The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-17
Beef and linldness.

Beef and Badness,
 An article has been going the rounds of the French papers on the effect of Instrumental music on the hair It seems to me that the author conrounds coincidence with cause, He gives the names of great number of iustru- mentalists and composers who retained old age With yoluminous fleeces. Is not thls rather due to race than to music? So many of the great pianists and other instrumentalists are of Sou thern or Jewish ancestry. Wherever race has carnivorous habits, there one finds arthritism and bad hair or bald nes. When the Jews were confined to ghettoes they, in preparing meat for the table, followed the Talmudic pre- s2ripton by washing it so thoroughly that no trace of red remained in the water It was thus made sodden and unfit for roasting, The appetite for it was not keen, and the Jew was free from the gouty taint which made war rlors and statesmen prematurely old. All the old paintings of Jews represent the voluminous heads of hair amd boards which are so rarely found with gouty tendencies. The sodden meat
 was not a good muscle restorer, but Jews did not take to employments that strained the muscles Rustics who have | a good milk and bread diet have nearly always thick hair and to an advanced age, Middle class persons, who lunctt ,t1 l> q and twenty
 I never saw such 8 collection of bill Hard ball heads as in the Italian Par liament, and vet I did not see any where among the Italian peasantry | scantily covered scalps. Brittany pea sant men almost all have as long hair as their sisters and wives, and they do not lose it as they grow old A very clever doctor whom l know, and who makes capillary diseases a special study assures me that arthritism and bald ness go together. He has often checked | the fall of hair by prescribing a diet of | milk. rice, eggs (sparinglO and fruit with, of course, local treatment. The l rich or well-to-do go on eating meat as | they used when they had either to go about on foot or on horseback, and really needed meat. as hodmen and railway porters still require it. The l finest heads of hair that l remember seeing in regard to length and thick | ness were those of Kalmuck women | deaf to music. They had tresses which
 grew out of the scalp and touched the
 ground when they stood up. But the | 6IloIitIr wa liIya1
 on mares milk, tea and rye bread va-
 ried occasionally by broth made with | the flesh of old horses. One may in so-
 ciety almost tell girls whose parents
 rose from the humblest class to wealth
 by the superior quality of their hair.
 did not see a fine head of hair at St. l Giles's Cathedral in Edinburgh, but saw any number at concert in the grounds of the Glasgow exhibition. Was this because Edinburgh is not
 merely because east windy but west
 endy?-that is to say, inhabited by people of old family who have had meat
 meals for centuries-and that Glasgow
 is a. town of wealthy commercial up- starts, whose fathers lived on milk and
 oatmeal? Verdi has been given as eX-
 employing what instrumental music
 may do for the hair. I should pit
 Rochefort, who does not know a note of music, against him. If Rbchefort
 did not keep his now snowy fleece
 shorn to moderate length and vol
 tune, it would soon outgrow the coal
 black one of Le Sar Peledan, who, by ! the way, has cut his almost to the skull Ito please tha rich and beautiful young
 widow to whom he is engaged Roche
 fort is singllarly sober in eating, and Esays he only took wine once as a child,
 and spat it out.-Parls Correspondence London Truth.