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Show EFFECT OF GROWING LONG HAIR. Curled Locks Reduce the Strength of Young Children. A child of 6 died tho other day of no known disease. It pined away. Tho doctors aro puzzled. They did not take notice of the fact that tho mother had persistently refused to allow al-low tho youngster's hair to be cut. Not many doors nway a playmato with similarly long hair began to fado, and tho sensible mother, listening to tho advice of her aged fathcr-ln-law, had her darling's head clipped with a machine. ma-chine. The result was astonishing. Within a fow days thero was a rally, and now that child Is Ugorous, says tho Now York Press. Wo have men of all isms and lsts, but tho effect of hair Is not understood. Whllo ono child mny thrive with a shock of It, nnother will die. In tho case of Henry, aged G, nil his strength seemed to go to his hair; tho Instant tho barber removed It tho boy got strorg as a young bull moose. Samson's caso was that of a man whose hair seemed to absorb strength from tho air that is, ho breathed strength through it, and when It was clipped ho weakened. But that Is a fairy talc. |