Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-04-26
CONCERNING BADNESS.
Bitter Dissertation Of . Fashionable Nov
York HairdrOsser.

Bitter Dissertation OF . Fashionable New
York Hairdresser.
Can hair be made to grow on
bald heads?" said fashionable hair
dresser. in response to a reporter.
inquiry. ''Yes-and no. If q person
becomes bald owning to sickness. the
hair can be made to grow again. Ir
fact it will grow again without max
ing, but it can be aided and stimu
lated in its growth by tonics. But i
a person is deprived of his or her hail
by natural loss of its vitality, it will
not grow again, and nothing has ever
been compounded that will restore it
Natural badness comes on gradual
~, and the awful day of its complete
triumph over the hairs existence
may be postponed by tonics. but it:
final coming can not be prevented
Long experience has taught me tina
fact although years ago l had thu
personal opinion of the renowned
skin disease specialist, Dr.. Baz.
in of Paris to that effect
l have dressed the heads of New York
ers and Parisians for thirty years.
have lamented with hundreds of my
patrons, from whose heads not only
the hand of time, but the indiscretior
and carelessness of youth were grad
ualiy. but persistently, plucking tn,
natural and often luxuriant covering
and have anointed. drenched and plas
tered their too apparent polls will
lotions. tonics and pomatums. and
rubbed. and kneaded. and manlpu
lated their failing scalps until, if Their;
had been one ember of hair-life lef
umbering there. it must surely have
been brought back to its wonted fire
and yigor, ard have given it up a
last and handed them a card to my
wigmaker. If l have used one hail
restorative / have used five hundred.
and every one among them was war
ranted not only TO prevent badness,
but to restore to bald heads their some.
time hirsute glory. Look at me, my
son! See what a remarkable growth
and youthful gloss of hair l have. Il
has not changed in twenty-five years.
Why?"
The hairdresser seized his soft brown
hair with both hands, and with a
vicious jerk removed it from his head.
1t was costly wig. and his head was
as white and bare as billiard ball.
'That is why!' he resumed. bitter
ly. '.And l was not only a hairdresser.
but skilled in every tonsorial art! II
there were help for badness other
than the wigmaker do you for mo.
ment suppose that l. of all men. would
not know it, and knowing it, would
not only have rescued myself. but have
saved to myself hundreds of the most
profitable customers? If that is moi
proof enough that man once bald is
always bald. just call to mind doctors
of your own acquaintance who are
bald as glass globes. They are learned
in the mysteries of drug and their
preparation. Thew know what result
their combination and preparation
will produce. If any one living were
capable of curing badness some one
among these experts in the science Of
medicine surely ought to he the one.
You never had occasion to go to a
doctor to get prescription for bald
ness. see. l have had such occa-
sion. Did get one? Let my shining
poll be my answer.
"'Cnme to me for a cure for any
thing else.' my medical adviser said.
Amy thing else said he. and will
cure you. But badness! Why. my
dear. sir. Esculapius himself was as
bald as-as bald as-well, as bald as ]
ami
"A Il he was bald. this doctor of
mine. Al onion has more hair than
he had! No. my son. If there lurked
anywhere in all the materia medica.
of not only this age. but of past ages.
the name of one little herb or drug. or
whatever you may call it. that could
bid even one halr to grow where there
had been ten before, there would be
no bald doctors. and tho discoverer of
that 10 IN would live longer in the
hearts IF men than the much-spoken-
of individual who is expected to reach
the sum lit Of all greatness some day.
by maxim. two ulades Of grass grow
where one grew b,fore!'-M r Sun.