Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-17
HOW YOUNG MEN BECOME BALD.
Facts About the Hair and Its
Growth.
[From de washlngton star.

Interesting Facts About the Hair and Its
Growth.
from the Washington start
"One hears great deal said about per-
sons who are prematurely bald" said a
man who has for twenty years combed his
hair with a towel the other day. "But,
as matter of fact, badness is not thing
that usually comes with age. On the con-
trary, it rarely does so When man gets
bald it is not age that occasions it, but
causes constitutional. In all my life |
have never known a man to reach 40 years
with good crop of hair and lose it sub
sequently. Ask any bald-headed man
cranial thatch and he will tell you that
he became bald not long after he was 90
For the fact is that such is the time at which
person, if he is to be bald at all inevi-
tably exhibits marked symptoms of it.
OF course, you yourself know plenty of
young men who are bald Their misfor-
tune is no small one, inasmuch as hir-
suite deprivation Of the sort not only mars
the good looks of the victim, but also
makes him appear many years older than
he would otherwise seem. 1t is really IN
fortunate to see a young man who would
otherwise be exceedingly comely transform
himself into an individual of elderly if not
grotesque aspect by simply taking of his
hat. To perceive how important differ
ence it makes in mans appearance you
have only to consider the difficulty of
recognizing bald man whom YOU don't
know very well when he has his hat on,
| supposing you have always met him IN
doors before"
''Tve noticed that myself" ventured the
Star reporter.
"Why, of course you have. Who hasn't
But the misfortune of it is that the bald
ness should come so early. One might be
reconciled to it as phenomenon naturally
| incidental to age and the decay of things ;
but it is rather hard for a young man
scarce grown to find that his scalp-cover-
ing already shows symptoms of being
merely a deciduous growth. When one
comes into the world one naturally mag
ines that he is entitled to his hair for, at
all events the major part of his lifetime.
To lose 1t in this uncalled-for manner seems
indeed, an outrage. Known as a man
who is bald prematurely, you go about in
society conscious of the fact that you are at a
disadvantage. You imagine always that
you are supposed to be older than YOU are
very likely with some reason. People
say of you: 4 wonder why it is that Mr.
| Timpkins should be so awfully bald In
Short you are curiosity. The affiiction
from which you suffer is not shared by the
opposite sex at all. Rarely is it that a
woman loses her hair-possibly because
men for thousands of generations back have
not made practice of selecting those
women for wives who lack natural Golf.
fure. Frequently you find young women
with hair that Is prematurely white; but
they can afford not to mind that, for there
is nothing so becoming to a woman as white
hair, which imparts whether by contrast OF
otherwise, a youthfulness to the aspect of its
owner not equaled by any artifice known
to the most skillful artist in feminine
makeup.
"Many time have | known men OF nv
acquaintance to bewail the fact that they
were not able to grow on the top of their
heads the same luxurious crops that
sprouted with such unsought spontaneity
on their faces. BY the way, | may men
ton that one frequently sees in the news
papers tales about this or that person who
upon being exhumed from his grave, was
found to have developed beard, notwith-
standing the fact that he was shaved after
death. The 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 without saying
that the life of the vegetable beard would
not extend beyond the life of the body
that sustained it. The delusion is very
much akin to that which directs the sup
position that old people sometimes get a
third set of teeth. In such cases, OF
course, the gums have shrunk away and
the jawbone, projecting through the flesh,
is taken for fresh cut dental apparatus
There's only one thing to be suggested to
bald people that is likely to be beneficial,
and that is that they shall leave adver-
tised cures for the complaint vigorously
alone. When the hair falls out and leaves
a bald spot IL means that the hair plants
are dead, and no way has thus far been
discovered of replanting other hair plants
in the same area.
"The hair, like any other vegetable,
grows from root. 1t derives its susten-
ance indirectly from the blood, and is
kept oiled and in proper condition by a
| special gland appropriated to each tube,
| etiu VIC uiiiSiCuSS utlWctH udlT anu
| straight hair is merely that the tubes in
the former case are fattened, while in the
latter they are more round. To attempt
after the individual plant represented by a
hair has been destroyed to renew the ex-
istence of that plant is an absurdity Not
all the nostrums in the quack calendar will
accomplish it. When you are able to pro-
cure hair from healthy scalp and
transfer it to one that is non. productive,
so that it will grow, then you may talk
about curing badness; but not before No
man who has passed twenty-five years of
age and retained his natural wig, need be
afraid Of badness for the rest of his natu-
raj days. As was going to say moment
ago, mans beard after death often seems
untruly to have grown, merely for the
reason that the flesh of a corpse shrinks,
and thus the beard is exposed to view I'M
naturally"