The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-26

been asked which had the majority,
the fat men or the corpuent women.
] have not rendered a verdict as yet
I'm considering the matter Some
times | think one way, ana then /
think the other way; it's dlf1lcult
matter to decide But as Gabriel Aus
tin said, when asked which was the
better. green persimmons or crab-ap-
pies, its six of one and half doZ-
en- of the other"
But as an encouragement TO both
sides. | hold that manhood and Wo-
manhood, as the farmer said of his
bacon, is all the better. for having a
streak of lean and a streak of fat.
Bald heads are getting TO be very
fashionable noW-a-dayS. | have kin
folks, so has my wife that are she'd
ding their hair; and go where | may
! find heads that look like peeled on
ions | mean the heads of men, of
course, Tor the ladies never lose their
hair; al least, | do not see any bald
heads among them. All the ladies
seem TO have fine heads of hair, and,
until | heard remark, which a lady
made, once, to a young man who
was praising a certain young lady's
fine hair / had no right to doubt
they had
Fine hair, indeed" said the lady in
an irOnical way, "Ill bet n dollar, ="
she continued, that girl didn't have
more than ten STRAINS of her own hair,
tied up in a little knot with Il shoe
string; but, all that big role, you saw,
was nothing in the world but a horses
tail"
AS this was a married lady, and, as
| suppose, knew what she was talking
about the idea at once occurred to me
H., -,
Guild be known, there may be as
many bald headed women as men.
But as can be seen in a church or
N any other assembly, the men are
unn 'ng the bald head business. Some
of them are | think, OVERRIDING the
matter. a little ban spot on the top
Of the head just large enough for flies
10 skate on looks all right; and. !
suppose it serves the purpose Of cool
ne off The brain: but, this wav some
people have of combing off all their
hair, while it may do away with the
necessity of using fine-tooth combs. it
certainly puts them al the mercy not
only Of flies but of gnats mosquitoes
and other insects rs well, to say moth
ing Of the discomforts of heat and
cold. ! don't like the baldhead fash
ion, therefore, ] have not adopted it,.
| have not so much as a vacant spot
On the top of my head. Furthermore.
hOugh | have lived three fourths of a
entrrv ! still retain nv dark hair as
n evidence of the fact that I'm an old
'ooV. 81 far as my hair is concerned.
] couldn't manage my moustache and
Whiskers. They turned grey before |
knew it, sam Jones head is grew
and his mouStache is dark. which
phenomenon he accounts for SO I've
seen it stated. on the ground that
is hair is Older Than his mOustache,
My beard must be older than my hair.
one thing which ! wish TO state is.
| have never parted my hair in
he middle. | think it's very becom-
ng to q woman; but | don't think It
Is very becoming to man. ON the
ontrarv ! am inclined to think it de-
tracts from the looks of a man, and
.uggests the idea OF effeminacy. The
lord Of creation appears to best adj
vantage when he is least like a
woman and SO, too. ii may be said,
woman ao@eCrs to best advantage
when least like q man in character,
0onduct or dress "A woman looks
better with hair parted in the mid
lie, but man does not. The idea of
I great big man trying to make his
head look like woman's! It's an