The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-04-14
For Bald Men to Read.

The New York San publishes letter from
a French hairdresser, in which he says: Ii
ancient times badness was known and Julius
Caesar was bald. And of the DEGREES passed
in his honor by the Senate none was SO agree
able to him as that which gave him the right
to wear constantly wreath of laurels
The great orator, Cicero, also had bald
pate, and so lad the philosopher, Socrates but
the latter never complained of his badness
on the contrary he thanked the gods for having
deprived him OF his hair, being persuaded thai
his wife, Xantippe, in fit ofrage, would have
torn it all out
In our e, many persons who have become
bald seem bitterly to regret the absence ofthei1
hair, when they ought, it seems to me, to be
satisfied with it. Badness, from my point OF
view, is a mark of superiority. In my long
experience as hair-dresser, / have noticed
that it is only the men endowed with supe-
rior intelligence, such as philosophers, literary
1 men and inyentors-in word, men who aid
the march of progress with the product of
their brains-who are bald This is not the
case with the unfOrtunates deprived of reason.
|, like everybody, else, have remarked that
idiots and cretins have skulls abundantly sup
piled with capillary tubes.
Those who lived in Paris under the Empire
must remember the eccentric person who died
a few years ago, and who was known as "The
Walking Jewellers Shop" on account of the
| quantity of lis diamonds the Duke of Bruins
wick, who, througha disease of his system,
completely lost his hair and even his eyebrows,
SO that his hair dresser had to paint them on
him. with as much skill as could be displayed
by the famous portrait painter, Carolus Duran.
10 hide the nudity of his head, this million
aire duke had thirty one wigs, all different as
regards length, in order to make the decep-
ton the more complete. On the first day OF
the month he put on wig with hair shaved
close, and on the last day be put on one with
hair somewhat long. The day that he7wore
the close cut wig was happy day for him,
for of all the pleasures that his immense for
tune procured him there was not one that
could tlatter his vanity mole than to hear one
OF his lady friends remark: ooh, the dnke has
had his hair cutp Judge, then, what happi-
ness it gavehim. Everybody believed he had
the locks of Absalom. For long time he pre-
terred to display his badness rather than wear
a wig. False hair he dispised, and it was only
after an adventure which, although very
strange, did not terminate so fatally for him
IS that Of the poet Eschylus, who was killed
voracious let fall upon his head, thinking it
was rock, that the duke decided to cover his
head with wig.
One day, after copious breakfast at the |
restaurant Of the Pavilion d Erminville, in the
Bots de Boulogne, he took walk in the en-
closure of the Jardin d'Accimation. 1t was |
in the month OF July The heat was oyerpow-
erlng, and, digestion aiding, he felt the need OF
a siesta Reaching a shady place, he lay down
upon the grass after taking off his hat He |
had hardly enjoyed a quarter hour ofthe com
fort which Morpheus supplies when hecwas |
awakened by a strange sensation. Hall |
smothered he opened his eyes, and found thai
an ostrich OF the finest sort had comfortably |
seated herself upon his face. His complete |
badness had deceived the great African biped
which, prompted, doubtless, by the maternal
instinct, mstook the noble head of the duke
for one OF its eggs.
don't think am far from the truth when |
say that during the past twenty five years that
| have practiceG the profession of hair-dresser,
| have made the trial upon different bald heads |
OF more than 5O0 different hair tonics and AM |
bound to admit that never saw single head |
he hair OF which was restored after baidnesst |
The bad habit OF wearing hats indoors is very |
hurtful to the hair In 1906, alter the famous |
battte OF Jena, in which the Prussians were |
completely defeated by Napoleon |, Baron Lar |
rey, the celebrated military surgeon perceived |
that many OF the German prisoners were com
pletely bald Surprised, he made inquiries as
20 The cause OF this, and he found that they |
owed their badness to the shape-as homely |
as unhealthy of their caps. The foul air OF
The headgear, having no issue, destroyed the vi |
tallty OF the hair.
For several years the halrdressers of Lon
don have adopted a new process to prevent
The falling out of the hair. They burn with
an IRON brought to white heat, or with the
lame OF candle, the extremity of the point OF
the har. This system is so etficacious that the |
FRINGE Of Wales is to-day reduced to the ne
cesslty OF brushing his hair with sponge.