Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — Die Lewis on Baldness. [ARTICLE]

Die Lewis on Baldness.

The back of the neck should be protected in winter against cold and in summer against great heat. Nothing can accomplish this uniformly and perfectly but the hair. The custom of shingling off the hair from the back of the neck is unphysiological, and, it should in both sexes be allowed to fall low enough to cover the nape, or meet the usual drees. 1. Women -wear long hair, use pomades and frizzing irons, pull their hair hard in dressing it, suffer much from heat in the scalp tnd headache, and are never bald. The causes named sometimes take off a patch here and there, but we never see a woman with a shiny top. 2. Men never lose their ha r below where the hat touches the head; not if they have been bald fifty years. May we not expect, if we keep the top of the head hot and moist, that the hair-glands will become weak, and finally too weak to grow hair ? My own family is predisposed to baldness. A younger brother is quite bald. My hair at 60 is perfect. For thirty years I have worn the ordinary silk hat, with nearly three hundred holes through the top, the holes being about a sixteenth of an inch in diameter. The nap is reversed before the holes are punched, and when it is brushed back to Its proper place the holes are never seen, except when the hat is held up between the eye and a strong light Between the sweatleather and the hat an open corrugated wire is fastened, and extends all around. The ventilation is perfect.— Dio Lewis Nuggets.