Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18

or till IT gets so tired OF oeihg cut Oh that II
gives up and concludes to stay of. While
a woman's hair grows yard long, man
grows furlong-all along. A womans
grows out and stops at the tips, man |
crews out, and stops at the roots. And
with the man it is never-ending grOwth |
till this radical stop is made-till the very |
roots refuse to grow any more.
Consider the hair-matter that the mas
culine system has to produce for growth
on the scalp alone. Then, there is his
beard to be supplied. If the man has
heavy one and shaves it every morning
while having his hair cut every month, he
must furnish, during an ordinary lifetime,
a quantity of capillary growing-materlai
that, if put into single hair, would make
with perhaps half dozen such heads tor
relays) teIegraphic connection across
the continent.
How. then, can it be wondered at that
the reservoir of the man material for hair
should give out? Naturally the exhaustion
shows at the weakest spot. His chaps, and
cheeks, and chin, and lips have rich
subseil, wherein his beard roots deep and
sticks. But the soil is very thin on the
summit and upper slopes OF his real estate
of man, and the fine, shght-rooted crops
up there quickly feel the lack OF sufficient
irrigation, and dry up and perish.
But the womans suit of hair attains Its
normal length, and then there is nothing
left for her stock-on-hand of capillary secre-
ton to do but to preserve it as it is. There is
no more growth to absorb it. Her beard
does not call for it She does not drain 1t
bv cropping or shaving, but holds 1t IN
reserve simply to hold her glory on her
crown.
Why is not this plausible and reason
able explanation Of the marked difference
of the sexes as to baldness2 What objec-
ton can be urged against it except its
newness2 The old explanations do not
answer. This new one-and, so far as we
know, it is an entirely and absolutely new
one-is logical and verifable.
1t is contrary to the old theory. 1t is
true. This theory is that the cutting OF
the hair strengthens it. And occasionally
it may. A new starting of the growth
now and then may induce new activity
in the production of the secretion. But
this activity is necessarily transient; 1t
can not be constant it must have Its
limits, beyond which there is exhaustion.
The tonsorial practice of the civilized man
keeps it always pushed beyond these limits,
And what is the remedy? 1t is obvious.
Let the hair and beard grow as woman
lets her hair. 1t would not look well, say
YOU. A long-haired man, like short
haired woman, is a crank Very well; if
a bald-headed man fits better into civilized
society than long haired one, the prefer
ence is easy. You are probably bald al
ready, and could not be hirsute crank ii
YOU were ever so willing. The remedy
must be addressed to a younger genera
lion; who will never care for 1t till they
too are bald, and beyond its aid.
But there is another theory OF the mas
culine bald head, which, as we do not IN
tend to claim patent for it, We feel tree
to promulgate here 1t is that the prac-
tice of tobacco and whisky on the nerves,
whatever other principles it may be de-
structive Of destroys the physical prlncl-
ple of the hair. The health of the scalp
and the luxuriance OF the hair depend very
intimately on the nervous tone OF the sys-
tenn as every one must have observed. A
great grief or great fright has been
known TO turn the hair white in a single
night. A sickness that has shattered the
nerves suatches the patient bald-headed,
in the literal sense of that slang. Anything
that Injuries the healthy electrical energies
of the body saddens and sickens the lite OF
the hair. Delilah knew where Samson S
strength grew. A man who has taken a
pull or two too much at night feels his
hair pull the next morning.
The man uses more tobacco and whisky,
ten times to one hundred times TO one,
than the woman. In that proportion he
is superior to her in bald-headedness. The
Young men of the towns and clties-who,
if they live. grow TO be the old men thereof
are much more addicted to smoking, and
chewing, and drinking than those OF the
country; and as we have remarked,
they are much more addicted to
the bald head Besides shaving more
and having their hair cut oftener, they
smoke more and booze oftener.
Thus these two hypotheses explain all
the facts, and are contradicted by none OF
them. The other-the physiological-hypo-