The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-25
WOMEN LOSING THEIR HAIR.
Baldheadedness ON the Increase Among
the Fair Sex of America.

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1t is with mingled feelings of joy and
alarm that the fair sex viii receive the
news from some learned scientists n
physicians that each year women are
becoming more inclined To badness.
The women who will receive the infor-
nation with alarm are only those who
are content with their present condi-
ton and are not hankering after the
franchise. equal rights and other favors
which only tend to disturb the peace of
the family hearth. The rapture of the
radicals, however. may well be imag-
ined. But few women have heretofore
enjoyed the p~rerogatiye of losing their
hair 10 n marked degree, and al
though not so much advertised as some
other defects of the sex we may be
sure that 1t has been keenly felt. hat
being baldheaded was an attribute
which n privileged sex would them
selves just as lief forego had nothing to
do with the case. 1t was the general
principle, not its particular application
To the front row at the theater, that al
lured. Your rampant woman's rightster
cares not whether a distinction between
the sexes be welcome or otherwise;
what she wants is To hav men and
women upon the same plane. Bald
heads may not intrinsiCally be accept
able, but men, as a rule, become bald
headed, while women. as a rule, do not;
therefore, bald heads are To be desired.
Such is the logic of the woman's rights
ter, and the cogent thing about it is
that ii is not strikingly different from
the logic of all women.
The tact that men may wear their
hair short, while women must wear il
long, has long ranked in the hearts of
the rampants. Most women radicals
generally cut the Gordian knot. so cum
ningly tied by custom. by cutting their
hair. "LOng-haired men and short
haired women has long been the ac-
Cepted W a of describing "A
Of cranks. In such a case. to be sure,
the pendulum had swung so far as to
result in nothing more han a reversal
or normal conditions, but. whatever its
alterations, they We're always more
significant of the revolt among women
h among men. 1t is doubtful If any
man was ever fool enough to wear his
hair long unless some greater fool of a
woman melted him thereto. But merely
cutting her hair short n persuading
men 10 leave theirs uncut is a thing
easy for a woman to accomplish. What
she could not do was to induce nature
To let up with regard to her scheme of
suffering men TO become bald while wo-
men did not.
one reason for men losing their hair
more readily than women is said 10 be
because they wear their hats more,
which, if true, probably accounts for the
tenacity with which the club woman
cltngs to her headgear. If bonnet wear
ing viii bring about the desired hfrsute
equality, then bonnet wearing it shall
be, and no matter how naturally dis
tasteful the process. Some scientists
and physicians hint, indeed, that to The
Women's clubs, with their attendant de-
Notion to millinery, is chiefly due the
Physiological change now taking place
upon the feminine poll. Others like
wise hold the club responsible, but de-
clare that the millinery has nothing
whatever to DO with It. 1T is because
women have begun TO hin more that
baidness is more prevalent among
them say these. so long as men did
most OF the thinking ii was mostly men
who became haldheaded, but now that
the brain Of woman is being cudgeled
that which matches the brain of wo-
man is being thinned out"