The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-29
THEORIES ABOUT BADNESS.
why Does the Hair Fall Out ON the Top Of
the Head and Not EIsewhere9

why Does the Hair Fall Out ON tle Top Of
the Head and Not EIsewhere9
A question that often arises and Ia
seldom answered twice in the same way
Is as TO why the hair falls out on the
top OF the head and not Mt the back and
on the sides. The old fashioned theory
is that badness occurs within the lines
marked by mans hat, and as nobody
has ever offered conclusive proof 10 the
contrary that explanation may be the
correct one.
The case was stated the other day 20
two very intelligent BARRIERS. One Of
them thought that the reason why bald
mess occurred at the top of the head was
that the brain came closest to the sur
face there, and this being an age in
which many brains are kept going at
high tension the abnormal amount Of
blood thus carried TO the Uranium pro-
dnced kind Of fever in the upper scalp.
Fevers, as Is well known, often result
in the falling out Of the hair.
The second barber gave variety to the
discussion by eniarging upon the notion
that he had formed from the observa-
tion and reflection Of many years
.'You will notice, = said he, 'that the
first hair q baby has comes in on the top
of the head and falls out before the
child is many weeks old. The hair that
comes TO stay grows thicker and stronger
ON the sides and at the back, and / have
an idea that the growth ON the top Of
the head is always the weakest from
infancy ON to old age. +"
''But how do You account for the fact
that women do not grow bald as men
do?'' queried q skeptical listener.
Account for it? / don't have TO aC-
count for it, - replied the ready witted
second barber. sit isn't so Why, !
used to work I'm an establishment where
they had nine chairs in the mems de-
partment and IL i'm the women's, and /
want 90 tell you that ! learned some
things there that the average man and
the average barber, too, for that mat
ter, doesn't know. If you could appre-
ciate % do the number Of women who
have false hair so artistically arranged
that nobody can tell it from their own
natural tresses, you wouldn't ask why
men grow bald and the other sex
doesn't !"
Hairdressera have their pet theories ON
this subject as well as BARRIERS, and some
Of them are very plausible. But II you
should ask q doctor who was not
ashamed 10 confess his ignorance the
chances are that he would tell you he
didn't know much about It. wv Washing
Hood Stains.
70 the present day the superstition ID
rife that blood stains cannot be washed
ont. During the French revolution 80
priests were massacred In the Carmelite
chapel at Paris, and the stains, 30 called,
Of their blood are pointed ont today.
Sir Walter Scott, in his ''Tales OF O
Grandfather, /" declares that the blood
stains Of David Rizzio, the Italian pri-
waite secretary Of Mary, queen Of Scots,
who was stabbed at Holyrood palace by
certain Protestant leaders Of her court,
aided by her husband. Darnley, are still
to be seen.
In Lancashire the natives show q
stone called the "bloody stone, " which
was 90 marked to show heavens dis
pleasure at some of Cromwell's soldiers
atrocities at Gallows Croft. I'm MAC
beth, /" act 8, scene |, Shakespeare al
ludes to the idea. Yet here's spot. -
The truth is blood cannot be cas-
lily expunged. In the first place, IL that
OF murdered person, 1t is not attempt
ed. In the next place, blood contains
oxide of iron, which sinks deep into the
hber Of wood and proves indelible to or
dinary washing. Thus it is true that
stones OF porous nature and wood not
OF the hardest kind are susceptible to
the stain OF blood produced by the oxide
of iron which the blood contains But
the blood OF pig is as good as that Of
o murdered man. Pearson's Weekly.
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