Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
TENDER SUBJECT.


ington, an attractive woman of thirty-five
or SO, recently passed through severe at
tack of typhoid fever, Physically, she is
now we'll advanced on the road to recovery.
Mentally. she is suffering from species of
depression that proceeds from the con-
seriousness That her once magnificent coal
biack hair Is nors than jeopardized owing
TO the siege II fever from which she has
emerged. Her great midnight coils. that
once fell to her knees, were her browning
glory in the full acceptance of that poetic
term. Now she is almost afraid to dress
her hair on account of the great combfuls
that come oug She was speaking with
sort OF humorous usefulness Of the matter
the other day.
1t seems to me- she said, that in the
Wnoie course OF my life l have never heard
SO many adversions to the subject of hair,
or happened upon SO many little incidents
more or less suggestive OF hair, as l have
since developing my confessed supersensi-
tiveness on the subject of hair. due to the
fact that am in imminent danger of losing
my own.
Everybody i meet seems to have some
thing or other to say about hair, even those
who are entirely ignorant of the fact that
Il am losing my own hair so rapidly that
positively take a fresh cold every time use
a. como. Just now when l would rather
talk about or listen to other people talking
about any other subject in the world than
nair, the hair topic is the one Of all topics
that l. appear=utterly unable to get away
from IRON and am perpetualiy running into
Suggestions OF hair of my own volttfon.s
few days ago met an old friend, also
"a nurse. who had just returned from visit
to Mexico with patient.
Those poor little dogs that they have
down in Mexico she said to me, are such
creepy unhappy looking creatures. Chi
huahua dogs, they are called. They are
quite hairless. you know
?" mo- itsswasnt a 'dig'-nurses don't IN
dulge in such things-far be 1t from them.
She was simply making talk and she
didn't even know at that moment that
had been Ill. much less that my hair was
disappearing as IL it figured in a dissolving
view. Ess
Every time go to a drug store it seems
to me that the FIRST thing 1 am bound to see
is an enormous stack Of bottles containing
reddish fluid that is warranted to restore
thinning hair over night, or while you walt
AT vaudeville performance recently
one of the comedians gained great laugh
by telling a funny story about che hair
cloth lintne of, his wife's> spring suit. 1
II have become so morbid on this hair
subject that find myself stopping In front
OF all of The artificial hair; windows-heaven
ward off the day when shall have to wear
wig!-and when people with whom am
acquainted find me standing before such
windows. in more or less rapt contempla-
ton of the shades Of exhibited hair that
seem to match my own, 1 feel guilty ana
hang-dog and Chagrined, even though they
are entirely unfamiliar with the carking
private grief that is consuming me.
In the course of a dcsultOry parlor con-
versatiOn the other evening about lovely
women, one of the speakers expressed the
conviction that the lovcliest woman he had
ever seen was Julia Nelson the English
actress.
She was in THIS country with John Hare,
you know. he explained. and l fed-that
he <aftr ir hi ofo In
"Oh. l am fully aware of the fact that this
hair matter has beeome nothing short of an
obsesson witiR7mesn Would you believe 1t,
when read recently OF a railroad accident
that was due to ;aimisplaced switch l was
ready to cry sUith sweak and imbeeile NOR
tificationi (. z5tnE
Il was invited the other day to take ride
to Great Falls. on. the canal for the sake of
the airing, but Il ref fused the invitation when
I remembered ahowfit would distress me to
have to go throughfthe locks
And 1t really seems to me as If had
never before henrdbor read of so many girls,
factory operatives shaving their hair torn
off by machinery fas have since the loss
of my hair began to wear upon my nerves.
Recently Tmet On the street a fine young
army officer whom nursed when he was in
Washington az few years ago. He had just
returned from the Philippines. He told me
all about his Jloins,so down there-the good
boys have itffabit sof telling their nurses
every blessed thing about thenselves-and
VI INV IicdI IiC hduNcOIuc 10 6ctbHS a
court-martial owing tor having inadvert-
emily overstayed his leave of absence from
Mindanao to Manila
- But the bully old man. he wound up.
meaning his colonel, didn't order court
for me, but let me go after giving me
frightful wigging .!fr 81
Il dare say that brave boy is wondering
yet why / literally ran away from him on
the street. =.
But worse than all, I dream every night
of my life. and for hours at time, of the
Seven Sutherland Sisters in short frocks
and dancing fland-in-hand around may
pole. 80 z
Il wish there were a short and safe route
to Mars concluded the se1f-denying nurse,
somewhat pathetically. IT understand that
the folks living on Mars don't have hair"