Smyrna times., 1892-06-29
BADNESS HEREDITARY.

So Says a Hai-dresser in a Learned Dis
course on the Subject.
''About bald heads, now," said a hair
dresser who professed to know all about
hirsute deficiency and its causes, ''they
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 uncommonlyS 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 chronically bald.
Maybe they are right, but don't be-
heve 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
disappointments2 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 at seventy. We see tbs
pampered child of fortune, son Of a mil
lionaire father, who tolls not, neither
doth he spin, yet Elijah, whom the ba(
boys Knocked, at the same time the sh,
bears came out Of the wilderness anC
dined upon them, was not arrayed il
less hair than one of these. Some nigh
explain this by the sweeping charge o
dissipation, but it will not do. l hav
among my patrons youth of this kin
who are models of sobriety, propriet
and simple living, and yet they are 9
bald as doorknobs.
"Heredity is the only explanation ths
] can be made of this mysterious depa
ture of the hair in early life, althoug
Professor Eaton, an English scientif
person who has made investigation c
the subject specially for years, does NJ
believe it, and stoutly declares that Il
= cause of badness is no nearer discover
: than it was a hundred years ago.
! "But whether am right or wrong
my theories know am right in thi
and that IS when a man Is once bald
d is alwas1 bald, unless his hair has fall,
}. put from the effects of fever. In tn
in case j win generally return in time
q, its own accord. But head that h
la gradually lost its hair while the own
se of it IS IN good physical condition h
y, lost it for good. If it wasn't so do v,
ID suppose there would be SO many bal
g beaded doctors and barbersT' = Nc
d. York Sun.