Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-07-10
ODD FACTS ABOUT BADNESS.

oUD ThSIo hDOOl DhLUNESS.
A French doctor, who has been
studying the subject for many years
says that out of hundred people from
twenty to thirty years of aga, taken
at hazard, twenty-seven will be found
to be bald. Women conceal such de-
floiency with great cleverness, and are
not often detected, but while the loss
of hair is not SO prevalent among them
as among men. yet if the proportion
of the fair sex whose heads are as
smooth as door knobs could be accur-
ately learned the results would un
doubtedly be startling. Between the
ages of thirty and forty the percentage
of bald heads rises to forty-seven.
The critical period. however. is be-
tween forty and fifty years. Out of
hundred chance subjects, but twenty
five had fairly good growth of hair.
while the other seventy-five were al
most entirely destitute of capillary COW
ering. When the sixtieth year is past.
this French doctor asserts, it is rare to
find a man who has enough hair ON the
top of his headd to make parting pos
sible.
1t is oonsoling to know. however,
that this ailliotion is an almost GER
tain sign of intellectual activity. for
brain workers are most liable to it.
On the other hand. people Of the labor
ing classes, who gain their bread with
their hands, are generally exempt from
badness until they have passed beyond
the sixty year mark. Why the aver
age workingman, who takes no partic-
ular care of his head thatoh, should be
able to preserve it longer than the man
who spends much time in having it
brushed and sbampooed is mystery
not yet explained. Among horses it
has been remarked that the name Of
the thoroughbred is thinner than that
which ornaments the neck of his hum
bier brother who drags dray or a
horse-car.
Another curious thing is that
strong growth Of hair is generally indi-
cative of longevity. Most centenar-
ians have extraordinary heads of hair.
There is no rule without its exception,
however. Bismarck is an octogena1ian
of wonedrful vitality, but almost ut
terly bald. For some years European
caricaturists have been exaggerating
and making fun of the three hairs
which he has left. This did not deter
an enthusiastic admirer of his-an
American-who had been much inter-
ested in reading of the Iron Chancel-
lol s birthday fetes not long ago, from
writing him for lock Of his hair,
which he said he would hand down as
precious relic to his heirs. In due
time his letter came back with Prince
Bismarck's marginal notation: EN-
tirely impossible.
In London there is a Baldheaded
Club every member of which must
have smooth and shiny pate. One
of their favorite amusements is to at
tend in a body music halls and theatres
where the ballet is feature. The at
tention of the audience, however, is
! always riveted ON the array Of bald
heads as their owners file down the
aisle and seat themselves in the front
rows, and throughout the performance
they received more or less notice in the
way VI lIltuuly I6udIho lIOIu ouo gar
: lery.
Not many years ago there was a
Partisan wit and boulevardier named
Siraudin. who would have been ELI
gible to the presidency of the London
club, for his head was absolutely des-
titute of hair. One hot day he was
sitting bare-headed at one of the tables
out of doors in the boulevard. with a
> number of friends about. He noticed
5 hair ON his coatsleeve and carefully
picked it up and placed it on top of
S his head amid the laughter of his COM
panions. Suddenly he began to mop
{ his face with his handkerchief and
' show every sign of excessive suffering
: from the heat.
: "Dieu! How warm I am." he ex-
Q claimed exhaustedly a couple of times.
Q then the reason for it occurred to him.
: and he cried as he raised his hand to
s his head:
Q "Ah! l know what makes me SC
r warm. It's my hair!" and he care
n fully removed it and placed 1t on the
O table as he would wig.
@ "Did you ever notice the fact" asks