The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-25
ON CUTTING THE HAIR.
What the BARRIERS Have to Say on the Sub
iecf.

You'd better have your hair
trimmed, SIR
So said the barber in the shop at
Church and Cortland streets.
"Why?" he was asked. 81 had it cut
only week ago"
eyes, but l see it is very thin on
top" said the barber, ssand 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 execution with a 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 thousand dollars if that
would have kept us full head of hair,
but neither money nor skill nor wisdom
will save any man a single hair of his
head. For my part, the only knowl-
edge I have after being in the barber
business twenty years is purely mega
tive. think that if you don't have
your hair cut it will not fall OUT
"What? Never have it cut?"
"Stop a minute. Did you ever see
bald-headed woman? You never did.
Well, such thing as 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 nat
urally reply-or you would if you had
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 stihe the hair"
81 never thought of that"
"Well, that amounts to nothing"
said the barber. SIT 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 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 theater,
during their calls, everywhere and all
the time. The important difference be-
tween 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 babes hair shall be cut, and the
mothers yield in the cases of the girls
with great reluctance, but after the little
girls are four Or five years old the women
fight to have their hair uncut thence
forward, and such is the rule. with most
girls. After thinking it all over for
twenty years am Of the opinion that
hair-cutting produces badness
'See," continued the barber, s'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 yoY want to es.
cape badness you must keep the scis-
sors 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 century
without finding remedy. IN. Y. Sun