Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-12-29
NO HOPE FOR
THE bald PATE
Medical Authority Opposes Claim
Of Beauty Doctors; All IL
lusions Of Hope Gone.

lie reams Of paper that are used
up each month in articles in the daily
papers-and weekly and monthly pa
person beauty culture are conclu-
sive evidence that it is natural for
man to desire to beauty the person
as it is to ito indulge in>the Illusions
Of hope" A sound mind in a sound
body suffices the serious-minded MI
nority, but apparently the innumera-
Bile majority, if they had their way,
would have a comely body and take
their chances on any old kind of a.
mind, on the principle that it is bet
ter to be good-lOOking than wise, be-.
cause more people have sight than
understanding. To decorate and
beautify the body is an Unborn pas
sion; the savage does it differently
from us, but when it comes to the
many ma%nipulations and remedies
that are recommended for avoiding
wrinkles, giving the eyebrows an aris-
tocratic arch, coaxing the lashes to
be long and languorous, making the
ears pink and small O. the nose
straight and thin, removing a double
chin Or taking the core out Of the
Adams apple, we have nothing on our
%uncivilized and supposedly more ig-
norant brothers. The hair in partic-
ular is the object. of all mankind's
cosmetic e%ndeavors.
Mans Efforts to Save.
When it comes to civilized man, he
is universally engaged in trying to
save what he has left or regrow what
he has lost. Women, with few excep-
iaas, do not become bald, but ali
women in their opinions, are threat
ened with that ~u1speakable calamity;
men not only may get bald, but a
large number of them are already so.
Here thus the popular remedies for
the hair need almost a surgeon-gener-
ais catalogue. Migratory and electrl-
cal treatments, hair tonics that feeu
the hair roots, as though they grew
out of the scalp like ,broom-sedge out
of al old field, neat's-foot oil and crude
kerosene, massage and mango cures,
all have their futile trials.
Among these our particular topic
now is smuggling the hair. This is
recommended to overcome splitting at
the ends and to prevent falling of the
hair, the reason for the latter being J
that it "closes the pores and keeps the
fluid in the hair With the long hair |
of a woman which has a tendency to
split at the ends, it is possible that
smuggling the tips may, be of some use;
it substitutes a charred blunt end OF
fused horn for one tapering to a po1nt
or cut clean across. But even in cases
Of this sort it is less useful than
.ereasing lightly the hair and thus sup
plying the fat which lis Hacking in SUCH
hair. lsst
Singing Won't Help You. ]
For the hair of men, which is kept
short, smuggling is not of any use IL
preventing splitting; hair which is not
allowed to grow to its natural length
does not split, unless it has a deep
seated disturbance for which there is
no such simple remedy. Of course,
smuggling the hairNends in order to
prevent the fluid in the hair from
escaping like sap from a tree, is based
on an entire m~isconception of the
hairs structure and nutrition. The
hair does not contain any more sap
than a buggy whin; it is not nourished
by any fluid in it, but by the blood
plasma that reaches only the hair
root. The hair above the skin surface
is a spine of horn, which is even oiled
from without, and si1geing it's tips has
no effect whatever on either it's 1our-
ishment or it's growth. 1t is certain,
says the Journal of the American
Medical Association, that singing the
hair is of no value in preventing it's
fall; in fact, the ohy value the pro-
cedure has is to the jealous hair
dresser who gets his little fee for
doing it-unless it is worth a quarter
to the seeker after hair to think he is
doing something, even if he is not.