Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-11
THE MASCULINE BALD HEAD.

! Of il, and the breezes blowing sense of
nakedness across its vast exposure-the
strange mob OF wicked boys about you,
with their abominable young heads decked
with abominably glorious hair. Even if
e the boys had behaved reverently and de-
Gently, you would have felt an itching all
over your shiny pate to scalp them. What
have spleniid suits of youthful hair
4 to come bobbing about an old bald head,
anyhow? But, when they come as these
scriptural youths did, ridiculing you and
! .emaking you angrier at the uncovered pos
ture Of your intellect than you were OF
your own accord-why, then let loose the
bearsl The bears in the case performed
a sacred duty.
Noone but feels bald-headedness to be an
imposition. No one acquiesces in the
unroofng of his chronological edifce.
The process by which man is deirsuded
of his equitable share of the hair allotted
to the universal pinnacle of mankind is
s, felt to be a bare swindle. When the
process is perceived to be beginning. the
man resents it, and bristles up about it.
and defends against it to the last pin
feather. He won't have it. He puts the
BARRIERS on il with their washings, and
: scourings. and shampooings, and shing-
I lings, and shavings. He hires
Z the tonsorialist to rub the i'm
mortal soul out of his scalp.
He precipitates himself upon the drag
store and buys more than million con-
secutive washes-wash after wash-that
have been patented and certified (sworn
afidavits in the newspapers, with name
and residence) to grow hair on healthy
billiard-ball
But all in vain. Day by day be sees bis
glory fade The hairs of his head are
{ numbered Ia couple of dozen or SOY. A
shining piece of his mind as big as a
trade-dollar takes the place of the cowlick
s on his crown. 1t gradually spreads for
ward over his moral faculties and finally
meets his westward-ho forehead on the
& ls0th meridian At last it is day all over
his upper hemisphere To change the
E figure, his noble and commanding dome
of thought stands out in all the innocent
sakedness of its unadorned architecture.
How many a man has this capital afflic-
tion-in fact, this d--dome of the capital
\ afiiction-befallenl Old men naturally
expect it; though why they should, any
more than old women, the reader is not
advised, and is not to be advised at present.
| But it is a noticeable and very remarkable
fact that old age generally takes from man
his suit of hair, while it leaves woman
hirsute How common is the baid-headed
| old man, and how rare the bald old womanf
Some of this difference may be due to the
shocking audacity with which the old gent
naturally thrusts his bare pate into society
and the charming propriety with which
the old lady artifcially conceals hers from
| the vulgar gaze. But it is not all due to
that, by any means. We all know, of our
own intimacy with old people, that there
are hundred masculine bald heads
among them to one feminine. The why
this is thus is a question further along.
But the bald head is motif it ever
was it is no longer-confned to old age.
E bald-headed young woman, it is true, is
an astonisher; but the bald-headed young
man is all the go. He may not like the
fashion, vet he is fashionable. The fire.
quent skinny skulls of young gentlemen
bobbing round in genteel society are no.
ticeable-or, rather, so frequent as not to
be noticeable In fact, young mans
bald head has almost ceased to be mark
OF distinction 1t has almost ceased to be
regarded as one OF the symptoms of
gigantic mind, as it used to be.
1t was once supposed that only young
brains that were on the bulge-fery brains
that burned up the youthful hair-were
subject to badness. Great Caesar was
bald The first Napoleon had thin hair.
Shakespeare is represented with forehead
higher than his head Assemblages of
distinguished men, courts, congresses,
senates, were observed to display an ex-
traordinary number of bare patches and
open barrens on their lofty submits.
Hence, where there was little or no hair
on top of young or middle-aged man,
brains were looked for
But now it is not so much so. Because
NOWADAYS young fellows who are scarcely
out of their teens, and some OF
whom have little TO lose from
their heads but hair, shed that
with the prodigality of genius. The num-
Der of really innocent but entirely respect
able young men who are at this moment
scudding round under bare polls is too
be any longer surprising.
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