The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-21
A Sudden Epidemic of Bald
ness Makes No End
Of Trouble.
WHY MILAN ADVOCATED.
A Fair Feminine Mountaineer
From HobOken - Personal
Gossip.

70 'all the ills that flesh is nelr TO,
hair, too, may now be added
Every ones hair is dropping out.
Jersey City ladies are consulting
each other to see how much they have
lost and what they are going to do
about it.
Everything goes by fashion; there
are times when all the women have
neuralgia, other times they think govt
rather high toned. Occasionally the
dear creatures all have the influenza,
but now beauty draws us with a sim
gle hair" or will have to do so If some
remedy is not found.
Physicians also have their fancies,
and druggists accustomed to putting
up the prescriptions of any particular
practitioner will know just about what
he will order. When they took to civ
ing every n hot water to drink 1T
was very nasty but wholesome; later
they added a little sprudel salts to it,
but now arsenic in some form or other
is the thing. When a lady drops in to
consult the NJ. ID. on some trifing all
ment, and has Aer arsenic prescribed,
| she feels a littK uneasy at first, but
| when she is told that if she notices her
complexion is growing very hne-she
must not mind it, why she naturally
does not. Sometimes the first five
drops are taken with great anxiety,
but then finding herself still alive she
continues to the end of the bottle.
The idea of the arsenic is probably
kill or cure; at all events, if there Is
any germ to be killed that will do it,
and if the proprietor of the article is
| still alive so much the better.
Losing the hair is a nlalady that a
person has to become accustomed to
to like.
Some three months ago a lady comb
ing her hair saw or top OF her head, in
the glass, something that looked like a
bare spot as large as a persons fist.
The thought passed through her mind
that she was becoming blind or crazy.
She took a hand glass, sat down near
the light, saw it was q bald spot sure
enough, and then began to shrek.
This brought the servant girl to the
spot, when she was asked TREMENDOUSLY
what was the matter. Mary simply
said, Sure, ma'am, you / only get
ting bald" She thereupon consulted
a specialist, at the charge of $50 visit.
He gave some lotion, told her to give
her udlI d UlOIOuS1l WdoAllS 0NSIy
day, and a great deal of brushing, and
to fakeplenty of cod liver oil, as it was
nervous prostration, which is the
stylish disease of the moment.
All over the city people are having
the same experience. Sometimes it is
the back of the head that is left un-
covered. Wigs will probably have to
take the place of bands, bangs and
curls. A year ago a Brooklyn lawyer,
only t~wenty-six years old, was SUR
prised one morning to find a spot as
large as a silver dollar on the top OF
his lead minus the luxuriant black
locks. The following day a part of
one eyebrow disappeared, and on the
next a friend surprised him in the
street by asking him ii he had for
gotten to shave off the other half of
his mustache. He was q young man
of resources, and he walked into a
shop, bought a black silk skull cap,
went from there to a BARRIERS and or
dered his head and upper lip entirely
shaved. He took home a piece of
India ink and made himself an apology
for eyebrows. He continued the
shaving process once a day for six
months, and was rewarded at the end
of that time with the advance growth
of an entire new crop, but strange to
say instead of the black locks, light
soft, curly hair like a young child's
made it's appearance, and has appar-
emily come to stay.
Naughty King Milan of Servia is
the latest reported victim. He could
stand the Russian Cars ill-will, de-
sertions and revolutions, but when he
rose one morning in his funny Bel
grade palace to find that he
who had always been considered one
of the handsomest men in Europe was
losing his hair in spots, he took a
kingly oath in the Hungarian, Servian
and Greek languages to be a king nc
longer, but to fly to some spot where
the hair would stay in of its own ac-
cord.
With this new trouble going on wigs
will become universal. Ii this is the
case it is to be hoped that the women
will learn to secrete them when not on
their heads and not hang them on gas
fixtures to air as is their present pain
full fashion with bands. Or perhaps it
would be a good idea to have pretty
wax heads to fit them on when not in
use. This would please the mon in
the house, as there are always some OF
the male persuasion staring at the
windows Where these beauties are dis
played.
There are some advantages in an
entire head of artificial hair. There is
no bother, no bleaching, and, after the
first outlay, no expense. Many women
have used as much as a pound of
washing soda a week to keep their
hair looking blonde. Then there is
the expensive craze for gray or snow
white hair that women of thirty or
over have had for some three years
now. The women in Jersey City are
beginning to have this epidemic and
to fly to the specialists, but they will
only go to a lot of expense for moth
ing. Shaving for a few months or
years and a wig will about fill the bill.
The physicians are all saying that
excessive cigarette smoking will pro-
duce this result, but of curse that has
nothing to do with the ladies.
A Fair Hoboken Mountaineer.
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