The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-09
HOPE FOR THE HAIRLESS.
The Cold of Alaska, 1t Is Said, Puts
Crop on the BnIdest Head.

from the San Francisco Call.
The experience of Roderick Dhu Smith,
who recently returned from the Klondike
region with a big budget of experience,
! quite little sum of money and a head of
! mar which almost qualities him to take an
! engagement as a Circassian girl in a cir
| Gus IS Of especial interest to a large con-
nngent of his fellow men and women For
be it known that Roderick, before making
MS perilous way to the Arctic regions,
though otherwise pleasing to look upon.
and still on the sunny side Of 49, was the
owner of head of hair which made the
| alter ushers, whenever there was a ballet
on the programme, escort him down to the
mont row without even glancing at his
seat check.
While this might have been considered an
advantage by some people it was not pleas
ing to Mr.. Smith, who is an essentially
modest man and adverse to being made
uhduly 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 ne
cessary for him to do something, no matter
how desperate, to retrieve his fallen for
tunes. 9
Be that as it may, he went to Alaska,
and, after a two years residence there,
has returned modern Samson, as far as
cheveure 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 the 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
fancy, unassisted by washes or oils or I'M
guents.
p. ]. 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 there
fore, see the sprouting and the bourgeon-
ing OF his especial crop of modified epider-
mic cells, stiA corrobora ties his story as
to the virtues of that frigid cline as a hair
producer.
My hair always was thick" he says,
80 | cannot speak from personal exper-
fence but the way dogs put on hair up
there is a caution. They get as shaggy as
Shetland ponies, and now l think of IT,
never saw a bald-headed fellow anywhere
around there To tell the truth, they all
look, after they have got to work, as
though razor and a pair Of scissors were
far more needed than a hair restorer, and
l think a miss onary barber would do good
work among them.
G. II. Henderson, who has a claim on
Dominion Creek, and has been up in that |
vicinity Tor TWO years, heartly echOeS Mr.. |
McLeod's sentiments. There is something |
about the intense cold, he asseverates, that |
makes the hair on man and beast flourish |
nightly. Dandruh and falling hair are |
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 vain enough to put
his time in on trying to increase the thick
ness of his hair" is this genueman's de-
cislon, win genera ly manage to worry
off what little belongs TO him naturally.
He will scrub 1t and put fertilizer on II. Y
and stay awake nights thinking about it
until his head is as hot as a furnace and
burns the roots of II to ashes, and end
by getting up the shiniest kind of a bald
head, but up there it Is too cold to fool
that way, and the hair gets a chance for
lis life"
]. S. Woodstock. an Alaskan of five
Years. standing puts in his testimony in
-egard to the efficacy of good freezing
weather as a hair rejuvenator or resurrec-
or, and another gentleman recently re-
urned from the Arctic gold fields, who,