The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1901-05-09
A Study Of
BaldheadS
RY A M GREELEY

BY "a. NJ GREELEY
II is the little things that give tn,
greatest amount of pleasure or breed
the biggest chunk of red-eyed trouble
I have seen men dented by having {
carload Of logs fall upon them with
out a shrek, yet gargle their throats
with profanity and weep profciently
when bit BY afying chip. Man has
the fortitnde to withstand great
troubles; but is the little naggine
difficulties which blister. the mental
4 skin and produce nervous jimjams.
i Loss Of hair may betagged as a speci-
/ men OF human annoyances that rob
4 life OF everlasting satisfaction. To
4 the one who has it not, baldheaded-
4 ness may be regarded philosophically.
i But the man who sees the fringe on
| his cocoanut growing thinner day by
i day, feels a secret sorrow which the
i thoughtless world cannot appreciate,
nor the use OF hair reviewers assuage.
Pride goeth before a fall--out of hair,
and ones equanimity grows dizzy
from q shining pate. Every person
feels that a hair on the head is worth
two in the butter, and the man whose
forehead curves upward and to the
back Of his collar without a trace of
underbrush upon it has great cause
to mourn. AS skating rink for flies
i he is a public benefactor. but such a.
calling is too humble for an ambi-
ltious man. If some one would lie
awake nights and discover q true
cure for the bereft head or thin hair
he would probably reap more grati-s
tnde than the inventor OF appendicitis.
There are four.varieties Of common
baldness --senile, premature, badness
due TO constitutional disorders and
badness due to local diseases Of the
the scalp. Then there was consider
able badness developed almost an
epidemic at times during the times
when Indians and their little hatchets
gathered slight love tokens from the
palefaces in the bloody past. We
might say here that the Belgian hare
craze was also developed during these
times. During 1861 a party Of Sioux
Indians overlook q party Of emigrants
from Belgium, near New Ulm, and IN
the fight which ensued the red men
succeeded in raising the first !" Belgian
hairs il this state.
Senile badness, like wrinkles and
gray hair, is merely q thermometer Of
the skin which registers the change Of
time. Premature badness is senile
badness coming too soon and
without sufficient advertising. It is
more or less hereditary, and is a gem
tie reminder that there were people on
earth before US. The condition OF the
scalp is the same in either case, and
medical relief is very much powerless
ia both. Partial or complete badness
il in partnership with disorders Of the
general health Of various kinds. A
fair trial of typhoid fever usually
checks the hair industry quite
severely. But this brand Of badness
soon disappears with the fever, and
the hair, like the robins OF spring,
comes back one by one.
Badness due to nervous strain is
quite common with women; not SO
common with men unless they are
welded to one Of these overwrought
women. There is nothing SO
conducive to the falling out OF hair as
to have afalling out with woman
when her fingers itch and your hair
is long.
Badness is often produced by over
work or severe shock. But the CRATE
full theory that badness comes from
too much brain matter which expands
and pushes the hair out is not built
upon facts. We have seen men with
a perfect desert upon their head and
with just as barrena waste inside their
head. With all due respect to the
bareheaded man we must say that the
lack of hair is no more evidence of
great brain power than that Anoka
Union Pease knows more than Pad
erewiski.
Dandruff is the principal cause of
badness next to hereditary. When
once this mico-organism finishes its
work it is goodbye to the hair cropl
forever Let us then smash dandruff
in its infancy. Let us spare not a
single bough. Arise in our might /
and with courage and a fine tooth |
brush Danish Mr.. Dandrnff. In the
lives of all of us there comes an hour
when we need the courage of Daniel:
an hour when our heart withers and
shoots into our throat; when fear
struggles with conviction and every
noble impulse seems freezing in our
veins; when we long for a deputy and
wish to transact our business through
an agent. That hour comes when we
naveto enter store to buy finetooth