Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — THE UNFORTUNATE BALDHEAD [ARTICLE]

THE UNFORTUNATE BALDHEAD

His Uraulum la Dooiuod by Nature to Remain Like a BlUlard Ball. “I make a good deal of money out of baldheaded men, ” said a barber the other day. “It is true that Ido not know of any way to make hair grow on a bald head; but although 1 honestly say to every customer who asks my opinion exactly w at I believe. It has been my unvarying experience that uo baidheaded man gives up without a long and expensive series of experiments the hope of one day seeing his hair restored. No matter how many other baldheads he may know, or what variety of unsuccessful attempts he may have seen to make the hair grow where it has once disappeared, each baldheaded man seems determined to make all the trials for himself. “I have seen a barber whose head was as destitute of hair as a marble tip table unblushingly recommend a hair tonic or hair restorer or invigorator as certain to make the hair grow. The baldheaded man does not ask the question why the barber has not tried it on his own billiard ball, but confidingly purchases bottle after bottle in the vain hope of making up for nature’s deficiencies. “There is a little fuzz that grows on many bald heads that cau-es a good deal of delusion. Seeing and feeling this fuzz the baldheaded man thinks his new crop is coming surely. He reasons that if this fuzz is shaved it will cofne out stronger, so he has his head carefully shaved. Then the fuzz comes out again. Bat it is still a fuzz and it continues to be a fuzz and never gets to bo anything but a fuzz. “Men are generally more disposed than women to experiment on bald h< ads. One reason of this is that men cannot wear false hair so securely as women do, but rather with greater risk of detection. ”