Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-13
REMEDY FOR Badness.
Take Off the Hat and Give Scalp Sun
and Air
From the New York Herald

From the New York Herald
The sunlight and air treatment for tie
hair. now so much in vogue with the bare
headed summer boarder. has evidently
come. in measure. to stay. at least during
the warm season. The practice is not only
destined to save the wear tear and wind
flights of hats. but to benefit the scalp in
the rational way of leaving it uncramped
for the performance Of its legitimate hir-
suite function. The bald pate is now uni
versally voted to be neither useful. orna-
mental nor productive. Hence any plan
that can create two spears of hair where
only one grew before IL to Ice commended.
applauded and practiced. From such aIi-
thorities as have investigated the subject
there appears to be a very good ground for
hope OF much good from the fad. The
polished crown belongs to advancing civili-
cation. and the tight-titting hat is one of
the signs of its progress.
The cold that strikes the hat-nursed head
generally touches the weakest part of our
anatomy. Neuralgia. rheumatic heada he.
tic-douloureuX and other cephal.c pains
have kept tim.d man so long the slave of
the hat that nature resentS his attitude by
denying him the natural covering he might
otherwise retain. Even the weaker has
much the better of him in this respect.
Woman still holds her glory I'm her hair.
and the eXpensiveness of her bonnets. the
main point of their attractveneSs. is in
inverse proportion to their protective capa-
bilities. The hatpin anchors the picture
bonnet instead of a constructing band
about the temples. and the trussed puffs
wave free and gracefully to the breeze.
In the ethics of gallantry and in the actu-
ality of fact there Is no such thing as Il
baldheaded female-at least she has not yet
been found. Even the derby of the horse
woman has the inevitable skewer to steady
it on its jaunty perch. stu more impor-
tant lesson of the bare heads Is given In the
appearance of our female immigrants.
whose millinery bills cut no figure in house
hold expenses and whose treSses supply the
hair markets of the world. The women Of
Hungary in particular the shockiest Of
the lot, and seldom If ever wear any head
gear.
With the absence of construction and con-
finemcnt Of the pate, how much also may
be expected from the play OF the sun upon
thin and wasting locks, The scientists tell
us that many of the mysteries OF both Of
the spectral and ultra violet rays are yet
to be revealed. Certainly some of the eff
fects of their health-giving properties in
other directions are gratifying as they
remarkable. And. after all, who dares
contend that the head was made to be ar
tificially covered when naturally protected
as 1t Is by luxuriant locks! 1t il comfort
ing sometimes to parallel fad with
scientific fact We have certainly some
grounds for believing that the new idea
has foundation in reason. and that if we
constantly pocket the head into a stiff
stovepipe tile rim 1t into II Handicapped
derby we are very liable to develop the
inveterate hat habit. with all its dire penal
ties. If. then, the coming generation
benefit by the experiences of the past one.
let ii by all means do At all events, it
seems worth while to try an innocent
harmless and common-sense experiment in
the direction indicated, and IL nothing more
comes of IL than crowd OF hatleSS horse
men and bareheaded pedestrians. we need
not call them either fools or cranks.