The Washington herald., 1907-02-10
WILL WEAR NO HAT
Baltimore Doctor Starts CRU
SADIE Against Headgear.
CURE FOR MANY HUMAE ILLS
DIR. Shearer Appears on street, fra
Theaters, and Other Public Places
storm without HeadcOverlng-Haa
Number of Followers.

( DR.. Thomas /. Shearer, one Of the most
prominent physicians in Baltimore. has
decided TO 80 hatless the rest OF his life,
and he will try 70 persuade the rest Of
mankind 10 do likewise. He has an
noUnced 10 a reporter Of the Baltimore
! American that he was preparing and
would give out in a short time "a treatise
showing how, from a scientific stand
/ point MS fellOW-beings viii be healthy
and happy II they will do as ne advises.
Judging from the outlook. DIR. Shearer's
/ hatless brigade bids fair 10 assume very
/ respectable proportions.
/ The principal benefits 10 result from
going without any hat viii be that the
/ next generation viii see very few bald
/ headed men, and one OF the great instI-
tutiOns At the theater-the baldheaded
Tow-wilI be a thing Of the past Then,
/ again, DR.. Shearer thinks that. with the
] free play OF the air over the head. per-
sons viii be less liable to any scalp dis
/ ease and very probably viii have 10
! disease Of the scalp at all. The great
/ cry for fresh air is at the bottom Of Dr.
/ Shearer's crusade against The hat He
! is Of the opinion that not only IS it
/ necessary 10 breathe fresh air, but II is
I just as necessary 10 let II play all about
I the head, thus insuring q healthy scalp
and heavy. lively, and vigorous hirsuit-
/ For sometime past DR.. Shearer's init
mate friends have been aware of his Cp-
position to the practice OF wearing hats.
and he has been appearing hatless on
I the streets, at the theater. OH all his out
/ ings, and. in fact. everywhere. They
/ have said little about #, except IN the
particular social circles in which the pby-
stefan moves. and they have watched him
very carefully. expecting every day TO
hear that lie had been taken ID with
pneumonia or some other aiImeut usually
brought about by undue exposure.
Friends Had Fears.
In fact. some Of his friends have feared
that "A gauopiug consumption would set
in and take the doctor to his ancestors
! long before his time; but instead of los
ing his health, Doctor SheaTer has been
growing more robust and rUddicr every
day. until by this time many Of his lHtI-
mates have bec0mac Onvinced that they.
E
discard their tiles. derbies. fedo7as. and
caps; but they have not yet been able
70 get up the necessary amount Of nerve
/ 20 60 so.
Yes" said Doctor Shearer. when asked
about the matter. Il have not worn my
/ hat for months. and I am now in better
health than / have ever been. / hope
soon to be able TO convince many others
that they would be better OF If they
would do as / am doing This IS 10 fad
with me- but is the result of long con-
sideratiou and careful thought The sub
jet Is too big a one 90 even think OF
going into fl in a superficial manner. but
/ will soon have prepared "a statement cit
ing eminent medical authorities for the
course 1 am pursuing. In my statement,
which I shall prepare for The American
within the next few days, ! shall show
all the benefits 10 be derived from the
practice of goin. without any headgear,
and 1 hope 10 be able 10 persuade many
others 10 join the movement
SO accustomed has the doctor become
20 going bareheaded that he never misses
lis hat and never for one moment does
he feel any discomfort. On Monday night
last while the suowSt0Tm was at its
a gale. he was out IN the open for sew
erGi hours and no time was he cold and
discOmmOded in the least. one would eX-
pect that after such exposure DR.. Shear
er's hair would show signs of the hard
usage II has evidently undergone. but one
glance at him dispels any such idea. His
brown hair is as glossy and soft as IL
I protected carefully every day from the
/ slightest zephyr. and there is 10 evidence
OF more than ordinary brushing to keep il
laying as smoothly as il does when he is
moving around in the drawing-roous Of
( the members OF Baltimore's 200" where
he is TO be found nearly every night dur
/ ing the social season.
Students Go HatIexs.
Nor IS the eminent Baltimore practi-
toner the only member of the ''hauess
/ brigade" Nearly all the members of the
student corps OF the Johns Hopkins AIedi-
cal College go at times without anything
on their heads except their hair, and this
is not an economic measure either. They
have become so accustomed 10 their cha
peauless state that they never know IL.
Not long since one student. who lives in
Pennsylvania, not far from Philadelphia.
started homeward. and he did not dis
cover that his head was unprotected from
the binding rainstoTm. which was then
raging. until he arrived in Philadelphia
and the Pullman porter halted him on
the platform at the Broad Street Sta
ton and told him that he had left his
hat in the car. The deputy sawbones"
was compelled to visit Quaker City hat
ter before going home. I'm order to keep
from scandalizing his loving and trusting
family
DR.. Shearer takes the idea seriously. II
success crowns the movement he has
started. there will be q radical change in
all the correct dress charts" The eco
nOmic side of the proposition IS not
troubling the physician a little bit, be-
cause he knows that It is something that
will adjust itself He wants other pe0-