The Monitor., 1891-03-20
ABOUT CUTTING HAIR.
What Say the BARRIERS Wl,o Talk of the
Care of the Hair on Mems Heads.


Care of the Hair on Mems Heads.
you'd better have your hair trimmed,
sir
So said the barber in the shop at
Church and Cortlandt streets.
Why" he was asked. II had it cut
only a week ago."
Yes, 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
lyon 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 thousand dollars if that
wonld have kept us full head of hair,
but neither money nor skill nor wisdom
will save any man 4 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 hair
cut it will not fall out.
'.W hat: Never have it cut?"
stop minute. Did you ever see
bald headed woman? You never did.
Well. such u thing as bald headed
woman exists, but they are very rare.
Now. why arc women practically never
bald and why are men growing bald in
greater numbers every year? You ma
turally reply-or You would if you mad
thought about it as much as 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 stife the hair.
Il never thought of that"
"Well, that amounts to nothing" said
the barber. ''It 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 u time as
men wear theirs. Women often put
hat on in the morning and don't remove
it till dinner: they wear their bonnets in
church, at 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. A
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 8 years old the
women fight to have their hair uncut
thenceforward. and such is the rule with
most girls. After thinking it 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. My calm
decision is that if you want to escape
badness you must keep the scissors
away from your head. No medicine
viii remedy badness. To find a physic
that will do so is the surest road TO q
giant fortune, and men have been ex-
rerimenting for more than a century
without finding remedy. New York
Sun.