The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-08-14

Everything physical being oou.,
is established that the man Osual
engaged IN professional vo,,.
grow gray sooner than viii, tha
who earns his bread by Tho Jug
sweat OF his brow. Thus by ,n ~ssa
ton the man who has more and =.
er brain work than another lazy
worries, more troubles. mora a,S mN
thoughts, less vitality in pronor.iU'
this is the individual and the nro.'-
sion that soonest are marked bv NV
hairs. sV
But who shall decide which
which," asks DR.. |. n. Danfor,h
has made a study of both bal5 ~
gray heads. The doctor and tba -
yer and the minister and the buS,.'
man and the whole category Of ~
are willing to go on record as hoir.@
Victims of the hardest possible oos'
p%atlons. ~
Thus far, however, one NAV
certain: In the professions gAnsr,,,'
there are three groups which NAV |.
taken up as suggestive Of the man,a,|
in which heads grow white. FirS, N
these are the representatives who al
on the outskirts Of even moderat.|
success Of life. They have the bn,
den OF living more than the burden ii
ambitions. They have TO work ba,a
er toward making the end Of tbin,,
meet than they work toward attsi,
ment o. their skill as professional
men. These are Of the class which
get gray early even if there be No
disposition on the part of their an
cestry to become gray early in lite
Just to the extent that they are sus
ceptible to the worries and pincbinu
OF life, to that extent they becOrs
gray and prematurely old.
Another class are the happy men.
They are capable, of bounded ambt
tons, and are content with the sue
esses that come to men who bore
with small eugurs and learn well the
philosophy of living for ease and com.
fort. They have horizons that are
wide enough, they have learned to
avoid cares, and between working
well and not worrying they never
grow gray! you will see them LONG
after the allotted span Of life scarce
ly any gray hairs and with small
trace of badness.
That third type of professiona
men belongs to the top of the profes
sional ladder the world over. Thel
brains are filled with sUrging ideas
there is no rest for the gray matte
within their skulls, before blood M
triton can get to the hair it is Gu
off and subverted to the use Of th
brain until the logical result Of year
of this is either gray hair or 10 hal
at all. There is a disposition to bald
ness instead of gTayness, but in man
ways the two conditions are brough
about by the same causes.
In general the man who think
will be gray before the man VII
works without thinking. To the e.
tent that the thinker fails to TAX
exercise, is sedentary in his work an
habits, and allows his system to laps
in tone, just to that extent he will D.
come prematurely gray.
"As a factor in grayness, howeve
heredity has more to do with 1t ina
anything else. In MY W faml
everybody had been in the habit
getting gray or bald at 40, and as
result | am a good deal OF both.
Logically and naturally gray hal
may be expected to appear on u
temples at So or 40 years old. BROW
Sequard is an authority for the slas
ment that the first Of these gray ni
turn white in a night. His obser'
ton is based upon the white thFea
that appeared in bis own beard. LOO
ing in the mirror one morning, ne q
covered a single white hair maj VI
not there the night before. he y
only pulled it out, but before going
bed again he made a careful scar
for other white hairs. Satisfied u
none was left, he went to sleep aga
only to find that while he slept y
other gray hairs had turned wnlte
the same area where he had marx
the first.
In this way DR.. Brown-Sequard
comes to an extent sponsor 1or
story of the man whose hair tufp
white in a night, caused from 1ris
This is the story which dermal
gists in all time have SHE'D ST.
which at the same time has been
a much stronger footing thar .
thing in the line of ghosts, sea :
penis or merm2ids.-Chicago
bune.