Sharp County record., 1880-06-17

mother has halt-WOrrled her LIE out
trying to train her Johnny'S rebeIliouS
locks into better ways, believing it was
Johnny's perverseneSS of manners that
induced such dilapidated-looiing head
GEAR, when it was really none of
,tohnny's fault at all, but simply a
freak of nature in misplacing the radi-
ating centerS of his "hirsute covering.
Sometimes fowls suffer from cOntrari-
wise placing of the feathers they run
the wrong way. The authors father
had hen whose leg-featherS ran up to-
ward the body, those on the body and
neck toward the head. This gave her
perpetual "out of sorts" look, and she
could never fly. The erection Of the
hair of animals during anger or of hui
man beings in fright, is caused by a
change in the skin and the angle at
which the hair enters the head or body.
There are three reasons why wOmen's S
hair is longer than mems: First, she
has no hair growth on her face, and so
has larger supply of hair-forming ma
terial for the scalp; second, the dame
ter of her hair being larger, it is less
liable to break; third, being usually Jess
engaged in mental labor or business
worry, she has a more constant and
even supply of blood to the scalp. In
nations where the hair of the men is
usually worn short, the fashion of long
hair in the male is regarded as a pro-
test against church and State and
against general customs, taste and
thought; in Austria it is made politi-
cal offenSe to be so attired.
The growth of the hair is the most
rapid in the young and middle-aged,
and in those living an outdoor, active
life. At the age of eighty, if a man
live so long, and if his hair and beard
have been close-trimmed, he has cut
off six and half inches of hair annual
ly, or about thirty feet in all.
The hair is the least destructible part
of the body. The hair of the ancient
Thebans is, after a lapse of 1000 years
found to have survived the tombs. The
Pyramids and the Sphinx are crumb-
ling, but some of the wigs of human
hair, exposed to the mold and moist
ure of their entombed apartments, are
less decayed than the monuments them
selves.
There are three coloring pigments to
the hair yellow, red and black. and all
the shades are produced by the mixture
of these three colors. In pure golden
yellow hair there is only the yellow pig
ment; in red, the red mixed with vel
low; in dark, the black mixed with red
and yellow; in the halr of the negro
there is as much red pigment as in the
reddest hair, and had not the black
been most developed--perhapS by the
action of the sun-the hair of all negroes
would be as fiery red as the reddeSt
hair Of an Englishman.
There are fewer yellow or light-hair-
ed people than dark-haired even
among the Caucasian race. The
blondes are disappearing. A greater
proportion of ight-haired women live
unmarried and die childless than the
dark. Dark-haired women have three
chances of marriage to two OF the
light-haired. "Just what sort Of phi
losophy induces the stener sex to talk
so much to and of blondes" says the
author, "and when it comes to the
actual business phase Of life, tOpropOse
to the brunetteS, is entirely beyond my
comprehension The blonde haired
are most prone to consumption, cancer
and cataract. brown-haired least so;
brown-haired people are subject to
acute rheumatism, heart disease, salt
rheum; red-haired to pleurisy, pneu-
monia, ague and neuralgias; blonde or
light color haired to skin diseases. The
blonde or auburn haired are tender
hearted and easily imposed upon, and
usually delicate and refined; red-haired
people are firm in their convictions,
great lovers of their country, people
and church, like the Scotch, but when
their hair is coarse and harsh they are
brutal and sensual; the black-haircd
are positive and powerful, very good
or very bad; the brown-haired, as
rule, furnish the philanthropists, the
painters, musicians, authors-Homer,
Virgil, Raphael, Titan, Handel, Mozart,
TasSo, Chaucer, Burns, Keats, Long
fellow, Lowell, Whittier, and hosts Of
others. Several cases of banded green,
blue and white and woolly hair are re-
ported; the hair of the Cape male is
iridescent.