The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-05-02
ABOUT Badness.
A Maze of Doubt About Its Cause
and Cure.

A correspondent writing from AL
toona, Pa, finds himself in maze
of doubt as to the cause and cure
for badness. He says that one
authority has declared that prema-
ture badness results from too close
and frequent hair-cropping. Ac-
cording to this authority the hair
bleeds to death, just as do sugar
naples, sage palm and grapevines
when exhaustively tapped. This
theory is refuted by the fact that
frequent shaving does not conduce
to baroness. After loss of hair
from fever or other illness cropping
is frequently resorted to successfully
as means of restoration. Per con-
ira, it is urged that women who sell
dom have their hair cut close do not
often become bald. A bald-headed
woman is comparative rarity.
THE hair falls out" says a vege-
tartan, because too much beef is
eaten" To this beef-eater responds
that "too much starchy food is the
root of the trouble" A shoemaker
insisted that the badness on the top
of his head was the result of wear
ing his hat constantly during his in
door work. His belief was strength
ened by the experience of man in
! Indiana, whose hair under his hat
turned gray, while the hair that the
hat did not cover retained its origi-
nal color.
In Denmark the wiseacres insist
that staying out late at night or
undue exposure to the moon makes
the hair fall out. This theory is in
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 advice and now proudly
sports an unmolted topknot.
Unfeeling and libelous writers
have insisted that badness is main.
ly confined to married men, thus
seeking to create the inference that
their hair is pulled out in the course
of some heated matrimonial argu
ment or that badness is providen-
tial .disdensation that lessons the
opportunity for one familiar method
of feminine attack.
Time out of mind badness ha.
been the occasion of soothing anc
jest. The fate of the Hebrew hood
lums who cried, $50 up, thou bald
head" is historical. In our owl
times the scoffer often goes un
punished.
When Henry Clews, the New Yorl
banker, man of dignifed bearing
who is unhappily bald, asked tn,
late lamented Mr.. Travers what dis
guise he should assume in attending
a masked ball, he was advised t.
"sugar-coat his head and go as /;
pill" 1t has become so much thu
habit with the small paragrapher
to insist that badness indicates /;
hot liver and an antic disposition
that sedate gentlemen who no longe
wear their hair have been practically
cut off from the entertainment o
the ballet
But the cause of badness remains
unsolved. There may be too mucl
nitrogen; there may be too mucl
starch; there may be too mucl
moonlight. The Record will no
undertake to solve the doubt of it
correspondent. Too much of any
thing disturbs the equilibrium o
; the system, and may cut off tn
nourishment or overhead or over
! nourish the hair. If compelled t.
prescribe remedy for badness W
might offend the hatters. To G.
without headgear might stimulat
nature to supply her own origina
: device and substitute. Women VIII
do not steam their heads in air-tigh
contrivances usually retain thei
hair, and in countries where peopl
go Undated badness is unknown
Philadelphia Record.