The record-union., 1891-04-28
CUT DON'T CUT TT"
Conflicting Opinions as to the Secret
of Keeping the Hair.

Conflicting Opinions as to the Secret
of Keeping the Hair.
You'd better have your hair trimmed,
sir"
SO said the barber in the shop at Church
and Cortlandt streets.
"Why?'' he was asked. 81 had it cut
only 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 a razor over the same
mans face. You are getting bald,'' said
he. Now, what gigantic mystery it is
this subject of the hair am bald; you
are getting bald. Neither of us would
try to savea 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 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"
what? Never have it cut?"
stop minute. Did you ever see q
bald-headed woman? You never did.
Well, such thing as a bald-headed wo-
man exists, but they are very rare. Now,
why are women practically never bald,
and why are men growing bald i'll greater
numbers every year? You naturally re-
ply-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 venti-
latiOn under and through them, whereas
mems hats are heavy boxes that inclose
and weigh down and stitle the hair"
Never thought of that"
We'll, that amounts to nothing" said
the barber. 1T 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 a time as
men wear theirs. Women often put a
! hat on III 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 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 3 years old the wo-
men fight to have their hair uncut thence
forward, and such is the rule with most
SlIlS' AlttI IL dll over IOE twenty
years | am of the opinion that haircut
ting 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 will remedy badness. To find
a physic that will do so is the surest
road to a giant fortune, and men have
! been experimenting for more than a
century without finding remedy."-
NelO York Sun.