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Show AN ARTIST TALKS HAIR While he Cuts the Covering of a Times Eepreseutative's Reservoir of Thought. WHY SOME HEADS ARE BALD. Huirs are Curious Feathers and are Affected by a Moist or Dry Climate. "Snip, snip," spoke the sharp scissors scis-sors of a Salt Luke barber in a shop lust night. Tho blades cut off the hair, and tho white-coated knight of the scissors soon made a big improvement on the head of, his customer. "Next!" was the cry, and up bobbed a J imi:s reporter, awl soon he, too, was being shorn of his locks. The barber was in a talkative mood, and as he worked he gave the newspaper man a lecture on hair. "A hair consists of a bulb, or root, and a stem, or shaft. The latter is the portion fully formed and projects beyond be-yond the surface. The hair is rooted in a follicle in the cuticle or true skin or even in the connective or cellular cellu-lar tissue beneath it. The follicle is I bulbous at its deepest part and its sides are linod with a layer of cells continuous continu-ous with the epidermis. The color of hair seems to depend on the presence of a peculiar oil which is of a sepia tint in dark hair, blood red in red hair anil yellowish in fair hair. This oil may be extracted by alcohol or ether and the hair then assumes a grayish yellow tint. "The grayncss of hair in advanced life results from a deficient secretion of pigment or oil. Probably you have seen some men and women with hair that has grown gray or white iu a - single night. This is ilue from the influence of of fear, distress, or any variety of strong mental excitement. Hairs may bo transplanted and will contract organic or-ganic adhesion in the new tissues. In vigorous health the hair is thick and firmly set. In debilitated persons it falls out spontaneously or with very slight force; in the latter case the bulb generally alono comes away, tho sheath and germ remaining behind and capable of reproducing tho hairs under proper treatment or favorable circumstances circum-stances as new shafts are constantly in process of formation. "Bald-headed men are numerous throughout this western country. The air is dry and the hair split? and cracks and will not hold oil. The custom cus-tom of singeing the hair by means of a burning taper is to close the oil cells and give more strength to the root aud thus enable the hair to remain in place. A singular statement made by scientists is that hair grows after death. Some people say that the sulphur qualities of the waters of the hot and warm springs are excellent for the scalp and hair." |
