The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-08
Eseef and Badness.

Paris Letter to thes London Truth.l
 An article has been going the rounds of the French papers on the effect of in strumental music on the hair It seems to me that the author confounds coincidence with cause. He gives the names of a great number of instrument talists and composers who retained old age with volufaineus feeees. Is not this rather due to race than to music? So many of the great pianists and other instrumentaIists are of southern or Jewish ancestry. Wherever q race has carnivorous habits, there one finds ar thritism and bad hair, Or badness When the Jews were confined to ghet- tos they, in preparing meat for the ta- ble, followed the Talmudie prescription
 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 warriors and statesmen prematurely old. All the old paintings of Jews represent them with
 the yoluminous heads of hair and boards which are so rarely found with gouty tendencies. The sodden meat was not good muscle restorer, but Jews did not take to employments that strained the muscles. Rustics who have 8 good milk and bread diet have nearly always thick hair, and to an ad- vanced age Middle class persons, who lunch and dine on meat. rarely have af- ter twenty-five.
 I never saw such collection of bill Mard-ball heads as in the Italian Parli- ament, and yet I did not see anywhere among the Italian peasantry scantily- covered scalps. Brittany peasant men almost all have as long hair as thei" sisters and wives, and they do not lose it as they grow old. A very clever doc tor, whom I know, and who makes ca pillary diseases a special study, assures
 me that arthritism and badness go to- gether. He has often checked the fall of hair by prescribing a diet of milk, rice, eggs tsparingly), and fruit, with, of course, local treatment The rich, or
 well-to-do, go on eatin-s meat as they used, when they had either to go about on foot or on horseback, and really needed meat, as Iodmen and railway porters still require it. The finest
 heads of hair that I remember seeing, in regard to length and thickness, were those of Kalmuck women deaf to mu- sic. They had tresses which grew out of the scalp, and touched the ground
 when they stood up. But the quality was coarse. These women live on mares milk, tea, and rye bread, varied
 occasionally by broth made of the flesh of old horses. One may in society al most tell girls whose parents rose from
 the humblest class to wealth. by the superio- quality of their hair I did not see 9 fine head of hair at St. Giles Ca thedrai, in Edinburgh. but saw any number at q concert in the grounds of the Glasgow exhibition. Was this b. cause Edinburgh is not merely east
 windy but wsst-endy ?--that is to say. inhabited by people Of old family whC have had meat meals for centuries and that Glasgow is a town of wealthy, commercial upstarts. whose fathers lived on milk and oatmeal? Verdi has been given as exemplifying what in strumental music may do for the hair should pit Koch fost, who does not know note of music. against him. Ic Rochefort did not keep his now snowy fleece shoTn to, moderate length anC
 volume. il would soon outErow tn eoal-black one of Le Sar Psledan. who,