Wichita eagle., 1888-05-11
ONCE BALD, ALWAYS BALD.

Bitter Dissertation of Fashionable Hair
dresser-No Hair Restorative.
"Can hair be made to grow on bald headsP
said fashionable hairdresser, in response to
q reporters inquiry. "Yes-and no. If q
person becomes bald owing to sickness, the
hair can be made to grow again. In fact, it
will grow eigain without making, but it can
be aided and stimulated in its growth by
tenics. Ibut II person is deprived Of his or
her hair Oy natural loss of its vitality, it will
not grow again, and nothing has ever been
compounded that will restore it. Natural
badness comes on gradually, and the awful
day of its complete triumph over the hairs
existence may be postponed by tonics, but its
final coming cannot be prevented. Long ex-
perience has taught me that fact, although
years ago had the personal opinion of the
renolEned skin disease specialist, DR.. Bazin,
of Paris, to that effect. have dressed the
heads of New Workers. and Parisians for
thirty years. l have lamented with hundreds
Of my patrons, from whose heads not only
the hand Of time, but the indiscretion and
carelessness of youth were gradually but
pelsistently plucking the natural and often
lururisnt covering, and have anointed,
DIR enct>ed and plastered their too apparent
rubbed and kneaded and manipulated their
failing scalps until if there had been one
ember of hair life left slumbering there, it
must surely have been brought back to its
wonted fire and vigor, and have given it up
at last, and handed them card to my wig
maker. If have used one hair restorative
] have used 500, and every one among
them was warranted not only to pre-
ho1 h,,4 70, 70, holI Il.
their sonos time hirsute glory Look at me,
my son See what a remarkable growth and
youthful gloss Of hair have. ls has not
changed in twenty-five years. Why"
The hairdrssser seized his soft brown hair
with both hands, and with vicious jerk re-
moved it from his head 1t was a costly wig,
and his head was as white and bare as q bill
lard ball
THAT is WHY" he resumed, bitterly. "And
/ not only hairdresser, but skilled in every
tonsorial artl If there were help for bald.
ness other than the wigmaker do you for a
moment suppose that /, Of all men, would
not know il. and knowing it, would not only
have rescued myself, but have saved to my
self hundreds of my most profitable custom
ersl If that is not proof enough that man
once bald is always bald, Just call to mind
doctors Oh your own acquaintance VINO are
bald as glass globes. They are learned in
the mysteries of drugs and their preparation
They know what result their combination
and application will produce. If any one
living were capable of curing badness some
one among these experts in the science of
medicine surely ought TO be the one. You
never had occasion TO 60 10 doctor TO get
prescription for badness, seea Let my
shining poll be my answer.
"'Come to me for a cure for anything else
my medical adviser said Anything else,'
said he, and Will cure you. But badness!
Why, my dear sir, EsculApius himself was as
bald as-as bald as-weu, as bald as l ami
And he was bald. this doctor of mine. An
onion has more hair than he hadl No, my
son II 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 cali it, that could bid
even one hair 10 grow where there had been
ten before, there would be no bald doctors, |,
and the discoverer Of that boon would live |
longer in the hearts Of men than the much |
spoken Of individual who is expected to reach |
the summit Of all greatness some day, by |
making two blades of grass grow where ors
.rew be.o.e!'-SeE Xc.s Sa