The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-08-22
ABOUT CUTTING HAIR.
What say the BARRIERS WIZ" Talk OF tho
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Care ~ the Hair on MrnS Heads
You'd better have your hair trimmed,
sir"
So said the barber in tho shop at
Church and Cortlandt streets,
Why" he was asked II had it cut
only u week ago"
"Yes. but see It is very thin on top"
said the barber land think that it
should be cut very frequently in order
to save it,
On the next afternoon the barber in
the Park Avenue hotel was making his
last excursion with razor over the
same mans face.
"You are getting bald" said he.
Nov, what gigantic mystery 1t is
this subject of the hair am bald; you
are getting bald Neither Of us would
try to save u thousand dollars II that
would have kept us full head Of hair,
but neither money nor skill nor wisdom
will save any man u single hair of his
head. For my part, the only knowledge
| have. after being in the barber busi-
ness twenty years, is purely negative,
| think that if you don't have your hah
cut it will not fall out"
What Never have it cutg'
stop minute, Did You ever see
bald headed woman? You never did.
Well. such thing as a bald headed
woman exists, but they are very rare,
Now, why are women practically never
bald, and why are men growing bald in
greater numbers every year? You ma.
turally reply-or You would il you had
thought about it rs much rs THAT the
reason lies in the hats women wear
Their hats amount to nothing The
average bonnet does not weigh two
ounces. Their hats are open. and there
is more or less ventilation under and
through them, whereas mems hats are
heavy boxes that inclose and weigh
down and stifle the hair.
IL never thought of that"
"Well. that amounts to nothing" said
the barber. ut sounds important, but
whatever we say in favor of womcns
hats is offset by the fact that they wear
them twice rs many hours at II time rs
men wear theirs. Women often put 4
hat on in the morning and don't remove
it till dinner; they wear their bonnets in
church. ut the theatre. during their calls.
everywhere and all the time The i'm.
portant difference between the sexes is
after all, that boys and men have their
hair cut and girls and women don't, 4
little girls hair is nursed after she passes
early childhood.
Some fathers who are obliged to
keep their families in the hot city insist
that their babies hair shall be cut, and
the mothers yield in the cases of the
girls with great reluctance. but after
the little girls are or years old the
women fight to have their hair uncut
thenceforward. and such is the rule with
most girls. After thinking il all over
for twenty years am of the opinion that
haircutting produces badness,
See, continued the barber. what
wonderful heads of hair the Indians
have. How thick it is. How splendid
are the braids they wear down their
backs. 1t is so with all savages-all
have plenty of hair and none ever cut
it, The white men who live in wild
countries or on our border exemplify the
same thing. They wear their hair
down on their shoulders, and it is thick
and luxuriant. but it has not been cut
in all the time they have lived the life of
the rude people around them. Ny calm
decision is that if you want to escape
badness you must keep the scissors
AWAY from your head. No medicine
will remedy badness. To find "a physic
that will do so is the surest road to a
giant fortune, and men have been ex-
perimenting for more than a century,
without finding a remedy."-New York
Sun.