The Red Cloud chief., 1880-07-15

otl I'LL
characteristics a People with Dinerenl
(oIored Hair, Etc.
The Detroit Free Press publishes the
following extract from q book on 1.-The
Hair, its Growth, Care and treatment
recently published by a medical man in
that city:
The people of Paris and London alone
use twenty car loads of other peoples
hair. Converts usually furnish large
amount for the French, Spanish and
Italian markets, and it is known 10 the
trade as "church hair" The prices OF
hair range from five dollars 10 twenty
cents a head, though the finest of golden
hair will bring two dollars an ounce,
white hair five dollars an ounce. In
such cases a head of hair is worth from
twenty-five to fifty dollars. Some Ma
tionalities have a peculiar odor in their
hair; the Chinese hair has a musky
smell, and the odOr of violets has been
detected in one or two instances. The
dealers detect the quality mainly by the
touch, can tell whether its color is dyed
or bleached, and whether it comes from
the living or the dead. As a rule hair
growers are a degraded race whose
riches consist not in their flocks, but in
bhSil " hCCICSs "litCu tltf never DIN
up or comb. but wear in closely-fitting
caps.
The enormous strength of the hair is
hardly a~ppreciable. A healthy single
hair will support four ounces. A single
head of hair in an audience of 200 peo-
pie will support the entire audience;
and the hair of all the people in Detroit
would support n load which would re-
quire 5000 locomotives to draw, and
the hairs of the people of the globe
would support a planet against the
gravity of the earth. Samson's hair
was evidently a fitting emblem of his
strength.
The shape of the hair, looked at as
one would look at the end of a stick of
candy, is an oval in the European and
light haired races, and i'm the Semitic
races more or less angular. The hair
of the negro is elliptical or kidney
shaped; it has no central canal, and
will ..felt." The Europeans will not;
bUk although the negro's hair. as a
Whole, seems coarse, perhaps on &C
cout of its curliness, a competent OBJ
serer AYERS that the individual hairs
otis race are finer than the hairs of
NEuropean. The curl in the negro's
b is caused by effect, during thou
rs of years, of a hot sun, which has
Il upon it like perpetual crimping-
Notwithstanding the smallness of a
e re hair, the hair on the heads of the
sle of Detroit would make a foot
i II inches wide and 600 miles in
9Th. In spite of the contrary
aon, the hair of men is finer than
Eof women, whether the coarsest
x.&s ! hair is compared with the coarsest
ale hair, or the finest male hair
al 5the finest female hair; the finest
sbeing found among civilized Ma
49, :. The young woman with long,
- / golden locks runs her comb
uoh 20 miles of hair in the morn
and some even nave SO and 100
) of it. 1t is literally true that the
of the head are numbered and, on
yerage, amount of $780, 900 to each
m having a full and luxuriant
tn, ~black-haired persons having
fewest. fiaXen-haired the most.
liIst our : blondes are so rich in
wealth of golden tresses, their
er-haired sisters are compelled TO
atisfed with fifty, forty--yes, and
e red-haircd sisters with but thirty
miles of this covering, which St.
ssays is a glory to her. While the
shaS the more from which to tie true
nknots. Nature has allowed the
sf,r-haired ones to tie theirs the
ss,er.n But the filaments on ami
are much more numerous than on
Ion ON the Merino sheep there is a
%nombined length of ilament equal to
&c distance a railroad car, at the rate
IF a mile a minute, would traverse,
NIGHT and day, in $4,000 years.
Hairs do not, as a rule, penetrate the
soaln Internationally, but at an angle.
Wben the angle of the different hairs is
Tho same. it is possible to give to it the
easy sweeps and curves which we gen.
or.ilv see it take; but if they are by
some freak of nature misplaced. "we
have the rebellious .frizzle-tops' that
: not susceptible to the influence OF
,ho brush and comb" Many a poor
n,otber has half-worried her life out
irving to train her Johnny's rebellious
locks into better ways, believing it was
.Johnny's perverseness of manners that
;nduced such MISUNDERSTANDING head.
roar when it was really none OF
fobnnv,s fault al all, but simply a
freak IF nature in misplacing the radi-
ot;ng centers of his =. hirsute covering.
Sonaet;mes fowls suffer from q contrarl-
wise placing of the fe~athers-they run
tho wrono way. The authors father
had a hen whose l~eg-feathers ran up 10,
ward the body, those on the body ana
.n.,ck toward the head. This gave her
.~~netual a of Sorts look. and she
Gcnid never fly. The erection OF the
hair of animals during anger or OF hu-
man beings in fright, is caused by a
chance i'm the skin and the angle at
which the hair enters the head or body.
There are three reasons why women s
hair Is longer than mems: First, she
has no hair growth on her face, md SO
has 4 LARGER supply of hair-forming ma
ter;al for the scalp; second, the diane
tor of her hair being larger, it is less
I;able tn break: third, being usually less
enosred in mental labor or business
worrT 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, b fasnion OF ions
hair in the male is regarded a q pro,
test against church n state anu
against general customs, taste anu
thought; in Austria it is made a poiiti-
cal offense to be so attired.
The growth of the hair is the most
rapid in the young and middie-aged.
and in those living an outdoor. active
life. At the :Se of eighty, il q man
live so long. and if his hair and beard
aye been ciose-trimmed, he has
six and q half inches of hair annuai-
Aabout thirty feet in ALL
fhe least d~estructible part
Air Of the ancient