The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
M E N, w O M E N
 AND T HIN G s

"Will the coming man be baldT was the question discussed some years back in one of the high-brow journals by q noted physician. He seemed to think that there was tendency of women of his generation to take more kindly to bald pates than ever before.
 
 I suppose it was on account of the humorous American colloquialism to the bald-headed row at "revues' and vaudeville, the phrase applied to the front seats of the orchestra or par quet in theatres, so named by the fun makers of the press. who assume that such seats are pre-empted by old or middle-aged responsibility, anxious to get as close as possible to the favorites of the footlights. The suggestion also carries the in- timation that the showily but scanti- Iy clad demoiselles in turn reserve their choicest smiles for these an cient admirers who stand ready to foolishly gratify every wish of ye chorus lady; but had the learned phy- sician limited himself to the coy maidens of the stage l would not have paid much attention to his con tention that the bald headed men were coming into their own,
 He says: "The principle of natural selection, though up to this time an insignificant influence in causing badness. Is beginning to add it's great force to the accomplishment of what is evidently an object of nature Women who in general, even within the knowledge of the present Sener- ation, did not take kindly to bald headed men, are gradually overcom- ing their prejudices, and see in the bare head an element of manly beauty"
 I got to thinking about this at the last meeting of the Rotary club, for at the speakers table with President oscar Wells in the chair, sat John Sparrow, Ira Armstrong, Murray Brown, J. D. Moore, and the Perry brothers, Charley and Tunstall, about as fine an assortment of bald pates as could enter in manly beauty show, according to the contention of Dr. Hammond. I felt like an ugly duck ling" sitting in their midst with full suit of hair.
 Some "Rote" after lookin gover the bunch rushed down to drug store and came back with bottle of hair restorer in ignorance of the fact that bald -headedness is now a feather in ones cap when 1t comes to pulchri- tude and after each one had told how he earned his first dollar, Bert Ja cobs got up to present the "herpi- eide" but before bestowing it asked for a vote on the one needing it the most and the club refusing to ballot, he just took the liberty of awarding it to John Sparrow.
 If the learned scientist is right and women are falling" for the men with falling" hair on account of their manly beauty, and should this tendency become widespread, the days of hair on the head of men arc numbered, and a few hundred years will see the end of it. If we may | judge from present appearances. says the prophesying doctor, and | from our knowledge of his advance ir other directions, the Americans will distance all other competitors in this race.'
 But for fear the bald-heads of the Rotary club may get too 'cocky" over having shining pates it may be well to recall that back in Old Tes- lament times badness was dis | grace as we learn from the story of | the bears destroying the children l who mocked Elisha, saying: "Go up thou old bald head; go up, thou bald head" It makes no difference whether you believe or credit the story, it still remains most inter esting bit concerning the shame which badness brought even on a prophet in the early records of man. kind.