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Show BALDNESS AND ITS CAUSES. 6ome culm That Too Froqatmt Cutting I Detrimental to the Hair. There are many different opinions as to tue cause of baldness. Soine of the eminent medical authorities state that it is caused by a form of dandruff. This, it is claimed, has been verified bv taking the hair which ban fallen off "in such cases, rubbing it up with vaseline and after applying the ointment so made to the fur of rabbita baldness has rapidly made its appearance on the parts so treated. When vaseline alone was used this result did not follow. The same authority says that the disease is spread by hair dressers, who employ combs and brumes on their customers, one after another, without regard to the cleanliness cleanli-ness of those articles. Voien are less liable to be affected by this form of baldness, bald-ness, for the reason that their hair is usually dressed at home. On the other hand some claim that too frequent cutting of the hair is detrimental. detrimen-tal. The hair in some respects resemble a tree. Suppose the gardener were to clip all the limbs from a tree, regardless of the season of the year, as scon as they were two or three feet in length. How long could the tree be expected to survive? There is a fluid substance in each hair from which the hair geta i U nourishment the same as the tree gets its life, and growth from the sap which is conducted from its roots. Break the bark of a tree and you will soon see the sap running down the trnnk. The Sifme tiring is believed be-lieved to take place when a hair is cut, only it is not visible to the naked eye. A number of the better class of barbers is endeavoring to overcome this evil by singeing the ends of the hair after cutting. cut-ting. This hermetically seals the ends and prevents the escapa of any fluid. This operation is performed with the aid of a small wax taper. The hair is raised from the head with a comb and the lighted taper passed rapidly across the ends. The operation is neither tedions nor unpleasant. Those that practice this style of treating the hair stato that much good has resulted from the process. Washington Star. |