Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-11
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kiondike' But All VIII Grow Hair.
The experience of Rhoderick Dhu
Smith, who recently returned to San
Francisco from the Klondike region
with big budget of experience, quite
q little sum of money, and head of
hair which almost qualities him to
take an engagement as Circassian
girl in circus, is of especial interest
to a large contingent of his fellow
men and women. 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 hairless
head.
1t is snid, too, that this badness
was the real cause of his starting out
in search of gold, since he spent all
of his patrimony in the purchase OF
hair restorers, and it was necessary
for him to do something, no matter
how desperate, to retrieve his for
tunes.
Be that as it may, he went to Alas.
ka, and after two years. residence
tucIC uto u uiOocIA
and he declares that the transforma-
ton is entirely 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 stimulates the scalp, and ma
ture does the rest," and he proudly
exhibited his lion-llke name as proof
of what nature can do when she takes
fancy, unassisted by washes or oils
or unguents.
P. j. Mcleod, who has spent
twelve years in Alaska and the North
west, although he has not the pleas.
ure of knowing Mr.. Smith personally,
and did not, therefore, see the sprout-
ing of his special crop of modified
epidermic cells, still corroborates his
story as to the virtues of that cline as
hair producer. :
"My hair was always black" he says,
$50 l 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, never saw bald headed
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 hair restorer, and a
missionary barber could do good work
among them"
G.. I'll. Henderson, who has claim
on Dominion 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. Dandruff, and falling hair
are unknown in that part of the coun-
try, but he thinks that the fact that
people are too busy to "bother with
their hair" has something to do with
its unusual growth.
ga man who is vain enough to put
his time in trying to increase the thick
neck 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 it, 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 bald head, but
up there it is too cool to fool that way
and the hair gets a 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 hair rejuvenator or
resurrector, and another gentleman
recently returned from the Arctic gold
fields, who not having ''made his
pile" as yet, is averse to having his
name in the papers, says is seriously
considering the practicability of estab.
fishing hair sanitarium in some
reasonably accessible spot, where hs
will, for a satisfactory consideration,
entertain bald-headed guests.