Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-09-04
GAL pNess HEREDITARY.
30 says n HsirsiresseF In a Learned Dts
course ON the sRbiect.

n
course the s1bject.
"About bald heads. now. I" said hair
drr@ser 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 uncommonlyr There
are doctors and men Of science who
point 10 that fact 10 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 IN.
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, II 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.
II account for much badness among
men by this theory of nervous exha-s-
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
disappointments? 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 mil
lionaire father, who tolls not, neither
doth he spin, yet Elijah. whom the bad
boys Knocked, at the same time the sht
, bears came ont of the wilderness ant
+. dined upon them, was not arrayed il
less hair than one of these. Some NIGH
explain this by the sweeping charge o.
!, destination, but it will not do. hay,
among my patrons youth of this kline
who are models of sobriety, prophet,
! and simple living. and yet they are a
bald as doorknobs.
"Heredity is the only explanation tina
I, can be made OF this mysterious depar
= ture Of the hair in early life, although
!, Professor Eaton, an English scientif
: person who has made investigation o.
! ! the subject specially for years, does no
- believe it. and stoutly declares that tn
cause of badness is no nearer discover
= than it was a hundred years ago.
But whether am right or wrong i
my theories know am right in thi:
! and that is when a man is once bald h
y is always bald, unless his hair has falle
:, out from the effects of fever. In tina
: case it will generally return in time {
: its own accord. But n head that Ina
y ! gradually lost its hair while the owne
y of it is in good physical condition hi
y lost it for good. II it wasn't SO do yo
" suppose there would DO SO many balC
headed doctors and BARRIERS? - Ne
)" York Sun.