Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-15

+Sy SHpsaid a man who has for twenty wears
o9Rse s,1 his R hair with towel I'll, the
badness is not a thing that usually comes with
age. On the contrary, it rarely does SO. When
man gets bald it is not age that occasions it,
but causes constitutional. In all my life L have
never known a man to reach forty-five years
with good crop of hair and lose it subse-
quently. Ask any bald-headed man when he
first began to lose his normal cranial thatch
and he will tell you that he became bald not
long after he was twenty. For the fact is that
such Is the time at which 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 bald. Their
misfortune is no small one, inasmuch as an hlr-
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 other
wise seem. 1t is really unfortunate to a
young man who would otherwise be exceed
ingly .comcly transform himself into an indi-
vidual OF elderly if not grotesque aspect
BY SIMPLY TAKING OFF HIS HAT
To perceive how important a difference it
makes in a 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 that you have al
ways met him indoors before"
Il We notced tnat myself, yentured IHE
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 phenomenon naturally incidental to age
and the decay of things; but it is rather hard
for young man scarce grown to find that his
scalp covering already shows symptoms of
being merely deciduous growth. When one
comes Ill the world one naturally imagines that
he is entitled to his hair for, at all events, the
major part Of his lifetime. To lose it in this
uncalled-tor 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. Iou imagine al
ways that you are supposed to be older than
you ace-very likely with some reason. People
say of you:
"Iwonder why it is that Mr.. Timpkins should
be SO awfully baidY
WOMEN ARE NOT BALD.
"1n short. you curiosity. The affection
from which you suffer is not shared by the OPP
posite sex at all. Rarely is it that woman
loses her hair possibly because men for
thousands of generations back have not made
practice OF selecting those women for wives
who lack a natural couture. Frequently you
lind young women with hair that lis prematurely
white; but they can afford not 20 mind that
lnasnuch as there is nothing so becoming to a
woman as white hair, which imparts, whether
by contrast or otherwise, youthfulness to the
aspect OF Its owner not equaled by any artifice
known to the most skillfut artist in feminine
make up. Many a time have | known men of
my 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 uusought spontaneity Oh their faces.
by the way may mention that one frequently
sees in the newspapers tales about this or that
person VINO. upon being eXhumed from his
grave, was found to have developed beard
Notwithstanding 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 NAV
imagine for il goes without saying that the life of
the vegetable beard would not extend beyond
the life OF the body that sustained It, The de-
lESlon Is very much akin to that which directs
the supposition that old people sometimes get
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 be beneficial and
that is that they shall leave advertised cures
for the complaint vigorously alone. When the
hair falls out and leaves bald spot it 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 de-
rlves Its sustenance indirectly from the blood
and is Kept oiled and in proper condition by a
special gland appropriated to each individual
stalk Always 1t Is tube. and the difference
between curly hair and straight hair is merely
that the tubes in the former case are flattened,
while in the latter they more round. To
attempt after the individual plant represented
by hair has been destroyed to reuew the
existence Of that plant is an al surdity
Not all the nostrums IN the quack CO 5ndar will
accomplish it. When you able 20 procure
hair from healthy scalp and transfer 1t to
one that Is non-productive so that 1t 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
days. AS l was going to say a moment
ago. a mans beard after death often seems I'M
truly to have grown. merely for the reason that
the flesh of a corpse shrinks and thus the
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