Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
GO HATLESS TO GROW HAIR.
The Curious Custom of. n Family OF
Bald Heads in a Califor-
mia Town.

south Of San Jose, nature has revealed
q new potency for building up degen-
Grating humanity.
From the air of the Santa Clara val
ley has been drawn the natural ele-
ments of hair growing, and these ele-
ments have been focused upon the
heads of two men, who have devoted
themselves, bareheaded, to the expert
ment.
These men compose the male portion
of the family known in Madrone as
1.-The hatless Peets." They never wear
hats. In the burning sun, in the pour
ing rain, in winds, and in fogs, by day
light and by night, the Poets go their
way untopped by aught save natures
hirsute coverlet. For more than year
the brothers Peet have been barehead-
ed. They are likely to go bareheaded
for the rest of their days.
The brothers Peet are sons of the
late Rev. Robert B. Peet, who died of
heart failure very suddenly year age
while sitting in a chair in a church at
I'alo Alto.
Mr.. Peet was Presbyterian divine.
He went from one district to another
III this state, lending thereto the prof.
it's of his learning and of his goodness
as long as he was spared to an I'M
worthy world.
During his protracted itinerancy he
made his headquarters at beautiful
home near Madrone, where his wife,
daughter and two sons have resided
permanently since their arrival here
from the east, some IL years ago. Now
the daughter is abroad. The two sons
and the mother still abide aff1uently at
the old place.
They are people of cultivated tastes,
anda familiarity with the higher things
the world has to offer for recreation
and mental profit; in their home in the
Madrone country they have surround
ed themselves with art and literature
and music; when they go forth from
their dooryard they ride in swell trap
with tandem pair of thoroughbreds,
d. go astride of well-groomed ponies.
The Madroneites call them English.
That is the penalty of aristocracy in
Madrone.
This going without hat is hair
raising proposition. It has raised
great crop of hair for the Poets, who
were almost bald when they began un-
hating. Shakespeare could raise hair
if there were any to raise make each
particular hair stand on end" in fact
but he failed to pass when he found a
reader who failed to fit his pict ire of
the ''fretful porcupine." Fright such
as Shakespeare demanded must have
have had full set Of hirsute quilts to
| work on.
When the Peet family finally threw
off it's hats it had on it's heads very lit
lie in common with the porcupine-
there was scarce enough hair among
the lot to furnish one good upstarting
| of locks DER tale
''Whose lightest word would harrow up
their souls.''
1t was because of this sparseness atop
Of their heads that the Poets ceased ar
raging them in derby's and fedoras;
they concluded that heads entirely bare
might be taken care of by nature if left
wholly to her discretion. They ex-
posed their thin locks to the rains and
to the sunshinings, through storms and
through baking heats, and the winds
blew upon their hatless pates in winter
and summer as they blew upon the
grass in the fields.
Then the hair began to grow upon
the Peet heads. From snowballs they
grew to chrysanthemums- from Bill
Nyes to Paderewyskis In a year the
lof6ng of hats resulted in as luxuriant
q crop, of hair as was ever recorded in
fertile Santa Clara valley. When the
heroes of this remarkable experiment
ride into town nowadays, their fluffy
heads holding the center of interest
high above a fine trap and tandem
team, they inspire in those who know
their purpose feeling of profound re-
spect for the discovery they have
worked out of nature, as we'll as for
the courage they display in doing as
they please, regardless of the DEGREES
Of fashion and of civilization-even in
Madrone.-San Francisco Examiner.
| New Scene Needed.
Theater-Goer-The love scene in your
play isn't half so natural as it used to
b. last season. The same people do it,
too.