Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-11
THE MISERY OF BALOHEAOS.
thousands of Dollars Spent Annually to
Make the Hair Grow.

Il make a good deal of money out
Of bald headed men," said the barber
to a n Y. Sun man. 1t is true that
| do not know of any way to make
hair grow on bald head; but although
| honestly say to every customer who
asks my opinion exactly what | be-
lieve, it has been my unvarying expe-
rieucG that no baldheaded man gives
uD without Il long and expensive series
OF experiments the hope of one day
seeing his hair restored. No matter
how many other baldheads he may
know, or what variety of unsuccessful
attempts he may have seen TO make
hair grow where it has once disap-
ppared, each baldheaded man seems
determined to make all the trials for
himself. He thinks he may succeed
whore others have failed and does not
begrudge the expense.
/ have seen barber whose head
was As destitute Of hair as marble
top table unbluSIingly recommend a
hair tonic or hair restOrer or inYigOra-
tor as certain to make the hair grow.
The baldheaded man does not ask the
question why the barber has not tried
it on his own billiard ball. but confid-
fnglv purchases bottle after bottle in
the vain hope of making up for ma
lures deficiencies.
There is a little fuzz that grows on
many bald heads that causes a good
deaf of delusion. Seeing and feeling
this fuzz the bald-headed man thinks
his new crop is coming surely. He
reasons that 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 a fuzz
and it continues to be a fuzz aud never
gets to be anything but a fuzz. 1t can
not be coaxed or driven into anything
but a fuzz.
Now, knowing all this, the barber
can not be so blind to his own inter-
ests as to 60 very far out of his way to
convince the hopeful and trusting
baldheads who do not know it. and
who insist upon learning by expensive
experience. 1t is no particular harm
for ba.dheaded man to keep on try
ing first one thing and then another.
1t amuses him and is profitable to the
barber.
There is a badness that comes
from sickness, especially from scarlet
fever or typhoid fever. when the hair
falls out and the head becomes bare
for a brief period. But in such cases
it is no art OF the barber and no mere
cOncoction of materials that makes
the hair come in again. 1t is the re-
medal effort of nature. The hair
would come back in such cases with
out the use of any pigments or ONT
ments. 1t is possible that in many
such cases the fact that the hair did
come back at a time when some par
ticular ointment was used lei TO the
belief that it was 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 womtn TO experiment on bald
heads. One reason of this is that men
can not wear false hair so securely as
women do. but rather with greater risk
of detection.
ANY one who could really compel
a growth of hair on all bald heads
would secure an immense fortune and
the gratitude of mankind. / similar
fortune and gratitude await the man
who can prevent the growth of hair
where it is not wanted