The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-25
ODD FACTS ABOUT BAL,
Hair as a Sign of intellectually
About Men with Shining Pal

Hair as a Sign of Intellectuality ories
About Men with Shining Patti
A French doctor who has beeLy rudy-
ing the subject for many yea says
that out of one hundred peor from
twenty to thirty years of age, IS Pm at
hazard, twenty will be d to
be bald n
Women conceal such defclency
with great cleverness, and a not
often detected, but while thevloss of
hai~ is not so prevalent among tfen as
among men, yet if the proportion OF
the fair sex whose heads are as dooth
as doOr-knobs could be accdrately
learned the results would undoubtedly
be startling. ~
Between the ages of thirty4x and
forty the percentage of baldf
rises to forty-seven.
The critical period, however, Is be-
tween forty and fifty years. 0uqof one
hundred chance subjects but tfenty-
five had a fairly good growth q mar,
while the other seventy-fve were al
most entirely destitute of capillary
covering. When the sixtieth Jsar is
past, this French doctor assert, 1t IS
rare to find man who has hair cough
on the top of his head to make PARTING
possible.
1t is consoling to know, hFever,
that this affection is an almost cFtaln
sign of intellectual activity, for lrala
workers are most liable .toAsssS ~ the
other hand, people of the labbring
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hands, are generally exempt from
badness until they have passed beyond
the sixty year mark Why the "v-
erage workingman, who taxes no par
ticular care of his head thach, should
be able to preserve it Longer than the
man who spends much TIM in having
it brushed and shampooedb mystery
not yet explained.
Among horses it has been remarked
that the name of the thopughbred is
thinner than that which ornaments the
neck of his humber brothe who drags
q dray or horse-car.
Another curious thing is that
strong growth of hair is generally in
dicative of longevity MIST centena-
rians have extraordinary hads of hair.
There is no rule without lis exception,
| however. Bismarck is an octcgena-
rian of wonderful vitality, but almost
utterly 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
n
ested in reading of the ion chancel-
lor's birthday fetes, not long ago, from
writing him for lock of hair, which
| he said he would hand down as pre-
cious relic to his heirs. In due time
his letter came back with Prince Bis
marck's marginal notation: Entirely
impossible"
! In London there is baldheaded
| club, every member of which must
have smooth and shiny pate. One OF
! their favorite amusements is to attend
| in a body music halls and theaters
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
/ dlSlC anu oShb
rows, and throughout the performances
they receive more or less noticein the
way Of friendly remarks from the gal
lery.
Not many years ago there was
! Partisan wit and boulevardier named
Siraudin, who would have been eligible
to the presidency of the London club,
for his head was absolutely destitute
of hair. One hot day he was sitting
bareheaded at one of the tables ont of
/ doors on the boulevard, with number
of friends about He noticed hair on
his coatsleeve and carefully picked it
up and placed it Oh top of his head
amid the laughter of his companions.
| Suddenly he began to mop his face
with his handkerchief and show every
sign of excessive suffering from the
heat.
"Dieu! How warm l am" he ex-
claimed, exhaustedly, a couple of
times. Then the reason for it occurred
| to him, and he cried as he raised his
| hand to his head:
'Ah! l know what makes me so
warm. It's my hair, and he carefully
removed it and placed it on the table
as he would a wir N V World