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Show Bear's Grease and Baldness. In a recent volume of reminiscences the writer states that baldness is much more common now that in his early days, and ascribes the modern man's loss of hair to the decrease in" the use of "bear's grease." This pomade was made principally of lard colored and scented, but "hairdressers, "hairdress-ers, many of whom called themselves ' 'professors,' used to advertise 'tha slaughter of another fine bear,' exhibiting ex-hibiting a canvas screen depicting in glaring colors a brown animal of elephantine ele-phantine proportions expiring in a sea of gore." |