Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-01-05
SURE CURE FOR BADNESS,
Turn Whaier ana Go Arcticward,
Says "a Man Who Knows.

Turn Whofer ana Go Arcticyvard
Says Man Who Knows
Talk OF hair restorers," said the
captain of sound steamboat. who was
whaler once, none of them IL in II
with the air OF the arctic regions. A
man with thin hair who fails to get q
new crop If he goes within the arctic
circle is n hopeless case. | have seen
whalers who got bald when they staid
at home for n year or two and got q
new crop of hair every time they went
toward the north pole eli a whaling ex-
petition.
How do | account for it? Ask me
something harder. The farther you go
north the land animals get shaggicr.
1t is provision of nature against the
cold. When the arctic winter ap-
proaches, the reindeer, the bears and
other animals take on n thicker coat of
hair or fur. Similarly the hair on the
human head thickens when you go far
north, especially on the approach of
winter. 1t Is a fact. Now, 1 don't
want you to think that, once the folli-
Giles of the hair are dead. new hair al
ways comes even i'm northern regions.
Sometimes when a man is apparently
as bald as billiard ball the follicles
are not dead, and there is hope for him.
Il remember remarkable case when
l was mate of the whaler Sea Foam In
the latter part of the fifties. The boat
swain was n man named James
Rogers, but he was generally known
as Badly because he had not a sim
gle hair on his scalp. He was n good
whaler and an all around good seaman,
and in spite of the fact that he had
tried it for years with no result APP
parent to the eye lac had a firm belief
In whale oil as hair restorer. He
must have used gallons of 1t in his
time. At the time | speak of we were
in the neighborhood of Boring strait,
and it was melancholy to see us all
with thick, matted locks, including
some who We're bald when they came
away, while poor Badly was as
smooth on the scalp as ever. Well,
we Killed the qucerest looking speci-
men OF whale l ever saw, Badly
throwing the first harpoon. Its tail
tapered Off longer than that of any
other whale we had ever met with be-
OF peculiar color and had n musky
scent. Badly as n matter of course,
plastered his scalp with the oil until
1t was running down his face and neck.
One does not need to follow hygienic
rules regarding cleanliness in those lat
itudes, where II is too cold for disease
germs. Within two days 1t grew much
colder, and we were frozen In among
Ice foes. | never felt such cold before
or since, and nearly every one of the
crew was more or less frost bitten.
We used the ice saw industriously and
in As hours more got clear of the ice
and into smooth water and sailed
southwark. A week later Badly
came running out of the foc'sle with
his eyes bulscing, shouting: It's grow
in. It's growinr
whats growingr says /, thinking
he was getting nutty. My ha-ha-hair,'
says he, waving his fur cap, which he
had taken of, and pointing TO his head.
Sure enough, there was growth of
downy hair like that of n baby all over
his head, and, what was remarkable,
the hair had come TO stay. Before the
voyage was over he had fairly thick
natural head covering, and IL he didn't
care for 1t afterward no one was to
blame but himself. He said that IL
was the new brand OF whale oil that
started his hair growing again, but
say IL was the extreme cold that did
the trick. After that concluded that
no one could give me any points on
hair restorcrs. II you want thick hair,
so north."-.New York Sun.