The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-04-30
BADNESS HEREDITARY,

So Says a Hairdresser In u Learned Dts-
course on the subject.
"About bald heads, now, said 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 mcommonly? 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 bard 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 spe ulators, 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-
ieve 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 a 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
Il 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 10 indulge in
business anxieties or undergo business
disappointmentsf Thus we see the easy
| going man about town, not yet in his
prime as 10 years, with no haunting
thought of tomorrow, yet as bald as his
/ grandfather was at seventy We see the
pampered child Of fortune, SON OF a mil
honaire father, who tolls not, neither
doth he spin, yet Elijah, whom the bad
boys Knocked, nj the same timo 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. l have
among my patrons youth of this kind
who are models Of sObEiaty propriety
and simple living. and yet they are al
bald as doorknobs.
"Heredity Is the only explanation thai
San be made of this mysterious depar
ture Of the hair in early life, although
Professor Eaton, an English scientific
person who has made investigation OF
the subject a speciality for years, does no
believe It and stoutly declares that the
cause of badness is no nearer discovery
than it was a hundred years ago,
"But whether ! am right on wrong il
my theories know am right in this
and that is when man Is once bald Ia
} Is always bald, unless his hair has fallel
! out from the effects OF fever. In tina
J case it win generally return IN time O
it's own accord. But head that ha
gradually lost it's hair while the owne
Of it is in good physical condition ha
lost it for good, II it wasn't so do yol
, Buppose there would be so many bald
headed doctors and barbersF - Ney
York SUM-