The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-06
TIE NONPAREJL MAN

Tho Music Cure In Its Application to the
Bald Headed .Man-Mrs.s Amelia Weed
& Holbrook's Extension of the Harmonic
Specific to the Relief OF the GIItterIng
Z Dome OF Thousht--lts Limitations.
Ailusion has been made in this column
to the music cure" which large class
OF intellectual and impressionable people
have taken up so enthusiastically, in our
eastern provinces This week we note an
extension or the cure in which we feel a
vital personal interest Mrs Amelia Weed
aolbrook, lecturing in New York on "The
Power and Possibilities Of Music" and
winning large and enthusiastic audiences,
states that music will make the hair grow.
Mrs eHolbrook says that it is as Inn
possible to prescribe the kind Of music that
Will make the. hair grow as to prescribe
for any other physical condition.
Generally speaking. piano music is good
for the hair !" she says, 9'.'and the music Of
wind instruments is bad, but the kind of
compositions to be used cannot be set
down for definite guidance. No one
should undertake. the cure rashly how
ever for the very tune that will promote
growth on one bald head will cause the
hair to fall out on another
For the first time we are beginning to
get a glimpse Of the occult attraction
exercised by the orchestra seats at the
theater over that brainy class Of people
who are somewhat short in the matter of
capillary attraction. The attempt to crowd
up as near to the music as possible has,
1t seems, psyche physiological basis I'M
klttlngly the bald-heads have been taking
cure. Just as a wounded dog craWls
away and lies dormant, waiting for ma
ture TO erect cure, so the hairless man
works his way up close to the music and
waits, on, SO patiently for the divine har-
bring back the foliage Of youth to the
bra1ny brow Of middle age. les
Mrs. Holbrook very properly notes that
there are certain kinds of music that are
not good for the hair We can see at
once that there is the seed of a great
truth concealed in this simple statement.
lake BABY music at 2 "a. M. This variety
OF harmony is very bad for any father
who has a tendency to badness. 1t ac-
centuates the condition and If persisted
In will rive the capillary adornment from
the fairest brow. For this reason mother
should be entrusted with the happy duty
of convincing the child that his attempt
to administer the cure to father is i'll
timed. ts
We do not know anything that is worse
for the hair than this night work on the
part Of the large, open-faced dog who is
able to sleep by day while father is en-
gagged IN the busy marts of. trade, where
II ne sleeps, they get not only his scalp
but his sustenance. JIM x.
Mrs. Holbrook notes that piano music
is good fol, the scalp. 1t Is difficult not
to cherish doubts at this point, but let
us be openminded. :Yets.8We must bring
to notice the case of the large apartment
house on Franklin avenue where there
are eighteen pianos and inswhich at least
1 O. ,fNnSN 111I L,
count. How would you account for this?
| The Woodston (Kan.) Echo, in a CAV
unfettered way, thus comments on an
incident. of the heart that occurred in
| his vicinity:
"A hayward youth over in Osborne
neglected to call ons his little bunch OF
loneliness Sunday, and about the middle
of the week his intended. mother in law
called on him. bringing her daughter witt
| her After lecturing the youth for while
the old lady went away,sto town. leavins
the young lady with her clover, who prom
Used to take her home that evening ant
to be more punctual in the future. ALP:
well that ends WE'LL"
| What would we do without mother?
- -t~.sE 49, -.
Sir Isaac Newton, drunk read Judg,
| Gearey from a slip.
The scene was laid in the Fargo polio,
court last week. A.wellsdressed old gen
tleman with 5howhlg beard iof snog
white and whose locks had been silveret
by the frosts of perhaps seventy winters
| arose in the dock inSanswer to his name
If this were Sir Isaac it was plain tina
his celebrated law had 3been pulling hin
| earthwaTd.* 43r "a
Are you Sir Isaac Newton, who dis
covered the law Of gravitation?" aske,
| the court.
IT don't know about that" said the oil,
man, but did discover some stuff owe
on the Moorhead side and a very small
portion of it downed me-
Where did you come from?'' asked TIL
court. ~ - -"
Minneapolis. @ PA S
And what are you doing in Fargo?''
Twenty years ago lived in this city
! prospered here, and when I packed u
my household effects and moved with m,
family to Minneapolis I had eight or te
thousand dollars. Bad luck signaled M
ADVENT into that city, My little daughte
died as result Of an accident en- rouut
to my new home in Minneapolis Typhoi
tever robbed me of my son few month
later. Another sonawas killed before tn
end OF the year. and early in the mex
year my wife sickened and died. I EN-
parked In business, but one reverse fol
loWed" another until a few weeks ago
awakened one morning to find myself pen
n1less, or almost So
My former life in Fargo had bee
: pleasant. One success after another fol
, lowed in close succession and I decide
TO RETURN and, advanced in years as
am, commence over again. When I al
rived here Saturday morning I found con
d1tlons changed. The home where ha
spent SO many happy days with my famil
had been DESTROYED by fire. did not Sc
, the faces ]. w.twenty years ago, and
learned that many of my old friends ha
passed to the windowless palaces of res
r and were sleeping in the city Of the deat
In fit Of remorse took drink, an
here am for the first time in my lif
in a police, court and charged with drunk
enness."
Never drunk before?" asked the cour
5 Never
) You are discharged, - and the old mar
bent with the burden of years and {
memories, left the courtroom.
The old world Is said to be gettin
alarmed over the American passion fc
antiques. The prices paid are drawing a
the old stuff across the ocean. Antiqu
8 factories in Connecticut are also feelin
the competition quite severely.
Talk about your $50 100000 meat trust
! The early farmer has slipped the price (
{ potatoes up to $3.50 per bushel. We in
t tend to worry along on peas for a fe,
a weeks. ~ & Ss{2 - az tsN f5ss