The evening times., 1898-08-25
WOMEN ARE GROWING BALD.
Sounds Dreadful, But Scientist. Saw
II Is True.


1t Is with mingled feelings of low and
alarm that the fair sex will receive the
news from some learned scientists and
physicians that each year women are
becoming more inclined to badness The
women who will receive the information
with alarm are only those who are CON-
tent with their present condition 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 imagined. But few women
have heretofore enjoyed the prerogatiye
Of losing their hair to any marked degree.
and although not so much advertised as
some other defects of the sex, We may
be sure that it has been keenly felt. That
being baldheaded was an attribute which
the privileged sex would themselves lust
as lief forego had nothing to do with the
case. 1t was the general principle. not its
particular application to the front row
al the theater. that aliured. Your ram
pant woman's rightster cares not whether
distinction between the sexes be well
come or otherwise: what. she wants is to
have men and women upon the same
plane. Bald heads may not intrinsically
be acceptable. but men. as a rule. become
baldheaded. while women, as a rule do
not: therefore. bald heads are to be de-
sirod Such is the logic of the woman's
rightster. and the cogent thing about it
Is that 1t Is not strikingly different from
the logic of all women
The fact that men may wear their
hair short. while women must wear II
long. has long ranked in the hearts of
the rampants. says the Chicago Chron-
icie Mos. women radicals generally
cut the Gordian knot SO cunningly tied
by cus:om, by cutting their hair.
"Long-haired men and short-haired wo-
men has long been the accepted way
of describing a company of cranks In
such case. to be sure. the pendulum
has swung so far as to result I'm MOTH
ing more than a reversal of normal con-
dtions. but, whatever its alterations.
they were always more significant of the
revolt among women than among men.
1t Is doubtful IL 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 and persuadins men to leave theirs
uncut Is thing easy for a woman to
accomplish. What she could not do was
her scheme of suffering men to become
bald while women did not.
One reason for men losing their hair
more readily than women Is said to be
because they wear their hate more.
which. If true. probably accounts for the
tenscity with with the club woman
clings to her headgear. II bonnet wear
ing will bring about the desired hirsute
equality. then bonnet wearing 1t 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-
votion to millinery. is chiefly due the
physiological change now taking place
upon the feminine poll. Others likewise
hold the club responsible but declare
that the millinery has nothing whatever
to do with 1t. ut is because women have
begun to think more that badness Is
more prevalent among them say these.
so long as men did most of the think
ing 1t was mostly men who became bald
headed. but now that the brain of wo-
man is being cudgled that which thatch-
es the brain of women Is being thinned
ont"