Smyrna times., 1881-11-23
A Learned Btrber's Oh egy ito. G
Badness.

d Learned Brb4rS Ub erV ito. @
baldBeSS.
Is 1t true that civilization mad h,ll,,...
march SIDE ny side, SIT p ior >. CD. aud ina,
the man ui the nnGtGentll century ,.r,s.,..
me bald line, so to speak. al ~ lnu,.i,
younger age than did MS less cultiv;,I,d
ana more leisurcly Ancestor OF tL,. ,Inn.
'ceh!h! Several Ingenious wrl,,rs h.N,.
duOpleu TINS nypotIiD Sis ANA cOl,tru,i,,,
1cFe5tlhS pnyalVlOsICU-plnluson ib,.-
IIes upon II, but IL seems to ~ 81 as y,i an,
'i' ilouihclcnt statistical basis, IL /, l,;,,-
Sioic that Herbert spencer may have ,oi-
icc'eo uaNh on me 9jeci III. h,.s ;,t,.,ti
p'etty mueh everything L., -Du,, ii ~.
NC H1s NOT YET mdtdc pII0iic lie results Di
MS investigation. Perhaps CUiOaci Sc;,-
.IEn' INC lhtttCr were put bGiuro hln Ia
the proper light by eminent s,irn,i6,.
persolS, might be inIuccd to do ~nrnpi in,Y
when the lIne comes around for tnLi,,s
the next census.
Certainly very few questions come bon,,
more intimately than tnis to men, b..,nl r..
ana cIaltIUmS. The vast mdivri,v or
Americans Of the voting sex are tlthcr
already bald OF afraid Ot bcc,nju,t t.IJ
Dy ana by. Witness the prolific brood OF
halr-lnVlgOrltOrS and hair-reSI Ol,llivt &, hat
swarm III the advertising pages OF car
newspapers, ami scramble i'll merry rivalry
over 1ence and dcad-wall, tuWtrin,r rl,if
ana way-sldc boulder. Here aiiI HER. :.
schock-headed, irOn-5ristlcd veteran Of the
Andrew jackson and Peter C;trtvri.,ht
type laughs the common peril 10 srn1l,
Here ana there, too, IL man NAV he t,itud
who says that ho does not care = r,,,,I,,r
whether his hair sticks to his i,i,, -, tli,Ii.
OIL; but this man can safely ne sci duyvn
Us either an unveracious Drag..art or :,
moral monstrOsity. 1t MAY he doubted
whether any normal person ever Peaches
mat melancholy station i'll his earthly
pilgrimage.
When live once ia. IL f,.rtplii yenr
Wheels up lis evening hemisphere
Witnout inward anXieties on the subject of
o;'luness, anu tentative attemptS-futile.
alls lor the most part-to avert it.
We are indebted to Monsieur II Pui,l
Sne learned French barber of the New
ork S"R, Tor brochure Of unique inter
est anu Value which takes rank at once
among the most illuminating of modrrn
contributions to the literature of bmlj-
ness. Under the title of Figaro in New
YORK" Monsieur PujOl has repu!lishpd
MS let erS to our lnctropJ Jlltau cntrmpurav
plus an essay ON the arr OF taking care. q,
Che hair. EX-hsl r-dresScr t,, tae .Iockrv
CluD OF Paris, wedding the pen as grace !
iuliy as the eurlinS-IrOn. Monsieur Puiol
lion. ''''''
Bald men will set but coli comfort.
however, from his pages. He does. m
uceCi' eldeaVor TO cheer them M by re- !
mindlnS them that Socrates, Cicero and
Csesdr were as bald as billiard balls. and
by such tlanSl;lrcnt hattrly at this = : i
baldhcsS, from my point 0f view, is a .
mark OF superiority. In nv I1nr cxn.r- :
ience as q hair-dresser have noticed iLat
II Is only the men endowed with surrrior
intelligence, such as philosophers. literary .
men ana lnventOr5-in word. men who
'uu the march OF progress with the pro. !
uucts OF thelr brams-whO are bald. Jhis !
Is not the CASE with the untortunatcs de
prlVed OF reason. l, like everybody else. !
nave remarked that idiots and cretins
nave skulls abundantly supplied with |
capillary tubes.
But he dashes their hopes at one blow
" SaylhS mat While hair that falls out
altcT Il sickness will generally grow in
again without any aid in the naturn of
tOnics, hair that has fallen out from nntnrai
causes never grows in again. He cites
Or. Bazin, formerly chief surgeon Of the
st. Louis hospital in Paris, who told him
years ago that nothing could make thu.
h4lf grow when badness had come on
gradually. This believe frmly.D saws
the learned barber =
FOR, II there was anything of the kind !
we would not see so many New York
uoctors with heads as completely desti-
tute OF hair as the backs of turtles am
even persuaded that these gentlemen
would follow the example of these Greek
heroes VINO, under the leadership of Jason.
made q voyage to Colchis to bring back
The Golden Fleece. Modern Aru0nauts
The doctors would consider Themselves
happy IT. they could bring back from sn,],
4 voyage the secret OF Restoring he hu,nn,,~ /
neece: l don't think am far from fine
truth when say that during the past d
years that have practiced the profession
Ii lair-dresser, have made the trnl lnon
Inherent bald heads OF more than 500
Inherent hair tOnics, andI am bound 10
ADMIT that l never saw a single heal ihc
iair Oh which was restored altar badness.
~ me fpd OF 80 many failures, am COM
l'eteiy undeceiNed ls 10 the gGlpa Of all
ne preparations, and I would i. now
recommend any one of them. i
.IhrA, as though to qucMch he last
'lIhlinenng spark OF hope, lie says TO the |
'ald brotherhood, who are investing in
onics and washes with such pathetic per
Istency, these terrible words: You :
you'd have just rs much success if Won {
we're to try 10 make the teeth YOU have
ost grow in again" /
To persons not yet bald, but fearful Of j
'ecoming so, the learned barber gives n Ia
ew practical coun els, such is these: itf
our hair is weak or thin trim only the "a
nds, don'thaYe your head shaved, what /
VeIcyou do; wash your hair With soap l1
Aq water almost hot, rinsing afterward d
nth mesh water ,ne+er use any greasy
PREPARATION on your hair; don't wcIf
our hat indoors. We commend his adj
zee to the. attention OF. those readers \
fhom il concerns. y
AS for our bald readers, we can only !
blow Monsieur Ppj0la eyMnple aud refer :
hem 70 sthe e'eonselatioA % PHILOSOPHY, =
'. T. Sun. Y
The idea that American grapes are nm Il
nitables for the manufacture of raisins a
iust be epnsiaeatly staggered by the a
in the Hiycrslde Fress. of y
an Bernardino County, Cal. that the Il
iisin crop Of that Slat. This wear will p
ggregate more than 10000 boxes. In Il
S7S the reports of the assessors did NOT 81
ientiop that any such industry existed. d
eriiaps IL did not, thenj hut Ia three "
ears it has reached an annual production
half n million dollars worth, an Is n.