The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-04-06
BADNESS HEREDITARY.

So Says a Hairdresser in a Learned Dis.
course ON the Subject.
ssAbout bald heads, now" said hair
dresser who professed to know all about
hirsute deficiency and its causes, 'sthey
are as much due to heredity as are
red heads, black heads, curly heads
or heads that are not curly. And
why are men SO commonly bald and
women bald SO uncommonlyp There
are doctors and men Of science who
point to that fact to strengthen their
| well known high hat theory Of bald
ness. They affect to believe, and in
sist on their belief, that the high silk
hat and the hard felt hat are responsible
for most of the baldheaded men, the un-
yielding pressure Of such headgear con-
stricting the blood vessels which nour-
ish the hair bulbs, and thus destroying
their vital properties, the result being
death of the roots and unavoidable
capillary scantiness. Women, say these
scientific spectators. do not injure the
vitals of their hair by such means, and
thus are rarely chemically bald.
maybe they are right, but don't be-
lieve it. Everybody knows that man,
as the head Of the family, has to go to
the front and stay there in the capacity
OF the breadwinner. The strain of life
comes the most severe on the man in
that respect. He it is who suffers the
anxieties and battles against the disap-
pointments Of business, speaking of life
in general. What makes men prema-
turely old? Just these anxieties and
struggles. If prematurely old, why not
prematurely bald, which is natural ac-
compartment Of untimely age? Woman
has less brain stress. Her sympathies
with the man in his struggle may be
great, and usually are, but they do not
make the demands on her organization
that tell so severely on the system of the
man.
81 account for much badness among
men by this theory of nervous exhaus-
ton, but then what will explain its prev
alence among men whose circumstances
do not require them either to indulge in
business anxieties or undergo business
disappointment? Thus we see the easy
going man about town, not yet in his
prime as to years, with no haunting
thought Of tomorrow, yet as bald as his
grandfather was ut seventy. We see the
pampered child of fortune, son of a mil
lionaire father, who tolls not, neither
doth he spin, yet Elijah, whom the bad
boys Knocked, at the same time the she
bears came out Of the wilderness and
dined upon them, was not arrayed in
! less hair than one of these. Some might
explain this by the sweeping charge of
dissipation, but it will not do. / have
among my patrons youth of this kind
who are models Of sobriety, propriety
and simple living, and yet they are as
bald as doorknobs.
"Heredity is the only explanation that
can be made Of this mysterious depar-
ture of the hair in early life, although
Professor Eaton, an English scientific
person who has made investigation on
the subject speciality for years, does not
believe it, and stoutly declares that the
cause of badness is no nearer discovery
than it was hundred years ago.
"But whether am right or wrong in
my theories know am right in this,
and that is when man is once bald he
is always bald, unless his hair has fallen
out from the effects Of fever. In that
case it will generally return in time Of
its own accord. But head that has
gradually lost its hair while the owner
of it is in good physical condition has
lost it for good. If it wasn't so do you
suppose there would be SO many bald
headed doctors and barbers?" - New
York Sun.