WHY MEN SHOULD KEEP THEIR HATS ON.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1188, 27 October 1882, Page 2

WHY MEN SHOULD KEEP THEIR HATS ON.

• Dio Lewis accounts for the baldness of men in a simply way — the habit of keeping the head constantly covered.

He says you never see a man lose a, hair below where the hat touches skull. It will fall off as clean as you can shavo it down to exactly that line, but never a hoir below if lie has been bald fifty years. The common black stiff hat, as impervious as sheet iron, retains the heat and prespiration. The little hair glands that bear the same relation to the hair 'the seed wheat does to the plant above ground, becomes weak from the. moisture and heat, and finally be comes too weak to sustain the hair. It fails out, and baldness exists. A roan with a good head of hair needs very little protection where the hairs grows. "And yet." he says, "wo men wear immensely thick fur caps, and what amounts to sheet iron hats, and do not dare sap out in a chilly atmosphere a moment lest we take cold. It is silly, weak, and really a serious error. The Creator knew what he was about when He covered a man's head with hair. It was a very important function in protecting the brain. Baldness is a a serious misfortune. It will never occur to any man who wears such a hat as I do, a common white silk hat with 500 holes in the top, so that thee win he. more holes than hat. This cos! ? nothing ; the hatter will do it when you purchase your hat. If the i.'tp be combed back the wrong way, •v. d after the holes are made it may be ooinbed the right way, no one will observe the peculiarity. The hat will wear quite as long— the hatters say .onsidcrably longer — because it.- is dry I .."Toad of moist; in brief there is not n single objection to it while it will oe.iatrdy prevent baldness, keep the i tnp of the head cool and prevent m'tch headache." — "St Louis Globe- | emocrat."