck dresses, great
and manifold though they be, can
hardly compare with those which
arise from the natural desire of the
female nature to make itself as glo-
rlous as may be, the glory of wom-
an being proverbially her hair.
Probably to every ten women under
the age Of thirty years who are bald,
there are at least fifty men who arc
in like predicament The cause or
causes OF this are not easy to find ; il
may be that owing TO The greater
amount Of Intellectual and emotional
excitement which men undergo as
compared with women, the molecules
OF their brains move SO rapidly IS To
give rise TO such an intense degree of
neat that the roots of The hair are, as
TO speak, parched and baked in the
scalp again, it may be that men
Wear their hats TOO much and again,
as the lVomdn'S Journal more than
hints, it may be that the external
parts of the male head are naturally
as sterile of hirsute honors as its in-
ternal portion is barren of ideas.
However this may be, il is certain
that the day Of wigs for men Is about
ended, aud that II is only women
who poison the atmosphere with the
deadly products Of their false hair.
Were il men alone who suffer from
this cause, it might be put up with,
but what father Of family will con-
sent calmly to stand by and see tho
roses fade from the cheeks OF his
wife and daughters merely because
they wish TO be in the fashion and to
look well? Look we'll Why, it is
the very means they use to enhance
their personal pulchritude which is
dra gging them down To uu;imely
graves, and making them weak and
wan before they flee from this world
to that in which tho soul alone is
beautiful or ugly.
During the absence of his wife
from her dressing room let the hus-
band enter that sanctuary, having
prepared himself thereto not by read
ing Ovid, or Swift, or Rabelais, or
Brantome, but Lindeman, Charles
Reade; st. Pierre, Mchelet and Lee
gouve. A delicate perfume exhales
from even the wash-water. How
sweet and graceful are the curves of
that dressing-gOwn thrown ncgliS
gently on the floor just whore il fell
from that perfect form There IL q
faded flower peeping out from be-
tween the leaves of Mr.. Swinburne's
poems; it is flower he gave her
last July. He presses it to his lips,
and breathes prayer. What is it !?
A flower? No, it is a soul. There
are letters scattered around, and one
is partially burned he Chances at it;
il is one of his old love-letters. How
sweet is the careless forgetfulness of
affection which thus can destroy its
own Souvenirs! Oh, happy love, in
finite cflorescence of the eternal
morning of the human heart; sweet
affirmation Of the everlasting gasp of
the thirsty spirit All this of course.
BIT what the husband really should
do il 10 take up any of the loose
tresses and chignons which lie about
draw from them a hair, and examine
il closely. If, as is likely TO be the
case, the A8ir has been settled by
colony Of gregariudg he will find at
it's extremity a little nodosity or
knot; in this investigation he will
need no microscope, for, although
one psorosperm may be invisible to
the naked eye, colony may readily
he seen. Within this nodoaity there
are abou, fifty psorosperms, each OF
which is naturally spherical, but
when all are pressed together each
taxes tho shape Of disk. Finding
several of such nodosities the hus-
band begins to tremhle, and the
sanctuary takes on the appearance Of
having been invaded by serpent
This is the moment for clasped hands
rolling eyes, EXPLANATIONS, hair tear.
ING. Octave FeuiIlet and Deisarte
generally Spouse, be calm it is no
serpent, it Is only gregarindae !
When beat and moisture are brought
TO bear on this nodosity, it swells
and its contents become transfOrme q
into little spheres and then into pseu-
do-naviceIl9, which are small fusi.
form corpecIeas with a persistent ex-
ternal membrane, aud enclosing one
nucleus or two nuclei. These are
soon set free and float about in the
air Pandora's box is open, and mis-
cry follows.
The British Medicine Journal,
quoting,o or rather referring to NJ. Lin
demau, gives as the result Of his in
vestigation of these gregarindae, the
fact that they, floating in the air and
entering the human lungs, give rise
to cardiac affection, especially val
vular affections, Bright's disease, and
pulmonary affections" The hus'
band, convinced of the truth of this,
will try 10 reason with his wife, and
if she be sensible woman, she will
abandon the use of false hair. He
will tell her how poor girls through
out the world are robbed of THEN
glory that her own may be enehanc-
ed. Probably this will moi move heI
greatly, but when she learns that
much OF the hair used by our ladies
is taken from the heads of filthy
and deceased persons, from corpse:
and ,,arSorc drap1ad from thai,