The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-06
NAY GIRLS GROW BALD?
his Question is Serious and Must
Be Treated So.

Leading Reviews of Paris Has to
saw Of This Nightmare Which
Haunts the Pillow of the Middle
Aged Beauty.
From the New York Advertiser
This is a grave question-very grave.
norbtIess it were unphilosophic to accord
a,- GREAT Importance to a few handfuls
II dead filaments, but there is no disguis-
mo the fact that if they We're to disap-
ar from certain heads the blow would be
severe one to US. And it would also be
r,inful for the owners of the heads. True,
rigs were not invented to comfort polar
4 bo,rs and. Furthermore, if the man Of the
f,rure only sees bald women he may abhor
4 the very idea of woman with head
~ hair But we, on the contrary, are
sorelv distressed by the opposed idea,
\ ond few of us would be capable of going
tho Ienoth of a declaration of love if the
\ isdv were glabrous as a toadstool. II is
tLa women themselves who have taken
nm the matter and they must have their
r6asons for it. And at the same time the
i doctors are saying that the man of the
fnture will have no teeth On the one
hand toothless men, on the other bald
women-a pleasant prospect, truly.
But why, why take up the question at
alp YOU will say. Why should woman be-
come bald either in the near or the far
fUture2 What signs announce this disas-
fer. what crows have been heard croak-
ing to the lett.
As l well recollect, it was Nine Glenn
ence Rover who, at the congress of the
French Association for the Advancement
of Science. in 1878, at Paris, delivered, if
,f1 oCN f1ory1 ri. 1.,.4
of alarm. Though declining to admit
that man is descended from a hairy spe-
cies. she declared to the anthropological
section of the congress that for her part
she believed the pilary system of both
man and woman to be retrograding rather
than progressing, and that 1.-The specific
nudity of man must be attributed to the
guiding influence of the instructive spe-
lific ideal which acting on botn sexes and
assuring the sympathies of all those who
realize it best, makes the conditions of
life the more easy to them, and generally
speaking assures to them more numer-
GUS pOsterity' - This is clear as daylight
and if any one is now ignorant why
humanity is so badly off in the matter Of
down, it is his own fault
But for the benefit of those who, in
spite of sincere desire to comprehend the
natter, do not understand Nine Rover
amount to this-that natural selec-
ton may be presumed to discriminate
against the hairy type, and that there
lore we shall in time arrive at a state of
neat complete and aesthetic badness
Such is the logical conclusion.
All this is very well, but it may be de-
mOnstrated with equal logic that we
shall not arrive at this state. For it is
very certain that when it comes to mar
11uu sioc
COdihed and policed-the bald man
will never be sought after on ac-
count of his being victim of
Calvities, and the chances of the bald
woman for marrying or even becoming
a mother will be so small that they may
beeliminated atonce. We may, therefore,
tranquil as to the fate of our descendants
if natural selection is the only thing
10 be considered.
This, in truth, is the whole question,
whether natural selection is the only
factor. Briefly, it may be said that nat
ural selection is a weak vessel. No one
needs much experience to see to how
limited q degree it exists. Marriage is
only too rarely based on beauty and ply
steal health, and we all know that the
intrm, weak, unhealthy and degenerate
have as good a chance at founding a
stock as the healthy. Among the nations
now actually predominant natural selec-
lions is nothing more than phrase
That being the case any amelioratiOn of
the race must be problematical More
than that, among the classes which OBJ
serve les COnvenances" degeneration is
not only probable but certain, as is proved
by the history of all royal and noble fami-
lies. They must all be recruited from
the mass of the people. Here it is that
the woman of the present may find com
tort as to the charms of her granddaugh-
tiers.
tits the fact that in spiteof the tendency
OF man to grow bald as he grows Older
IN proof OF which you have only to look at
any assembly of elderly men, the Senate,
lne theater, etc.-the same tendency ex-
hloltS Itself rarely in woman and could
MOI possibly exist to greater degree,
Tor the simple reason that in that case nat
urdI selection would come into play. A man
does not hesitate to marry a constructive
ElIi II ms love is strong enough or her
doWly IS large enough, but nothing can
make him look at a bald woman In a
1Word, natural selection is almost power
less IN every other case, but in this par
IlcuIar one 1t does exist, and to high de-
gree. This is what protects the woman
Oh Inc future from the terrible calvities
winch seems to menace her
ct 1t may be objected that if man does
TEND toward badness, that if the day is
near when the down, having once fallen
from the head of the newborn bow it will
never be renewed, the same danger must
exist Tor the girls. But nature proves to
US by thousand examples, and above all
ny those in which what is called dimOr-
Phlsm exists, where there is a considerable
external difference between he sexes,
DIS IN the case of the lion, the peacock,
tne pheasant and innumerable birds in
eecJs, hsheS and crustacea, that q
great many important characteristics are
me special accompaniment of one sex or
lhe other, and are constant in their reap
pedrance even though the other sex is
totally lacking in them. There are even
certain mites in which the sexes are so
gjiSslmllar that they have been taken for
inherent species. Explain it as you will
Ihe non Keeps his name and the cock his
crest, and the lioness never wears the one
nor the hen the other.
30 we may reasSure ourselves For the
rest lady statistician has been at the
pans to measure the tendency toward
badness in both sexes. Having examined
I,I90 boys between 10 and 20 years of age
She found signs of badness equivalent to
per cent In ,374 girls these signs were
present to degree that is to be expressed
at LOO OF / per cent. Even supposing
tnen that in the far distant future man
WIN hair on the top of his head will be as
great a rarity as bearded woman to-day,
ana Is met with in A. d. $500 as rarely as
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