The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-28
HAYS vERsUs HAIR.

| Between a hatiess race and a hairless
theaded race there would not be much to
choose in the minds of many, and,
Therefore it is most reasonable to state
that the words of DIR. w. A. Guild or
Boston will fall on deaf cars. 1t is this
learned physicians opinion that unless
hats are abandoned by both men and
women the American race will be bald
III its entirety inside of six generations
DR.. Guild appears to have good sub
stantiaI reasons for his conclusions IN
this particular. He blames most of the
trouble on the men. pointing out that
badness is a hereditary disease ana
that they are partly responsible Tor TINS
reason for the badness which is becom-
ling prevalent among women; although
he also insists that the wearing of hats
by women has something to do with IT,
He points out that mems hats press
close about the temples and cut of the
blood supply 20 the upper surface or the
head. This pressure on the ascending
arteries, diminishing the blood flow ma
lterieIly, produces atroPhy IN the
parenchyma Of the hair follicles. AS
result there is an altered secretion from
the sebaceous glands of the scalp, ana
this altered secretion dries about the
bair roots, causing what is commonly
called dandruff Under this covering
of dandruff lies a fertile field for the
growth of those parasites which feed on
the hair cells and destroy them.
This ought to be plain to every one.
But who is going to have the temerlty
TO lead the way to hatlessness- From
last reports DR.. Guild was wearing one
and even Harry Kemp, the hobo poet
OF Kansas university, has donned at nat
because he could no longer stand the
fun which was poked at him from going
about hat1ess. A bald headed race SIX
generations hence will consist OF lot
of comical looking cusses, but hatiess
race from now on to side track such
calamity would furnish quite as ludl-
crous a sight. And, besides, a geenrai
badness of the race SIX generations
hence is really nothing for the people
of today to worry about. FropaDly
there will be so many strange and Won
derful things to occupy the attentlon Oh
the race some two hundred years from
now that its members will have no time
to think of the fact that they are minus
hirsute appendages. nor will they nave
inclinations to curse their ancestors Ior
being negligent in this particular. 1t
will be second nature TO liiclil Oily Ao"'
They will only know of hairy-headed
reople by reading about them in history
and glanc;ng at the uninteresting pic
t,,res of the famed individuals of an
tlquity.
This hatless propaganda might
be brought about among tue men,
but it would be useless to try
and foist it on the women.
Bards and poets of ages gone have sung
that women's hair was their GROWING
glory. But THAT is not the case today.
It's their hatG which cover up and hide
their hair which the women most de-
light in. It w.,uld be far easier to get
them 20 accep. a suggestion that they
commit suicide than to hope to have
them give up their hats. DR.. Guilds
IDEAS are undoubtedly correct in the
premises, but the chances are great that
there will be no inclination among the
men and women of the world to adopt |
Thorn What care they for the distant /
to como after them?