Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-02-09
SURE CURE FOR Badness.
Turn WhnIer and Co Away Up To.
ward the North Pole. Says a
Man WHO knows.

"Talll of hair restorers," said the
captain of a sound steamboat, who was
whaer once, none of them is in il
with the air of the arctic regions. a
man with thin hair who fails to get a
new crop if he goes within the arctic
circle is hopeless case. | have seen
whalers who got bald when they stayed
at home for a year or two and got q
new crop of hair every time they went
toward the north pole on whaling
expedition.
"IIow do / account for it? Ask me
something harder. The farther you
go north the land animals get shaggier,
1t is provision OF nature against the
cold. When the arctic winter APP
proaches, the reindeer, the bears and
other animals take on thicker coat
of hair or fur. Similarly the hair on
the human head thickens when you
so far north, especially on the APP
proach of winter. 1t is fact Now
| don't want you TO think that once
she follicles of the hair are dead new
hair always comes even in northern
regions. Sometimes when man is APP.
parently as bald as billiard ball the
follices are not dead and there is hope
for him.
81 remember a remarkable case when
| was mate of the whaler Sea Foam in
the latter part of the tfties. The
boatswain was a man named James
Rogers, but he was generally known
as Badly, because he had not a single
hair on his scalp. He was good whaler
and an all-around good seaman, and
in spite of the fact that he had tried
it for years with no result apparent
TO the eye, be had a firm belief in whale
oil as hair res;orer. He must have
used gallons of it in his time. At the
time | speak of we were in the neigh.
borhood of Behring's straits and it was
melancholy to see us all with thick
matted locks, including some who were
bald when they came away, while poor
Badly was MS smooth on the scalp as
ever. Well. we killed the queerest.
looking specimen of a whale ! ever
saw, Badly throwing the first harpoon
It's tail tapered Off longer than that oil
any other whale we had ever met with
before and the oil that came from il
was of peculiar color and had a musky
scent. Badly as matter of course
plastered his scalp with the oil unit
| il was running down his face and neck
One does not need to follow hygieniC
rules regarding cleanliness in those
ATTITUDES, where il is too cold for dis
case germs. Within two days il grew
much colder and we were frozen in
among ice foes. ! never felt such colo
before or since and nearly every one
of the crew was more or less frost bit.
ten. We used the ice saw industriously
| and in As hours more got clear of the
| ice and into smooth water and sailec
southwark. A week later Badly camt
ing out of the foc'sle with his eye!
bullying. shoutin': It's CROWN! IT.
growin!'
whats growinc?' says I, thinking
he was getting nutty. My ha-ha-hair,
says he. waving his fur cap which he
had taken Off, and pointing to his head
Sure enough there was a growth O
downy hair like tina. of baby all ovei
his head and what was remarkable, thC
hair had come 10 stay. Before tht
voyage was over he had a fairly thicl
natural head covering and if he didn''
care for il afterward no one was tC
blame but himself. He said that it wa!
the new brand of wnale oil that staItec
his hair growing again, but ! say /
was the extreme cold that did the trick
After that concluded that no one could
give me any points on hair restorers
If you want Thick hair go north. IN
Y. Sun.