Show FOE TJIE BALUHEAUSD Wo have noticed that as ono advances in years he experiences P remarkable respect and admiration for uald heads Other perSons per-sons not in the journalistic profession may have observed the same thing I is singular singu-lar too as one crows older how he loses esteem for hair restoratives and with what avidity he reads that all such preparations are composed in large part of lead zinc and other poisonous material calculated to os sooner or later benumb the brain as well as scarify the scalp I Nor is tho story of the newlydiscovered virtues of cottonseed cotton-seed oil as a producer of natures growth on tho head likely to excite interest unless to that youngish party who has found a i thin spot and tried everything Avaunt with all artificiality in the matter mat-ter of heads No brushing some dozen or sixteen straggling hairs from one side up to the summit and plastering the ends to keep down insurrection No frozy wig with its dead ana lacklustre efforts to creep to the top of tho pole betraying its alias round the lower edges No tidy silk skullcap with its pretense of protection against the colds Rather the outandout honest venerable shining bare pate extending ex-tending down to the line of vegetation just about where the hat strikes This is the kind of head the hair of which a man parts with a towel looking except in color like tho surface of an eggplant or 0 now lip numvitai tenpin bal This Is the kind we see in the front seats at the ballet attracted at-tracted thither by a curious affinity between be-tween the aged of both sexos We see by an eastern exchange that a tonsorial artist in Philadelphia is making a specialty of the treatment of gentlemen who havo outgrown the hair that used to thatch their upper stories In an inner room of the professors parlors there hangs a legend BaldHead Burnishing 25 cents extra The newspapers describe the process but we havent room for it Briefly it consists of an alcohol bath followed fol-lowed by gentle rubbing with a chamois skin with an application of glycerine added ad-ded and over that a thin transparent varnish The customer comes out to dry with a scalp sleek and shining as good for tho purposes of a lookingglass as the tin psn in the advertisements where the cook dresses her dark flowing hair for some I festival day We should think that this sort of a bald bead would make a good I toboggan slide for our valley flies |