Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-03-19

n lew YORk.--tS Special Correspond
N ence. "A facetious title, perhaps,
for SO sorrowful subject. Per
haps l should have called it Hairs at
Large" or "Gone But Not Forgotten"
Why is it one feels inclined to a
humorous mood about hair that has
lost it's attachment for the scalp that
raised it and made it what it is today ?
For the same reason, l suppose, that
chasing his hat down the street. or try
ing to recover his dignity and his fallen
form after a wordless alteration with
an icy sidewalk!
There's nothing particularly funny in
it for the victim. There s nothing
funny at all for the one who finds a
thinning and straying of former
crown Of glory. Now, is there, SUI
ferer? l ask you, is there?
They Can't BE ConsoIed.
For sheer, abject terror there 10
nothing that strikes at the feminine
heart as this confronting hair VS..
scalp divorce. l know it. ! had a
smell Of it once, and so I know the ter
rors thereof.
And I know from my heavy, heavy
mail bag that one may be fat and laugh
right merrily: one may be thin and be
able to joke about it-but she who is
threatened with hair bereavement be-
longs to the party Of inconsolables.
Which brings us back to the main
issue: rWhy do hairs leave homer
Answer: Home isn't right and it
drives them out.
Factors in Badness.
In current magazine DIR. S. Dana
Hubbard of the New York board of
health gives concise indication of
Why a number Of the 10000 hairs on
your head fold up their tiny follicles
and silently steal away.
Good general health is absolutely
the foundation Of health and longevity
of the hair" says DR.. Hubbard, in sub
stance. THE blood is the stream that
nourshes the scalp. and anything that
interferes with the normal feeding of
the hair by the blood stream may cause
one of the great variety of hair trou-
bles and early thinning. The digestion
and the nervous system must be kept
in good shape to prolong the life and
health of hair
"Constipation. be further explains,
is one of the greatest factors in bald
ness
It shows itself in saIow complexion.
lack Of energy. headaches, nervous and
mental depression, and ultimately in
the loss Of sair.
Hair Falls After Illness.
You must agree perfectly on this if
you just s+yp momen. to consider
that your particular hair loss has been
accompanied by some upsetting of the
digestive apparatus and some phase of
neglected health. Further proof of the
direct connection between health and
good hair is the loss suffered during or
after a protracted illness. Following
the flue almost every afflicted one has
known the further grief Of hair coming
out in handfuls. During every sick
ness Of any duration at all the hair
sickens and falls out
Days when you have not been con
fined to bed, but have felt low in spir-
it' and in energy, your hair was luster-
less, lifeless, and hard TO dress,
wasn't it:
The connection is immediate.
Most Of us believe when hair trou-
bles confront us that local measures of
correction are sufficient to the rccov-
cry Of a fine new crop. We chastise
ourselves for neglecting he brushing.
massaging, and shampooing which we
knew our heads should have been
given. But few Of us go below the
surface of the scalp to look for the real
cause.
Constipation Too Prevalent.
The local measures are really second
in Importance, although important.
Physicians have said repeatedly their
business would be practically nil if it
were not for the wide prevalence of
constipation. Hospitals could not be
maintained. Constipation causes about
Is per cent Of the ills Of mankind It
poisons the system throughout. 1t
poisons the blood, and, naturally
enough. the delicate hairs, imbibing this
poison. readily enough depart their
place of abode.
How to remedy this trouble? The