The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-21
soME yITAL oUEsrroNs.

There is always something to be learned if we know how to go after 1t. There are always hidden stores of Knowledge If we possess the magic wand to point them out to us. and the intelligence and energy to dig them up. When we want and need information on any subject there Is usu- ally a source from which to obtain 1t if we apply at the right place.
 For example, some time ago North Carolina paper, The Scotland Neck Com monweaith, wanted some of its contem- poraries to tell 1t why so few women stammer. and why so few of them are bald-headed. Most readers, if they have paid proper attention to what Is going on around them, know that the queries refer to what are facts. A woman who stam- mers or shutters Is almost unknown. and if any of them are baid-headed they have an exceedingly successful way of hiding the fact from the public. so the questions were based on facts. The oreenville Re- Hector. another Carolina paper. thus makes answer to the questions:
 While we have known one woman ssam- merer. we will admit that they are in- frequently encountered. This we attribute hearts while men think with their brains. process of ratiocination, while the brain speaking. The fact that women n = are isi sei- dom bald may be accounted for thusly: They take great deal more care with upon 1t than upon any other personal pos session. or accomplishment if you will As about three-fourths of a woman's. life long enough at a time to prevent fresh air from affecting their hair. It is well known that the masculine custom of many smooth and shiny pates.
 These may or may not be convincing reasons. Not being experts in physiology hairology or talkoiogy we decline to af- firm or deny the evidence. but The Nor folk Landmark. always loquacious. dis putatious, contumacious and various oth- CT things. butts in with the smirkng as- servation that 1t was just going 10 say what The Reflector said about stammer- ing, and controverts the bald-hsaded proposition thus:
 Though women stay indoors much more than men: the air indoors Is not so fresh their hats on indoors much more than men do. anyhow. At church, the man must remove his hat and the woman must keep hers on. How is it that bank clerks. who stay indoors so much with their hats off are prone to badness? The cxplana- ton is found in the length of women's hair. Long hair is strong hair. Cut a tree down close to the roots and keep it thus cut, and 1t will dle. Let 1t grow as nature directs, and 1t will flourish might fly. It feeds Its roots better when flowed to grow. Selah!
 And there you are. whether The Re- Hector or The Landmark knows most about the two subjects, or whether neith- CT knows anything we shall not take it on us to say. At the risk of getting into trouble, though, we snail give it as our opinion that both of them have good grounds for their findings on the last proposition. Women, taking the sexes as a whole wear their hats less than men do, and they take better care of their hair and suffer it to grow longer and more iuxuriantiy. Both or all these causes may have something to do with the absence of bald heads among them. As to their not stammering may nor be because they've no time to spare? We make the suggestion timorausly, fer ob- 9ious reasons, but in general when a wo- man determines to talk no little thing like | badly geared tongue is going to scotch her.