The times., 1899-07-07
HOPE FOR THE BALD.
AIasla's Cold Said to Produce the
Most Gunurinnt Tresscs.
fFrom the San Francisco Call.l

Nrom the San Francisco CALI
Tho experience of Roderick Dhu Smith,
who recently returned from the Klondyke
region with a big budget of experience.
quite a little sum of money. and a head
OF hair which almost qualities him to take
an engagement OF a Circassian girl in
a circus. is OF special interest to a large
contingent of his fellow men and women.
For be it known that Roderick, before
making his perilous way To the Arctic re-
gions, though otherwise pleasing to look
upon and still on the sunny side OF forty.
was the owner of a head of hair which
made theatre ushers, whenever there was
ballet on the programme, escort him
down to the front row without even glanc-
ing at his seat check.
While this might have been considered
an advantage by some people ii was not
pleasing TO Mr.. Smith, who is an essen
TALLY modest man and averse to being
made unduly prominent on any occasion.
II is said too. that his 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 fallen
fortunes.
Be that as ii may, he went to Alaska,
and, after two years residence there has
returned a modern Samson. as far as
chevelure is concerned, and he declares
that the transformation is entirely due to
the rigors Of the climate in that quarter
of the globe.
The intense cold kills all germs and
microbes" he asserts land stimulates the
scalp, and nature does the rest and he
proudly exhibits his lionlike name as proof
of what nature can do. when she takes
a fancy, unassisted by washes or oils or
unguents
P. J. Mcleod. who has spent twelve
years in Alaska AID the Northwest. al
though he has not sha pleasure of know
ing Mr.. Smith personally. and did rot,
therefore. see the sprouting and the bour-
geoning of his especial crop OF modified epi-
deemic cells, still corroborates his story
as to the virtues of that frigid cline as a
hair producer
My hair always was thick" he says,
so / cannot speak from personal exper-
fence. but the way dogs put on hair up
there is a caution. They gel 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 a razor and a pair of scissors were
far more needed than a hair restorer. and
think missionary barber would do good
work among them"
G. II. Henderson, who has a claim on
Dominion Creek and has been up in that
McLeod's sentiments. There is something
about the intense cold, he asserts, that
makes the hair on man and beast flourish
nightly. Dandruff 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
something to do with its unusual growth.
THE man who is vsin enough to put his
time in on trying TO increase the thick
ness of his hair" is this gentleman de-
cision. will generally manage to worry
off what little belongs 10 him naturally.
He will scrub it and put fertilizer on it,
and stay awake nights thinking about it
until his head is as hot as a furnace
and burns the roots of it to ashes, and end
by getting up the shiriest kind of a bald
head. but up there it is too cold to fool
that way, and the hair gets chance for
its life
]. S. Woodstock. an Alaskan of five
years standing, puts in his testimony in
regard to the efficacy of good freezing
weather as a hair rejuvenator or resurrec-
tor and another gentleman recently re-
turned from the Arctic gold fields, who.
not having made his pile yet, is
averse TO having his name in the papers,
says he is seriously considering the prac-
ticability of establishing hair sapitar-
ium in some reasonably accessible spot,
where he will, for a satisfactory considera-
tion. entertain bald-headed guests, and tell
them pleasing little tales about Alaska