Show WHY WOMEN ARE NOT BALD Select selection lon protects protect them from the he tendency if the unsatisfactory statistics that I 1 have been able to collect can ber be relied on the proportion of baldness in boys and girls under twenty is about eighty to seven says miss E D F andrews in i the popular science enee monthly al the majority of at theace under consideration wear wi ar their hair loose or at in I 1 sim I 1 ale marguerite Marguerit 6 braids so that there is little likelihood of deception while unwholesome headgear or other individual practices can hardly as yet have had time to produce any material effect upon cither sex we may regard the difference indicated by the figures as practically due to the working of heredity alone now there is no apparent reason why girls should not inherit a tendency to baldness as well as boys unless that teri tendency dency is checked by some me other factor such a factor is ii sexual selection for I 1 presume it ig ia hardly necessary to argue here that a bald headed woman would not stand much chance of asur survival in the struggle for matrimonial honors A a 3 men have always practically done the selecting and will probably continue to do so more and mo more re as the conditions of modern modem life render the competition for husbands more severe the womans comans voice in the matter when she has any being limited to a simple neg negative aUve it is not likely that the state of baldness to which the human race is said to be tending will ever affect the feminine half of i it |