The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-05-13
listers so much. God grant you cour-
age, wisdom, consecratiop, to speak the
truth. the whole truth and nothing but
the truth
HAIRLESS JAPANESE.

A MicrObe from FOrmoSa IHdl ~
Alarming the Women of Japan.
A strange disease has just made
it's appearance in Toxic and in
various other parts of Japan,
and is now spreading rapidly to the
CONSERVATION of the people 1t is said
to come from Formosa and it only at
lacks the cells Of the hair, which it de-
stroys once and forever. leaving the
scalp as bare as billiard ball.
But although the vice president of
the house of representatives and many
others of the sterner sex have fallen
victims to this malady, few foreigners
here can find it in their hearts to SYM
pathize with them in their affection or
listen to their lamentations without
grin, for the bristly hair of Japanese
sticks up so much like the hairs of
backing brush, in the opinion of the
outlander, he is we'll rid of it,
Far different, however, is the case
of the fair sex. The ladies are mex
pressibly terrified indeed, at the pros
pect of loosing their glstening coils
Of Jet black hair, which constitute their
glory, their pride. Much could the
writer speak on this particular subject.
He could tell Of the weekly and fort
nightly visits of the "kami-yui, or fe-
male hair-dresser, even to poor faml-
lies; of the length of time during which
on these occasions, the proud ladies of
the land as we'll as the damsels of low
degree, submit their long, raven tress-
es to the daft manipulation Of the OPP
orator aforementioned; of the Wondrous
fabric that is the result-a fabric that
reminds one now of the comb or a
proud and beautiful bird, now Of the
sepals of the soldier orchis, now of
some rare work of art wrought out of
human hair by master hand and lac
quered over with the priceless lacquer
of the old artists; of the bearer of this
crown-that is, all japanese woman
hood-having for its preservation the
use at night a special kind of pillow,
might easily be mistaken by an I'M
sophisticated American for an Oriental
instrument of torture; of the keen ar
tistic perception which the demure lit
tie Japanese ''mus'me" shows in CIV
ing dignity by the erection thereon OF
this coronet of hair, with Its tortoise
shell comb and it's brilliant ribbon to
| head which without these aids would
it must be confessed-be pear-shaped,
indeterminate and feeble. On all these
matters and on Others ~-appertainfng
thereunto would the writer speak were
it not that some of the fair readers
might resent the fact that so much in
| formation on this particular subject
had been CLEANED by mere man. y
! From what has been said, however,
| it will be evident that Japanese ladies
| have every reason to regard the dis
! ease from Formosa with apprehension,
nor is that apprehension baseless, for
| many "geishas'' have already fallen
victims to the malady, and one of the
Toxic papers has ungallantly publish
| ed a picture of trio of singing girls
in the act of shedding their ebon tress-
es-and of shedding at the same time
tears large as eggs. No wonder that
| the country is now reused, that the
police authorities have issued stringent
regulations for the benefit of the hair
| dressers of both sexes, and that medl-
| cal men have been told off to conduct
a careful examination Of BARRIERS and
| their premises.
The study of medicine in all Its
| branches is pursued with great ardor
! and success In Japan, which claims,
indeed, the honor of having produced
at least one bacteriologist of interna-
tional fame and it is not surprising,
| therefore, that the doctors are study
ing new disease with the liveliest in
terest Scientists have often told us
that man will become in course OF
time toothless and bald, and may not
| this casting aside by the Japanese OF
| a hirsute protection, Indispensable, nc
| doubt to primitive man, but of no
great use to modern humanity, be tax
en- to indicate that the subjects OF the
: Mikado are really as they themselves
! have long believed, in the very fore
| part of civilization and progress?
However that may be. 1T should be
no difficult matter for such masters OF
medical science as Japan boasts OF 70
get hold of the pestilent little micrope
| that is the cause Of the present trouble
and if once caught, that little micrope
| could only be bitted and bridled and
| broken in--taught in short, to con11ne
it's manifestations of energy to those
places where they are needed; then, IN
| the language Of the Advertisements,
boon would be conferred on that por-
ton of suffering female humanity
which is afflicted with the "superhuous
hairs" and which has been SO. ofter
disappointed in methods, each OF wnlch
promised positive relief at last. =
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