The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-27

theatre ushers, whenever there was
ballet on the programme, escort him
down to the front row without even
glancing at his seat check.
While this might have been consid-
cred an advantage by some people, it
was not pleasing to Mr. Smith, who is
an essentially modest man and adverse
to being made unduly prominent on
any occasion. 1t is said, too, that this
badness was the real cause of his
starting out in search of gold, since he
spent all his patrimony in the purchase
of hair restorers, and it was necessary
for him to do something, no matter
how desperate, to retrieve his fortunes.
Be that as tim ay, he went to Alaska,
and after two years residence there
has returned a modern Sampson, as
far as chevelure is concerned, and he
declares that the transformation is en-
tirely due to the rigors of the climate
in that quarter of the globe,
"The intense cold kills all the germs
and microbes" he asserts, land stimu-
lates the scalp, and nature does the
rest and he proudly exhibited his
lion-like name as proof of what ma
ture can do when she takes a fancy,
unasisted by washes or oils or I'M
guents.
and microbes Observation-Disclosures -u?o.
p. j. Mcleod who has spent twelve
years in Alaska and the Northwest, al
though he has not the pleasure of
knowing Mr.. Smith personally, and did
not, therefore, see the sprouting and
the bourgeoning Of his especial crop of
nodded epidermic cells, still corrobor-
ates his story as to the virtues of that
cline as hair producer.
MY hair was always thick" he says,
$50 I cannot speak from personal ex-
perience, but the way the dogs put on
hair up there is caution; they get as
shaggy as Shetland ponies, and now
/ think Of it, l never saw a bald-head-
ed fellow anywhere around there. To
tell the truth, they all look, after they
have got to work, as though razor
and pair of scissors were far more
needed than a hair restorer, and mis-
sionary barber could do good work
among them"
G.. III. Henderson, who has a claim
on ominion Creek and has been UP in
that vicinity for two years, heartily
echoes Mr. McLeod's statement. There
is something about the intense cold, he
asseverates, that makes the hair on
man and beast flourish nightly. Dan
druff and falling hair are unknown in
that part of the country, but he thinks
that the fact that people are too busy
to bother with their hair" has some
thing to do with it's unusual growth.
"a man who is vain enougth to put
his time in trying to increase the thick
ness Of his hair" in this gentleman's
decision, will generally manage to
worry off what little belongs to him
naturally He will scrub it and put
fertilizer on 1t, and lay awake nights
thinking about it until his head is as
hot as furnace and burns the roots
of it to ashes, and end by getting up
the shiniest kind of a bald head, but
up there 1t is too cool to fool that way
and the hair gets chance for its life"
L. S. Woodstock, an Alaskan of five
years standing, puts in his testimony
In regard to the efficacy of good freez-
ing weather as a hair rejuvenator or
resurrector, and another gentleman re-
Gently returned from the Arctic gold
fields, whom OF having made his pile"
as yet is averse to having his name in
the papers, says he is seriously consid-
ering the practicability of establishing
a hair sanitarium in come reasonably
accessible spot, where he will, for sat
isfactory consideration, entertain bald
headed guests and tell them pleasant
little tales about Alaska, past, present,
and future, to amuse and interest them
and hair-raising ghost story occa-
sionally for it's practical effects, while
upon their denuded craniums will ap-
pear first the fuzz and then the fur,
and then the sleek and glossy hair, the
possession of which is the one great de-
sire of their existence.-San Francisco
Call. .F