The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-23
BARRIERS AND BALD READS.
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Showing How tho Hairless Pate is an I'm.
failing Source of PrcIt.
II make good deal of money out of
bald-headed men," said the barber. "It
is true that do not know of any way
to make hair grow on n bald head, but
although l honestly say to every Gus
toner who asks my opinion exactly
what believe, it has been my unvary-
ing experience that no bald-headed man
gives up without long and expensive
series of experiments the hope of one
day seeing the hair restored. No mat
ter how many other bald heads he
may know, or what variety of unsuc-
cessful attempts he may have seen to
make hair grow where it has once dis
appeared, each bald-headcd man seems
determined to make all the trials for
himself. He thinks he may succeed
where others have failed, and does not
bcgrudgc the expense.
VI have seen n barber whose head
was us destitute of hair us marble-top
table nnblushingly recommend n hair
tonic or hair-restorer or invigorntor rs
certain to make the hair grow. The
bald-headed man does not ask the uues-
ton why the barber has not tried it on
his own billiard ball. but confidingly
purchases bottle after bottle in the vain
hope of making up for natures def
ciencies.
"There is little fuzz that grows on
many bald heads that causes a good
deal of dclusion. Seeing and feeling
this fuzz, the bald-headed man thinks
his new crop is coming surely He rca-
sons tina. if this fuzz is shaved it will
come out stronger. So he has his head
carefully shaved Then the fuzz comes
out again. But it is still fuzz, and it
continues to be fuzz, and never gets to
be anything but fuzz. 1t can not be
coaXed or driven into anything but
fuzz.
Now, knowing all this, the barber
can not be SO blind to his own interests
as to go very far out of his way to con-
vince the hopeful and trusting bald
heads who do not know it, and who in
sist upon learning by expensive cxpe-
rience. 1t is no particular harm for Il
bald-headed man to keep on trying first
one thing and then another. 1t amuscs
him and is profitable to the barber
There is badness that comes from
sickness, especially from scarlet fever
or typhoid fever, when the hair falls
out and the head becomes bare for q
brief period. But in such cases it is no
art of the barber and no mere concoc-
ton of materials that makes the hair
come i'll again. 1t is the remedial cf-
fort of nature. The hair would come
back in such cases without the use of
pigments or ointmcnts. 1t is possible
that in many such cases the fact that
the hair did come back ut time when
some particular ointment was used led
to the belief that it wns the ointment
that did the work, although the truth
was that the hair would have come back
without any ointment of any kind.
MEN are generally more disposed
than women to experiment on bald
heads. One reason of this is that men
can not wear false hair SO securely as
women 90, but rather with greater risk
Of detection.
Anyone who could really compel a
growth of hair on bald heads would Sc
cure an immense fortune and the graft
tude of mankind. And similar fortune
and gratitude await the man who can
prevent the growth of hair where it is
not wanted.-N. Y. Sun.