Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1914 — Joke Founded Merely on Tradition. [ARTICLE]

Joke Founded Merely on Tradition.

Baldness, if It is a sign of anything at all. Is a sign of respectability. The conventional Jest about the gayety of the baldheaded man has absolutely no foundation in fact. Occupants of front rows at the theaters and musical cornedies are not at all remarkable for their baldness, whatever else their claim to distinction. One of the prominent papers in London made an extensive Investigation to prove the truth of this statement. The result was that the proportion of baldheaded men at the churches and universities and lecture halls in London was so enormously in advance of the baldheaded men at the theaters that there was no possible conclusion other than that baldness is really an indisputable concomitant of respectability and that the jokes bald heads and the front rows of theaters are merely traditional.