The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-19
60 NORTH, BALD-HEAD.
Some May NIiss HIndinE Geld in the KlSudi<o,
but All Will Grow HAIR.
From the San Francisco Cab.


From the San Francisco Cab.
Tho experience Of Rhoderick Dhu Smith, who
recently returned from the Klondike region
with a big budget OF experience, quite q little
sum Of money ,sand q head Of hair which almost
qualities him to take IN engagement as q Cir
cassian girl in a circus, is OF especial interest to
a large contingent Of his fellow men and wo-
men. For be it known that Rhoderick, before
making his perilous way to the Arctic regions.
though otherwise pleasing to look upon and still
on the sunny side Of forty, was the owner Of a
head which made theatre ush"rs, whenever
there was a ballet on the programme, escort
him down to tho front row without even glanc-
ing at his seat check.
While this might have been considered an
advantage by some people, It was not pleasing
to Mr.. Smith, who Is an essentially modest
man and averse to being made unduly promi-
nent on any occasion. 1t is said. too, that this
in search OF gold. since he spent all his patri.
mony in the purchase Of hair reEtorers, and 1t
m mss 9S' So@ dss ISa asR to 70 retrieve aE SsR his %fortGne ao
BE that as it may, he went to Alaska. and
after q two years residence there has returned
concerned, and he declares that the transforms
tion is entirely due to tho rigors of the climate
The Intense cold Kills all the germs ana
microbes" he asserts and stimulates the
exhibited his lion.ike name as proof Of what
nature oan do when she takes a fancy, unaS.
sisted by washes or oils or unguents.
Alaska and the Northwest. although he has not
the pleasure OF knowing Mr.. Smith personally,
bourgeoning OF his especial crop of modified
epidcrmic cells, still Corroborates his story as to
the sN ylFt b.d, of Go that aiw Gli%o , e. E hair he P prod. :sc -,
cannot speak from personal experience, but the
way the dogs put on hair up there Is q %caution;
they get as shaggy as shetland ponies. and now
] think of 1t, l never saw u bald-headed fellow
anywhere around there. To tell the truth. they
all look, after they have got to work. as though
a razor and a pair OF scissors were far moro
needed than a hair r%estorer. and q missionary
barber could do good work among them"
minion Creek and has been up in that vicinity
for two years, heartily echoes Mr.. McLeod's
on man and beast flourish nightly. Dandruf
country, but he thinks that the fact that people
are too busy to bother with their hair has
something to do with Its unusual:growth
in trying to increase the thickness Of his hair"
in this gentleman's decision. will generally
naturally. He will scrub it and put fertilizer on II.
and Law awake nights thinking about it until his
head is as hot as a furnace and burns the roots
Of it to ashes, and end by getting up the shini-
est kind OF n bald head, but up there IL Is too
FOOL to fool that way ard the hair gets q chance
L. S. Woodstock, an Alaskan of Ave years
standing, puts in his testimony in regard to the
efficacy OF good freezing weather as a hair re-
juvenator or resurrcctor, and another gentle.
man rocently returned from tho Arctic gold
fields, who not having made his pile" as yot,
is averse to having his name in the papers.
says he 10 seriously considering the practicable
iy of establishing a hair snnitarium in some
reasonably accessible spot, whore no will, for
. satisfactory consideration, entertain bald.
headed. guests and tell them pleasant little tales
amuse and Interest them. and a hAir-raising
ghost story occasionally for its practical Of
fectS, while upon their denuded craniums will
appear first the fuZz and then tho fur, and then
the sleek and glossy hair. the possession of
which 10 the one great desire Of their existence.