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Show "You are getting bald," said he. "Now, what a gigantic mystery it is this subject of the hair. I am bald; you are getting bald. Neither of us would try to save & thousand dollars if that would have kept us a full head of hair, I but neither money nor Bkill nor wisdom I will save any man s single hair of his ' head. For my part, the only knowledge I I have, after being in the barber btisi-' btisi-' ness twenty years, is purely negative, j I think that if you don't have your hair I cnt it will not fall out." "What? Never have it cut?" "Stop a minute. Did you ever see a ! biild headed woman? Von never did. J Well, such a thing as a bald headed, j woman exists, but they are very rare. ; Now, why are women practically never I bald, and why are men growing bald in ! greater numbers every year? Yon na-1 ! turally reply or yon would if you hail thought about it as much as I that the reason lies in the hats women wear. Their hats amount to nothing. The average bonnet does not weigh two ounces. Their hats are open, and there is more or less ventilation under :tg) through them, whereas men's hats aie ! heavy boxes that inclose and weigh ; down and stifle tho hair." I "I never thought of that." "Well, that amounts to nothing," said the barber. "It sounds important, but whatever we say in favor of women's hats is offset by the fact that they wear them twice as many hours at a time aa men wear theirs. Women often put a hilt on in the morning and don't remove it till dinner; they wear their bonnets in church, at the theatre, during their calls, everywhere and all the time. The im-! portant difference between the sexes is, ' after all, that boys and men have their hair cut and girls and women don't. A little girl's hair is nurned after she passes early childhood. "Some fathers who are obliged to keep their families in tho hot city insist that their babies' hair shall be cut, and the mothers yield in the cases of the girls with great reluctance, but after tho little girls are 4 or 5 years old tho women fight to have their hair uncut thenceforward, and such is the rule with most girls. After thinking it all over for twenty years I am of the opinion that haircntting produces baldness. "See, continued the barber, "what wonderful heads of hair the Indians have. How thick it is. How splendid are tho braids they wear down their backs. It is so with all savages all have plenty of hair, and none ever cut it. The white men who live in wild countries or on our border exemplify the samo thing. They wear their hair down on their shoulders, and it is thick nnd luxuriant, but it has not been cut in all the time they have lived the life of the rudo people around them. My calm decision is that if voti want to escaK) baldness yon must keep the scissors away from your head. No medicine will remedy baldness. To" find a physio that will do so is tho surest road to a giant fortune, and men have been experimenting ex-perimenting for more than a century without finding a remtdy." New York Sun. " ABOUT CUTTING HAIR. What S:iy the Uarber Wlto Tulk o trie Cuv or the Hair on Men's Heads. "Yoi.f oetter have your hair trimmed, tir." So said the barber in the shop at Church and (Wtlundt streets. 'Why?" he w,-u asked. "I L.ul it cut only a we k ago." "Yes. but I s"e it is very thin on top," said the bnrhev. "and I ih'i.k that it should be cut very frequently in order to save it." On the next afternoon the barber in the Par!? Avenue hotel was making his lust erenrsion with a razor over the tame man's face J |