The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-18
"CUr lTs-"DoN'T CUT IT."
So Say the BARRIERS who Talk of the
Care of the Hair on Mems Heads.
From the Netu York Sun.

So Say the Barbers who Talk OF the
Care of the Hair on Mems Heads.
From the New York Sun.
YOU'D better have your hair trimmed,
sir"
So said the barber In the shop at Church
and Cortlandt streets.
a week ago."
Eyes, but see it is very thin on top" said
the barber, land l 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. "Now, what a gigantic mystery
it is-this subject Of the hair. am bald
you are getting bald. Neither Of us would
try to save a thousand dollars if that
would have kept us full head of bair, but
neither money, nor skill nor wisdom will
save any man a single hair of his head. For
my part, the only knowledge have, after
being in the barber business twenty years,
is purely negative. l think that if you don't
have your hair cut it will not fall out"
"Whata Never have it cuts"
'Stop minute. Did you ever see bald
headed womang You never did. Well,
such thing as bald-headed woman ex-
lists, but they are very rare. Now, why are
women practically never bald, and why are
men growing bald in greater numbers every
years You naturally reply-or would if
you had thought about it as much as l.
that the reason lies in the hats women wear.
Their hats amount to nothing. The aver
age 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
enclose aud weigh down and stide tine
hair"
81 never thought of that"
"Well, that amounts TO nothing" said
the barber. at sounds important, but
whatever we say in favor Of women's hats
is offset by the fact that they wear them
twice as many hours at q time as men wear
theirs. Women often put hat on in the
morning and don't remove 1t till dinner;
they wear their bonnets in church, at the
theater, during their calls, everywhere and
all the time. The important difference be-
tween the sexes is, after all, that boys aud
men have their hair cut and girls and wo-
men don't. A little girls hair is nursed
after she passes early childhood. Some
fathers who are obliged to keep their fami-
lies 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 5 years old
the women fight to have their hair uncut
NORTHUMBERLAND, auu SuCn II bAO runs WIN
most girls. After thinking it all over for
twenty years am of the opinion that hair
cutting produces badness.
"See," continued the barber, "what won
derful 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 exemphfy
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. My calm decision is
that if you want to escape badness you
head. No medicine will remedy badness.
| To find remedy that will do 80 is the
surest road to giant fortune, and men
have been experimenting for more than a
century without fiuding a remedy"