WHY MEN SHOULD KEEP THEIR HATS ON.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6697, 4 October 1882, Page 4

WHY MEN SHOULD KEEP THEIR HATS ON.

Dio Lewis accounts for the baldness of men in a simple way—the habit of keeping the head constantly covered. He says you never see a man lose a hair below where the hat touches his skull. It will fall off as clean as you can shave it down to exactly that line, but never a hair below, if he has been bald fifty years. The* common black stiff hat, as impervious as sheet iron, retains the heat and perspiration. The little hair glands, which bear the same relation to the hair that the seed wheat does to the plant i above ground, become weak from the moisture and heat, and finally become too weak to sustain the hair. It falls out, and baldness exists. A man with a good head of hair needs very little protection where the htijr grows. “ And yet," he says, “we men wear immensely thick fur. caps', and what amounts to sheet iron hats, and do not dare step out in a chilly atmosphere amoment 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 serious misfortune. It will never occur to any man who wears such a hat as I do, a qommoii, white silk hat with 500 holes in the top, so that there will be more holes than hat. This costs nothing ; the hatter will do it when you purchase your hat. If the nap be combed back the wrong way, and after the holes are made it ; may be combed the right way,, no one will observe the peculiarity. The hat will wear quite as long—the hatters say considerably longer—because it is dry, instead of moist; in brief, there is not a single objection to it, while it will certainly prevent baldness, keep the top of the head cool and prevent, much headache.”- “ St. Louis Globe-Democrat.” ;