New Britain herald., 1915-10-15

inside. But, oh, girls, beware of bald ness on the soul. q ask you, even if you are the daughters of a clergyman, to think seriously of what I have saido
 "'BILL NYE.'" Here Is the Reason, Dear Watson.
 "The fact that a majority of great men are bald is easily explained.
 Their brains convert into dynamic thought all the blood their hearts can
 pump into their heads, before it can
 waste itself irrigating the weeds of false vanity.
 Julius Caesar, noted smooth
 pate, had a just contempt for lazy minded men who allowed their blood so to waste itself, and he used to or
 der the rank heads of such shaved down to the bone, which was always found to be present.
 We cannot neglect our responsi- | bilities. Samson had his hair cut in
 the night by lady barber named
 Delilah but he let it grow again and where is he? If Absolom, that erring son of David had been bald l headed, he might have been here with us tonight, extolling the virtues | of the superman.
 And the Chinese, wisest of all peo- | pie. were shaving their heads thou
 sands of years before you and I had | any. They left on the long .istail, | but that, l believe, was by order of the | head eXecutioner, who has always 1 had a good hold on the Chniese peo- | ple-not excepting the heads of the l government.
 Scientists have fought over con-
 ficting theories, hurling huge ones
 loaded with devastating detail at each 1 others heads, which no doubt in most
 cases have been adequately matted
 against other peoples ideas. man | named Withof took his microscope in
 hand, hunted down an absolutely in | eXcuSable head of hair, and proceed | ed to count FPS hairs on a square inch ] of surface, or 178,560 hairs in all. | Such a life handicap seems incredible. '"The average hair which so Vul- | garly protrudes from the top knot of
 so many common people, grows at the
 rate of one-siXteenth of an inch every 1 twenty-four hours, or in thirty days 1 over one inch in length on the aver age head I am quoting roughly | from the Encyclopaedia Brittanica l and the almanacS. When we Jn-
 slider that every head of hair contains I
 making a continuous single hair in the | course of a month of nearly 9 mile | why then it is easy for us to under | stand why the bald headed man is the | intellectual superior to his hirSi'te ] brother, who has to live with 8 drain 1 like that fastened upon him. Another gentleman of scientific | leisure and independent income con- 1 sidered the diameter of the point of | an extra slim hair of still another un- 1 occupied gentleman, and found it to measure 1-3000th of an inch. Con- siderable hair-splitting for so small a point There is related also the case of a man who, after enjoying perfect badness for two years, suddenly grew another complete crop of hair. Per- haps that is the most pathetic inci- dent on record.
 "The women peasants of Brittany | raise such hopeless crops of hair that l they have to sell them every two or | three years. They sometimes receive | as much as $10 a head. These are un- 1 fortunate cases; but there are others. 1 The people of the Shetland Islands are reported to lose their hair through
 the eating of much fish. It may be | pointed out that fish is brain food.
 Then there is said to be a race of hairless men In Australia. NO QOuDt 1 the day is coming when that race will l take it's place at the top of civiliza- 1 ton.
 Tt is estimated that the average l man, by the time he has reached fifty years will have cut off from his head 1 thirteen feet of hair, and in twenty | five years will have shaved eight feet l of beard. The total loss of per3pira-
 tion itself seems negligible by com parison.
 ''The Nubians shave their head 1x- | cept for that important tuft on tie
 crown by which they believe a angel 1 of death will bear all true believers | to Paradise. In that respect the NJ
 bians and the Chinese seem to think l alike.
 But the ancient Greeks had the l right idea. When warrior won a victory, or a sailor passed successfully | through great perils at sea, he cut off | his hair and hung it on a tree con-
 secrated to the gods, or deposited it
 in a temple, or buried it in the tomb
 of a friend. The point is, he grabbed