The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-12-12
THE WILD HAIR FAD.
A Man Who Cures All Ills of the Eye by
Pulling Out Eyelashes.

A Man Who Cures All His Of the Eye by
Pulling Out Eyeiashes.
There is a fellow in Pittsburg, known
as the "wild hair man, who, accord
ing to The Leader cf that city, is doing
q thriving business. He goes the rounds
of the town pulling wild hairs out
OF peoples eyes. He is u big, sturdy
mill worker, and he lie curing all dis
eases of the eye, real and imaginary, by
pulling "wild hairs'' out Of the eyes Of
those who will give him q chance.
In the Office Of The Leader, which
this quack had invaded, the writer saw
divers men passing from desk to desk
exhibiting something which seemed to
be most carefully treasured and then
wrapping it up and putting it away in
he safest pocket. And other men went
around weeping %copiously and wiping
tears from their dripping eyes.
All Of which was most mysterious.
Every M is curious in q newspaper Of
fee. They are built that way. If you do
not know what the other fellow is
about. you at once make up your mind
you are going to find out. And you gen.
orally succeed.
These unheard Of proceedings at once
started the writer on a tour Of i~nvesti.
cation. And when no one would tell
what was in the little paper SO careful.
~ treasured the Office boy was sought.
And what the Office boy in a newspaper
office does not know is not worth know.
ing.
"They are getting wild hairs pulled
out Of their eyes," he explained, land
they have the hairs wrapped up in those
little papers so that they can show them
to their wives when they go ho41e."
Then the finger Of scorn was pointed
at these men, and they were held up to
unseemly ridicule by the writer, who
had a vivid remembrance Of a grand
mother who pulled out half of the long
lashes of a certain little girl when the
latter's mother was absent from home,
running the appearance of her eyelashes
forever.
But they stoutly declared that they
felt better already since the wild hairs
were removed and added that the mil!
man had removed similar hairs from
many Of the dignitaries Of Pittsburg.
To prove their statements, the names Of
divers lawyers. n judge and many
prominent business men were given
who had been treated by the aforesaid
mill man.
This was getting serious, so one Of
P%ittsburg's leading o~culists was inter-
viewed on the "wild hair fad.
He laughed merrily when questioned
on this subject.
II have had as patients a number Of
the people who permitted that mill man
to pull out their eyelashes," he said.
"In fact, l have heard Of him from
oil sides. He is working among both
the rich and poor. He pulls the lashes
out of the latter's eyes for nothing if
they have no money to pay him. It is a
fad with him. He really believes he is
helping them.
IA more absurd notion could not ex.
list than that there are wild hairs in
the eyes" he declared. "When the eye.
lashes are in their normal position,
those on the lower lid grow outward
and downward, those on the upper LID
outward and upward. When these wild
hair fiends see one that is out of the
regular position, he declares that it has
awhile root. 1t is a wild hair and must
be pulled out. That is all there is in
the wild hair idea. .,.
'''It is a very old notion, prevalent, Of
course, among people who are ignorant
concerning the treatment and care Of
the eye. I thought il was dying out and
was surprised to learn that this mill
man could find g % many people who
would permit him to pull hairs out Of
their eyes. I have had to treat a num-
Der Of his patrons.
"You cannot say too much about the
folly of permitting any n to pull out
che ~eyelashes."