Disraeli began to brood at an early age over the flitting of hie hair. When only 26 he wrote to his father from Cadiz:—“l am sorry to say my hair is coming off. just at the moment it had attained the highest penection and was uuivsrsalv mistaken for awig. so that I am" obliged to let the women pull it to satisxy their curiosity. Let me know what my mother thinks. There are no wigs here I could wear. Pomade and all tnat quite a delusion. Somebody recommends me cocoanut oil, which I eoula get here: but suppose it turns it grey or blue or green.” And now there are bakl headed men who are trying to grow whiskers !
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3652, 12 October 1912, Page 9
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119Untitled Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3652, 12 October 1912, Page 9
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