Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-30
NEW CURE FOR BALD
HEADEDNESS IS FRESH
AIR ON STlFLED SCALP
Broadway Halter Explains How Man
Forgets to Remove Headgear
Until Scalp Is Simply
Smothered

"You see those two young fellows
walking along the street bareheaded!
inquired the halter, standing in his
shop doorway on Broadway.
'They are not doing that for fun
And although they are attracting con-
siderable attention, they do not intend
to do So" =.
"Well. then, what do they do it for?
asked the bystander. '"They remind
me of a nigger minstrel team ready to
do the high fling in ragt1me duet
chorus"
wrong again." replied the halter:
'If you knew my trade as well as
do, you'd understand.
ever see so many baldheaded young
fellows as there are these days? Used
to be the 'baldheaded row applied to
the old sports at the shows. But now
adays you say the 'baldheaded row
and it might just as well apply to the
younger set.
"Men wear their hats all the time,
Can't blame us hatters if we furnish
such swell styles that man hates to
leave 'em off except when he goes
to bed at night.
But that isn't the reason. Man isn't
so alfred proud of his headgear as a
woman Is, and in fact he doesn't think
of it at all.
Don't Think to Take Off Hats
That's the real reason. He never
thinks to take the hat off his head.
First thing after breakfast. If he
has a home, he puts his hat on. And
1t stays there all day, practically. And
if he patches and takes his meals out,
The hat goes to roost on his head be-
fore breakfast. Then it sticks there
during breakfast at the lunch counter
and at the office quite often, the derby
is simply showed back on the head,
while at lunch time 1t still stays in
the only safe place at a lunch room-on
it's owners head. Even when he goes
in an elevator he doesn't take it off
any more, not even If he and the oper-
ator are the only men in a crowd of
six or eight women on the conveyance
1t doesn't seem to be the thing to take
your hat off in a public elevator now,
they say-though what other kind OF
elevator there may be, I'm blowed If
know.
.Even when he meets his young
women friends on the streets, accord
ing to the latest importation from New
York and West Point military acade-
my, he doesn't remove his hat--but
simply touches it in semi military
salute and let 'er go at that.
Hat Worn All Day Long
"Then it comes about that the hat is
on MS nedQ all udy Will cACSpllOil VI
sleeping time. or when he is at the
show, and even there, he has it ON
when promenading in the lobby.
$50 in about a years time or so Mr..
Man begins to notice that there's lots
of room up on top of his head. That
he has more forehead than he used to
have. That the temples are getting
thinned out of hair and that there's
a star of shiny bald head beginning to
dawn right at the apex of the back of
his skull. So he dopes his poor scalp
with hair oil till his head hoits' and
he smells like barber shop Saturday
night with a big IL o'clock crowd on
hand. But all the time he keeps snoth-
ering his poor old hair with a derby,
soft felt, plug or straw hat, and the
hair naturally dies.
"1hen came this new treatment. Buy
good hat with big. handy brim
which you can carry it with and don't
wear your hat except to the Demo-
cratic primaries.
THAT'S what those young fellows
were doing. They were giving their
heads an airing. was ALL Sensible
chaps, l say
And the halter stepped inside to
sell another hair sitter"