Show DUE 1 UE TO RAIN B WORK CAUSE OF GRAY HAIR ON PRO MEN thinkers may properly be divided into three groups heredity also Is a factor science has a ready explanation everything physical being equal it is Js established that the man who is engaged in professional work will grow gray sooner than will the man who earns his bread by the literal sweat of his brow thus by implication the tho man who has more and harder brain work than another more worries more moro troubles more difficult thoughts less vitality in proportion this Is the individual and the sion 1 that soonest are marked by gray hairs but who shall decide which Is which asks dr 1 I N danforth who has made a study of both bald and gray heads the doctor and the lawyer and the minister and the business man and the whole cate category gury of men are willing to go on record as being tho the victims of the hardest possible occupations pat ions athus h far however one may be ain in the professions generally ie io are three groups which may bo be opi up as sugg suggestive estivo of the manner which which heads grow white first of ae se are aro the representatives who are h the outskirts of evon moderate success of life they have the burden of living more than the burden of ambitions they have to work harder toward making the end of things moot than they work toward attainment of their skill as professional meu these are of the class which get got gray early even if there be no disposition on the part of their ancestry to become gray early in life just to the extent that they are susceptible cep tible to the worries and pinch ings of life to that extent they become gray and prematurely old another class are the happy men they thoy aro capable of bounded ambitions and are content with the sue suc amses that come to men who bore with small augurs and learn well the philosophy of living for ease and comfort they have horizons that aro are wido enough they have learned to avoid cares ond and between working well and not worrying they never grow gray ou will see them long afif after ter the allotted span of life scarcely any gray hairs and with small trace of baldness that third type of professional men vien belongs to the top of the professional ladder the world over their brains are tilled filled with surging ideas thero 1 is no rest for the gray matter within their skulls si culls before blood nutrition can get to the hair it is cut out off and subverted to the use of the brain until be logical result of years of this is either gray hair or no hair at all there is a disposition to baldness instead of grayness grayn but in many ways the two conditions are brought about by the same causes od in general the man who thinks will be gray before tho the man who works without thinking to the extent that the thinker falls to take exer exercise elso Is sedentary in his work ork and habits and allows his system to lapse in fit tone just to that extent be he will be cono prematurely gray As A 9 a factor in granes gran esl however heredity has more to do with it than ally anything thing else in ray my own famil family y everybody had been in the habit of getting gray or bald at 40 and as a result I 1 am ain a good deal of both pt logically and naturally gray hairs may way be expected to appear on the temples at 35 or 40 years old brown boquard is an authority for the statement that the first of these gray hain hairl turn while white in a night his ills observation is based baaed upon the white threads that appeared in his own beard looking in the mirror one morning ho he dia dis a single white hair that was mt not there thero tho the night before ho he not oaly pulled it nut but before goina going to bed wan san he made a careful search for other white hairs satisfied that none was left he went to sleep again only to find that while he slept two other gray hairs had turned white in the same area where he had marked the first in this way dr brown sequard be comes to an extent sponsor for the story of tho man whose hair turned white in a night caused cat sed from fright this Is tho the story which derma tolo fists in all time have shied at but which at the same time has been on a much stronger footing than anything in the line of ghosts sea serpents or mermaids chicago tribune |