San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-03-24
HOW YOUNG MEN BECOME
BALD.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE
HAIR AND ITS GROWTH.

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persons who are prematurely bald, "
said man who has for twenty years
combed his hair with a towel, the
other day. "But, as a matter Of fact,
badness is not thing that usually
comes with age. On the contrary, it
rarely does so. When a man gets bald
tits not age that occasions it, but
causes constitutional. In all my life
| have never known man to reach
A. years With a good crop of hair and
lose it subsequently. Ask any old
headed man when he first began to
lose his normal crauIal thatch and
he will tell you that he became bald
not long after he was 20. For the
fact is that such is the time at which
a person, if he is TO be bald at all
! inevitably exhibits marked symp-
| toms of it. OF course, you yourself
know plenty of young men who are
! Dald.. Their misfortune is DO small
one, inasmuch as hirsute depriva-
| ton of the sort not only mars the
good looks OF the victim, but
also makes him appear many
wears older than he would
otherwise seem. 1t is really unfOrtu-
nate to see young man who would
otherwise be exceedingly comedy
| transform himself into an individual
of elderly if not grOteSque aspect by
simply taking off his nat. To per-
Ceive how important difference it
makes III a mans appearance you
have only to consider the ditfiulty of
recognizing a bald man whom you
don't know very well when he has his
hat on, suppOsing you have always
met HIM indoors before
i've noticed that myself ventured
the Star reporter.
"Why, OF course YOU have. Who
hasn't? But the misfortune of it is
that the badness should come so
early. One might be reconciled to it
as a phenomenon naturally inciden-
tai to age and the decay Of things;
but it is rather hard for a young man
scarce grown to find that his scalp
covering already shows symptoms of
being merely deCiduOus growth.
When one comes into the world one
naturally imagines that he is entitled
to his hair for, at all events, the ma
ior part OF his lifetime. To lose it in
this uncalled manner seems, indeed,
an outrage. Known as man who is
bald prematurely, you go about in
society conscious of the fact that you
are at disadvantage. You mag
inc always that you are supposed to
he older than you are very likely
with some season. People say Of you:
- wonder why it is that Mr.. limp
kins should be SO awtully BALD
In short. You are a curiosity. The
addiction from which you satfer is not
shared hy the opposite sex at ali.
Rarely is il that o woman loses her
hair-pos silly because mcu for thOus-
ands of generations back have not
made a practice Of selecting those
women for wives who lack a natural
couture. Frequently you find young
women with hair that is prematurely
white; but they can afford not to
mind that. inasmuch as there is moth
iH@ so becoming to a woman as white
hair, which impartS, whether by con-
traSt or otherwise, yOuthfulness to
the aspect of its owner not
equaled by any artifice known
10 the most skiltuI artist liz feminine
make up. Manga time have known
men Of my acquaintance to bowail
the fact that they We're NOT able to
grow on the top or their neads the
same luxurious crops that sprOuted
with such UmsOught spOutaneity on
their faces. BY The way, may men
| ton that one frequently sees in the
newspapers tales about this or that
person who, upon being eXhumed
! from his grave was found to have de-
velop4d d beard. Notwithstanding the
| fat that he was shaved after death.
| Inc conclusion sought from this is
| necessarily that the hair grows after
! the body is dead. This is nonsense.
| as you may imagine, for it goes with
| out saying that the life OF Che vegeta-
| bic heald would not extend beyond
| tie lie OF the body that sustained it.
! The deluslOn - very much akin to
! that which directs the suppOstiOn
! that old people sometimes get a third
! set of teeth. IN such cases, of course,
! the gums have shrunk away and the
jaw-bone projecting through the
! flesh, is taken for fresh cut dental
apparatus. There's only one thing to
! he suggested to bald people that
! is likely to I've beneficial, and that is
| that they shall leave advertised cures
for the complaint vigorously alone.
When the hair fall out and leaves a
bald spot it means that the hair
plants are dta |. and no way has thus
far been discovered OF replanting
other hair plants in the same area.
| The hair, Ike amy other vegetable,
grows from root. 1t derives its
sustenance indirectly from the blood
and is kept oiled and in proper condi-
ton by special gland appropriated
to each individual stalk. Always it