The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-13

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The widow unpicked the lining of
the coat and found IS 600 francs in
bank notes which the miser wished
to take into the grave with him.
London News.
A Few Words About Bald Heads.
A correspondent Of the Philadel-
pkia Record, writing from Altoona,
Penn, finds himself in a maze of
doubt as to the cause and cure for
badness. He says that one author
ity has declared that premature
badness results from too close and
frequent hair cropping. According
to this authority the hair bleeds to
death, just as do sugar naples,
sago palms and grapevines when
exhaustively tapped. This theory
is refuted by the fact that frequent
shaving does not conduce to bar
renness. After loss of hair from
fever, or other illness, cropping is
frequently resorted to successfully
as a means of restoration. Per
contra, it is urged that women, who
seldom have their hair cut close, do
not often become bald. A bald
headed woman is comparative
rarity.
"The hair falls out" says vege-
tartan, because too much beef IL
eaten" To this a beef-eater re-
spends that "too much starchy
food is the root of the trouble" A
shoemaker insisted that the bald
ness on the top of his head was the
result of wearing his hat constantly
during his indoor work. His be-
lief was strengthened by the expe-
rience of an Irishman, in Indiana.
whose hair under his hat turned
gray, while the hair that the hat
did not cover retained its original
color.
In Denmark the wiseacres insist
that staying out late at night, or
undue exposure to the mooa, makes
the hair fall out. This theory is.
in a measure, sustained by the
method adopted by Philadelphia
editor to arrest the approach OF
badness. He was advised to have
his hair cut only during the waxing
of the moon. He followed the ad-
vice and now proudly sports an un-
molted topknot.
Unfeeling and hbelous writer's
have insisted that badness is main
lly confined to married men; thus
seeking to create the inference that
either their hair is pulled out in
some heated matrimonial argument
or that badness is a providentlal
dispensation which lessons the op-
portunity for one familiar method
of feminine attack.
| Time-out-of-mind badness has
been the occasion of soothing and
lest. The fate of the Hebrew hood
llums who cried: "Go up, thy bald
head !'' is historical. In our own
times the scoffer often goes unpun-
ished.
When Henry Clews, the New
York banker, man of dignified
bearing, who is unhappily bald.
asked the late iamented Mr.. Ira
vers what disguise he assume in at
tending a masked ball, he was ad-
vised to sugar-coat his head and 60
"a a nil - It has become so very
much the habit with the small par
agraphers to insist that badness
indicates hot liver and an antic dis
position, that sedate gentlemen
who no longer wear their hair have
been practically cut off from the
entertainment of the ballet.
! But the cause of badness remains
unsolved. There may be too much
nitrogen there may be too much
starch; there may be too much
moonlight. The Record will not
undertake to solve the doubt OF
its correspondent. Too much OF
ANYTHING disturbs the equilibrium
of the system, and may cut of the
nourishment, or overhead, or over
nourish the hair. If compelled to
prescribe a remedy for badness, We
might offend the hatters. To go
without head-covering might stim-
ulate nature to supply her own
original device and substitute.
Women, who do not steam their
! heads in air-tight contrivances, usu-
, ally retain their hair, and in coun.
: tries where the people 60 unhatted
, badness is unknown.