Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1880 — Bald-Headed Lovers. [ARTICLE]

Bald-Headed Lovers.

No one who looks down from a gallery in a church upon a devout and God-like congregation, can fail to notice how very prone the Christian is to the Toss of his hair. Piety and bald-headedness seem to go together, that the head of the believer might be a shin big light, a city on the hill. And yet if one goes to a godless theater the same thing is observable. Worldliness is as bad. as piety. The bloated capitalist and the hornyhanded son of toil are equally liable to* 1 bare-footed ness on the top of Mie riiRRT. And this, too, in the fkde ortho fact that proud science has long wrestled with the problem, and inventions innumerable announce themselves ns causing a lnxnriant growth of hair. Baldneaderkiess, however, does not impair a man’s value In the ordinary affaire of life. He can buy or sell, insure, run a bank, or accept an office, with not hair on his head for a first class eye-brow; but when it comes to making hive t 6 h* girl it is very much In the way, There is a great deal of capUargiattraMlon to love. Girls adore a handsome snit of glossy hair. It is lovely. And when a lover comes to woo her with the top of his head shining like a greased pumpkin, be is at a disadvantage. Jnst as the words that glow and the thoughts that burn begin to awaken in her boeom a sympathetic thrill, she may happen to notice two or three flies promenading over his phrenological organa—and all is over. Girts ate so frivolous. She immediately. becomes more interested in those flies than all his lovely language. While he is pouring out his love and pwrioib she is wondering how the flies ravage to hold on to such a slippery —lt is difficult to say what constitutes the begaty Of a woman. The Sandwich estimate women by their weight. The Chinese require them to have deformed feet and black teeth. A Jslahds*. African princes require their brides to have their teeth filed like tlrase of a saw. And thus goes the world, the criterion of beauty differing according to latitude and longitude.