The age-herald., 1901-06-09
GAN YOU TELL WHEN
 A MAN WEARS A WIG The Wigmaker Has Become So Dexerous That Mans Wife
 Cannot Tell When Her Husband Has False Hair
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Running over the list o: your male ac- auaintanees who are beyond B years old and who still have good heads of hair. don't be led into a bet that this hair is all their own. For such of those as are really red-headed in the full sense of the term such bet is pretty safe; but for those ranging in locks from gold, through drab brown and black into gray and silver white, the chances are that you might have shared the same office with man addicted to a toupee as big as his double palms and never know of the deception.
 For while the makers of false teeth, artificial limbs, and glass eyes have all been making giant strides in the last twenty years, the wigmaker. too. has not been asleep. Just now he is able to make a bunch of hair weighing less than nature uses and make such a showing with 1t as to cause the old to feel that she has been a spenthrift since the days of Eden. Once a mans wig weighed half a pound and looked about as natural as a gray army blanket with horse hairs on 1t. Now, a wig may weigh four ounces, with the skin of the head showing in the part and no wind short of Kan sas zephyr could lift it from it's dome of thought. Or if only bald spot need be covered toupee weighing one ounce may be made to hug that spot in the middle and blend with the real hair all round the edges until a pound of coun- try butter couldn't tell the real hair from the false If the bald spot is in the line of the part" that path of the comb will show beautifully through 1t. with all the flesh tints that belong to the scalp
 Vanity Not the Cause.
 According to Arthur Kershaw, man. ager for a wigmaking house, there are more wigs and toupees in Chicago than are dreamed of in our philosophy. Even the natter has no conception of the false locks that he covers every day in the course of business. Yet MT. Kershaw insists that not one man in three who wears wig or toupee does so because of vanity.
 ,1f you don't know how many men wear wigs said he. neither do you know how many wear porous plasters. Yet there is often the same general reas- on behind the wearing of them both. I have made wigs for scores of men in Chicago simply to keep their heads warm They would begin to lose their hair, could not stop 1t falling out, and the first thing they knew they were hay ing neuralgia. catarrh, colds or cricks in their necks, because of drafts across a bald scalp. A doctor would tell them Ao get wig or else wear a skull cap, and as between the two men seem to prefer the wig.
 "As to vanity. however, find that few men who are bald concern themselves because of looks. A few elderly chap pies may wear wigs in order to preserve a youthful appearance, but, as a rule, the real man doesn't care. It only when a draft comes skating across his bald crown and he begins to sneeze and water at the eyes that he concerns himself.
 Really, there is a good deal of natural prejudice against the wig and the toupee. : though just why there should be is not plain. The toupee especially is adapta- ble to a bald spot of any size, can be made to fit the head like the skin, and so far as telling the false hair from the real a mans own mother couldn't do It."
 In proof of his assertion MT. Kershaw picked up a toupee from the counter, put it on his head, walked to g. glass, combed 1t out and asked how 1t looked.
 ."sIm not bald by any means" he said but I wore this last winter, and incidentally I won the cigars from a cus- toner on a bet made after I told him I was wearing a toupee. He had come in, wanting a wig, and I had suggested a toupee for the spot. He was certain it would be too clumsy. I asked if he thought mine was clumsy. He was so certain that I didn't have a false hair on my head that he wanted to bet s5 against it. We compromised on cigars, and when pulled the toupee off he could