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ALL
OVER
Just WHY
YOU ARE
Getting BALD
Bv Prof. W. PEABODY BARTLETT.
O N many large plain* you will find spot* where tn*
grass doe* not (crow. Plant these place* to
gra*B. put in Irrigating canal* and your barren
spot* will become covered with graiw. Aa long a*
your Irrigating canal* work properly and a etifflclen
supply of water reacheB the once barren spot*, the grant
will continue to grow.
< Now cut out your supply of water In the canal*
and Bee what happen* The grant* will cease growing.
It will turn brown, and next season no more gras* will
grow, while the old grass will hive been worn away,
trodden down, blown off and disappeared.
The spot once green with a luxuriant growth of
grass has become "bald."
You have a good head of hair. This Is because the
blood supply at the roots of the hair la plentiful. Now
THE SCALP NEEDS Blood IRRIGATION, Just as a Field Needs Water Irrigation
wear continually a tight hat that binds the tiny
arteries and does not allow the blood to reach the
hair roots, and wherever this happens the hair will be
gin to come out. Unless this is promptly relieved no
more hair will grow.
Again, your advancing a^e may be responsible for
an Impoverished condition of the blood, and for a hard
ening of those very minute arteries in the scalp. The
same result follows, baldnees. Your head needs Irri
gating about the hair root# as the barren prairie needs
Irrigating about the graae roots.
It has been said that there are germs that cause
baldness. This microbe of baldness has I teen discov
ered, but along with this discovery has come another
discovery to the effect that It Isn’t the microbes that
rouse baldness, but baldness that causes the microbe.
This microbe la found on bald heads because K lives
where hair cannot live.
Yet this microbe le no more to be blamed for bald
ness than weeds growing rank on an abandoned farm
are to be blamed for the poor condition of the land.
Both baldness and hardening oi the arteries result from
the same cause. The scalp Is nourished by means of
blood Irrigation from many groupa of arteries. Bach
one of theae carries the needed nourishment to a little
group of hair roots. If your hat or any head covering
so compresses these arteries that the blood cannot
A and B—Where Baldness Begins. C
—Hew Hats Bind the Head.. D, E and
F—-Ends nf Tiny Arteries Where the
Blond Supply Is First Stopped by
tm.un
roach the hair roots, baldness begins. The hair falls
out only whqre it dies out. A healthy hair will not fall
out. The first hair to die out is that at the ends of
these irrigating arteries. This is quite natural, since
the blood reaches these ends of arteries last A* these
terminal spots are over the temples and on the back of
the head, baldness naturally first begins In those places.
Our scalpe are really advance guards of our systems,
and the flrat to give warning of impoverished blood cir
culation. Since hair pas put upon our heads for the
protection of our scalp, it Is wrong to crop it or shave
It or even put strong washing solutions in the hair that
take away the oily substances that furnish the life of the
hair Itself. All this will help to bring baldness. If yoa
keep the hair so thoroughly scrubbed with alkaline sub
stances as to keep the oil washed out, your baldness will
come on much more quickly. Cold water Is not natural,
and has a tendency to do harm to the hair and the whole
system if too frequently applied. Sick people should
never have their hair shaved from their heads If it la
a possible thing to avoid It, because a convalescent
needa the protection to his scalp.
If your hair is beginning to fall out, your chief care
should be to increase the blood supply; do not bind the
scalp with stiff hats. Take exercise and get In the
open air and consult a reliable physician as to the beat
means of improving the quantity and quality of your
blood. This will stave off baldness to a remarkable
degree.
When your brush and comb bring out quantities
of hair it is because the hair is dead and ready to fall
out. Hair that falls out naturally will be replaced with
strong hair, otherwise the hair that comes out will not
be replaced at all, or else weaker hair will take it3
place, which will soon die and fall out, and no more
will grow there.
Baldness and gray hair are quite different matters.
The normal color of your hair depends upon the color
ing of pigments deposited in the channels that supply
the nourishment. Man’s hair will whiten where the
skin is irritated, subjected to pressure or kept wet,
aside from turning white through the advancing years,
when the supply of coloring matter is lessened or en
tirely cut off.
Oily fluids are a natural nourishment for the hair.
It has been said that ordinary vaseline is one of the
best hair-growers known. Some people have even
massaged the scalp with beef marrow with good results.
That oil Is the natural food of the hair Is ahown in the
manner in which the hair bathes in the oily fluid held
in the terminal cup of the Bebaceous glands before it
springs forth from the follicle. This bnth, which each
hair undergoes before it springs forth, strengthens the
pigments, tones the color and renders the hair fit to
cope with the destructive action of atmonphsric heat
and cold.
Some NEW THINGS Found Out ABOUT SUNBURN
By Dr. L. K. HIRSHBERG.
S OME recent experiments made In Algiers, coupled
with experiments made in this country last sea
son, concerning the action of the sun on the human
skin, together with preventives and remedies for these
burns, have brought to light considerable that is new
and Interesting concerning sunburn under various con
ditions.
The recent experiments in Algiers were made by
Surgeon-Major Nuramond de I-aroguetle, of the French
Army, and he waw awarded a medical prize by the
government for his successful work along these lines.
It 1ms long been known that the sun's rays set up va
rious reactions in the skin, according to the quality,
the Intensity and the duration of your exposure to the
sun. The results of slrong sunshine, and experiments
Oj tIn* sun’s effects on areas of skin of various parts
of the body exposed to the o|>en air or behind glass
screens differ with people according to their com
plexions, their general health and their skin.
In the open.air—In man—exposure of from thirty to
forty minutes to the sun at Atlantic City gave rise to
slight flashy redness, accompanied by a little swenting.
This redness made Its appearance after fifteen to twenty
minutes' exposure, and aoon subsided. It only occurs
when the temperature exceeds ninety degrees. It Is a
redness which appears to bo due quite as much to con
tact with heated air as to the direct action of the heat
rays of the gun.
Toward the second hour after exposure a secondary
redness began to make its appearance which underwent
gradual development during the remainder of the day;
already well marked by the fourth hour, it reached Us
maximum toward the twelfth hour. At this .-'lage the
hue was uniformly bright red. but pressure with the
finger drove the blood out of the dilated veins and
capillaries, leaving a white mark. Twenty-tour hours
later this was no longer the case; there was more or
less discoloration under the skin, with red spots about
the color of wine dregs. In the course of the next four
days this discoloration became much darker, and each
succeeding day for three weeks the skin became
browner and browner. The skins that were most red
at first were the ones that aftrward became the darkest.
This dark color peristsed for a variable lapse of time,
from several weeks to several months, according to
the severity and the number of exposures to sunlight.
It then faded-and slowly disappeared.
In a series of experiments parts of skin were ex
posed to the sun after being variously tinted with
water colors: violet, blue, green, red, black and brown,
the colors being well marked and of medium depth, but
having no thickness. Under violet and blue the reac
tions were approximately as pronounced as in the open
air. In the other parts the redness was rather less pro
nounced, though still well marked. With the different
colors, even under the blue and violet, the redness was
very trifling; when the color was dark and thick It
formed a protective varnish on the epidermis. Color
bands alternately light and dark, with and without
thickness, yielded zones of redness, which differ
greatly and were well marked or very slight
In spite of the artificial coloration of the skin, the
redness ran Its course thereafter toward pigmentation
much the same as In the open air.- with an intensity
proportional to the amount of the rednes.
Under window glass the secondary redness is not
so great and appears slowly; it requires sittings, lasting
at least sixty minutes, In a strong sun to produce slight
rednes*. The dark brown color is also much less
marked and of shorter duration. Under the different
colored glaseee marked dlfferencee were noted; under
the yellow, red, blue and violet glasses the primary
erythema was about equal to that met with under win
dow glass. Under the black or smoked and green
glasses it is less marked than under window glass when
the latter Is kept at a small distance from the skin,
more pronounced on the oontrary when the glass is in
contact
The final series of tests were made to find a cure
or some preventive of sunburn. When water leltept In
contact with the skin in a very thin layer, the skin be
came sunburned even more quickly than in dry air.
Glycerine applied In the same way helped only a little
in preventing the sunburn; but olive oil, vaseline, cold
cream, wool fat and oils or fats In general all. whether
in ointment form or plain, almost entirely prevented any
development whatsoever of the redness, the browning,
the blisters or any signs of sunburn.
The treatment of sunburn then, according to these
new discoveries, is not only to anoint your skin with
vaseline or olive oil before encountering the sun’s rays, \
but also to use fatty and oily unguents for the relief and '
treatment of sunburn, once it has developed. Car- j
bolated vaseline or oil, salicylic acid ointments, cala- \
mine lotion and other such simple remedies should
be among the equipment of everyone venturing forth {
on a Summer's afternoon or a longer holiday at the (
seashore or the mountain. )
Experiments made on severe sunburn proved of un
usual Interest. It was found that tender skin sub- j
jected to powerful sun s rays throughout the day and (
repeated one or more days resulted in such burns that ,
large blisters, as large as quarter and half dollars, J
would appear on the skin, while the soreness had the
same sensation as would follow on being badly burned ;
by hot liquids. /
In a party of young fellows starting camping out !
and going about during the day in the hot sun wearing
only sleeveless Jerseys, some of them were prepared
tor the sunburn by means of rubbing them in carbo- j
lateo vaseline. The result was that they had no blist
ers, nor even sufficient redness of the skin to make ■
themselves uncomfortable, while the others, who, in
the experiment, went about without this on their skins )
were severely sunburned.
People with only a couple of weeks' vacation who
wish to lay about on the shore or paddle canoes with
shoulders and arms bared will save themselves a great
deal of suffering with Just such a simple precaution as
covering themselves wherever exposed with the vase
line. Generally only the Up of the nose really "peels”
from sunburn, and by keeping carbolated vaseline on
the nose even this disagreeable trouble can be avoided
Harvesting the Grain
Without Reaping It
H AD any one stated only a short while
ago that the labor of reaping grain
was a waste of time and energy and
money be would have been looked upon as
a dreamer, a man with an unpractical Im
agination, but to-day a Kansas man, Curtis
C. Baldwin, claims to have perfected a thresh
ing machine which gathers and threshes the
grain without the necessity of reaping It. In
other words, the grain is secured, cleanly
threshed, but the straw is left standing rooted
in the field just as it grew.
Practical farmers claim many advantages
for this method. In the first place it saves a
vast amount of labor. The need of reaping
the grain, securing it in proper piles to be
fed into a thresher and taking away the straw
afterward is a great expense. In the second
place, It is held to be much better to leave the
straw standing in the fields and to plow it
back into the sod, where it is worth far more
to the farmer as fertilizer for his soil than
it would bring if sold merely as straw.
Then again, it saves large areas of land
that have hitherto been occupied with these
gigantic straw piles and also prevents no lit
tle losses that have resulted from accidental
burning of such piles. The reaper travels
through the grain fields “head-first.” That Is,
a part of the machinery protrudes like the
cow-catcher of a locomoUve, and a draft of
air made by a revolving fan draws the heads
of the grain into an opening, where a revolv
ing sort of paddle wheel or cylinder with teeth
removes them. Other mechanism carries the
grain through threshing machinery that blows
out the chaff and allows the clean grain to
fall from a tube into a bag, or even through
an extension tube Into a cart. Horses may
haul the thresher or motor power may bo
adopted where the land Is sufficiently level
and smooth to allow it.
This Invention does away with the need
of a great many farm hands in harvest time,
and as such men are always difficult to se
cure, It means an advantage to the farmers
in a great many ways.
Mr. Baldwin, the inventor, claims this non-
reaping threshing machine will reduce the
cost of harvesting grain from 14 cents to 2
cents a bushel. A reduction that, if all farm
ers used it, might help a little in reducing thi,
cost of grain from grower straight through to
consumer.
The machine is made adjustable, so that it
may harvest the grain from oats, wheat, rye,
barley and the like, and even be adjusted to
suit various fields of grain, as some matures
with far shorter stalks than others. Once
adjusted, the machine will go through a grain
field, the inventor claims, and save a much
larger per centage of the grain than could
be saved by the old method of first-cutting
it and putting it in “shocks" or bundles and
later tossed into the old-style reaper, as by
that rough method much of the ripe grain
was shattered and lost in the stubble of the
field.
After the grain has been harvested
with this machine nothing more need be
done until ploughing time, when the thor
oughly dry stalks, together with their roots,
are turned over and buried well under the
ground. These, of course, decay and furnish
a valuable form of fertilizer for the soil.
Being quite dead by the time of the plough
ing the roots do not sprout to give trouble,
but merely decay. As the land has to be
ploughed before planting there is no extra
work in this.
QUASSIA for the CURE
of the DRINK HABIT
A LL. sorts of "cures" for the drink habit
have been recommended, from the
humble meadow herbs to bi-chloride of
gold, hut one of the simplest remedies, ac
cording to Dr. T. D. CrotherB, of Buffalo, is
quassia, that bitterest of drinks. For office
or home treatment Dr. Crothers believes it is
of the best.
"I have found," said Dr. Crothers, "a con
centrated solution of quassia to be the most
effective of *11 the remedies." He explains
that an infusion of quassia should be made
and then boiled down once or twice in order
to obtain double the strength. It should be
given to a drinking man with strict orders
to take half an ounce every two hours
throughout the day.
The drinking man may drink his liquor
quite as usual, but under no consideration
must he neglect his half ounce of quaBSia
every two hours. This remedy is. of course,
best for the drink victim who is anxious
himself to gain a victory over it.
The way this works is that in a short time
a form of quassia poisoning comes on. This
poisoning does not affect the victim In any
way except to make all forms of spirituous
liquors intensely disgusting and actually re
pelling to him.
Ordinarily the result of this is at first sur
prise on the part of the drinking man when
he discovers that he not only does not like
liquor, but that it makee him deathly ill to
drink it. Next he la pleased—that Is, pro
viding he is anxioua to cure himself—and
while the bitter quassia is extremely un
pleasant he sticks to it and takes pleasure
in drinking it, knowing that a cure is being
effected. From a strong dislike of liquor the
moment he tries to drink it he begins to
dread trying to drink it and finally all de
sire to make the attempt haa left him.
"Invariably,” says Dr. Crothera, "suoh a
drink vlctif who honestly desires to break
himself of the habit expresses his deepest
gratitude to his physician after he has taken
the cure.” )
New Ways to Kill POISON WEEDS; Some New ANTIDOTES
^ ^ A N ounce of prevention is worth a pound of
cure" la the old adage we all know, and it
“ “ works well in case of the slightest chance of
ivy poisoning.
Some men had been employed to root out poison ivy.
They were prepared for the work by swathing their
arms and wrists in bandages, and heavy gloves were
given them to put on. After rooting out the ivy vines
hot water end laundry 3oap were ready for use, in
which they first washed very thoroughly their hands
and arms, using the water as hot as they could bear, after
which they washed their faces and necks, then again
their hands, thus washing off any effects of possible ab
sorption of liquid front the plants. Not a man was poi
soned by his dangerous work.
It is held that the contact of poison ivy does not act
at once, and if any one feels that they have been too
near or touched unknowingly the iry while gathering
wild flowers—If they will use this hot water and soap a*
soon a* home le reached serious effect may be fore
stalled. If the poison has developed In email blisters
like water blisters, a free use of household ammonla-
olear—will dry up very qulokly, unless It becomes a
serious case, where a physician should be called, who
will probably prescribe a lotion or wash of lead, to be
used externally- only Be very careful not to rub the
eyeB with poisoned fingers.
Of course, the right thing to do is to advocate the
destruction of poison ivy, wherever found—along the
road sides and on stone walls especially; in fields, as it
is a menace to all passers-by, many being affected In
simply passing it, particularly if the wind should hap
pen to blow toward the paeser-by over the vine.
Garden clubs, village improvement societies, park
commissioners in various parts of the States where the
vine flourishes triumphant, could easily make a crusade
against it this Fall and request owners of property to
root it out and diminish the danger.
There are several ways of accomplishing this—burn
ing in heaps after uprooting, or leaving them to freeze;
pouring kerosene over It where it grows on the roots; In
small sections, such as private gardens, if one will per
sistently cut off the foliage, Its breathing powers will
be eliminated and it will die eventually. If one decides
to burn the roots and vines care must be taken to avoid
breathing the fumes or smoke, standing away from the
wind as the fumes are very poisonous to breathe.
The poison Ivy, poison sumac, poison dogwood,
swamp sumao, all cause irritation of the skin. A satu
rated atoohollc solution of lead acetate le considered
a specific for these.
The bestseason to destroy poison ivy (rhus radicus)
is very early in the Spring, just as the leaves develop,
or late in the Fall—never when it is in bloom or in it*
most vigorous state.
Wherever the three-leaved poison ivy grows you will
find its companion, the five-leaved Virginia .creeper of*
woodbine in the imtnediate neighborhood, which is con
sidered the antidote for the poison.
In case of poisoning by water hemlock emetics
should be used at once or a stomach pump, the feet
kept warm and a physician called at once.
Belladona is another poisonous vine to be found at
tractive in the woods. It has purple, bell-shaped flow
ers, rather open, about the size of the harebell found In
clusters, and which develop into beautiful green berries,
size of a small wild cherry, turning red toward Fall and
black when ripe. The taste Is sweet, but the whole
plant has a heavy, disagreeable odor. All parts of the
plant are poisonous and the root has been mistaken for a
parsnip. It is also called the deadly nightshade from
Its stupefying effect. For this poison use an emetic and
call your doctor. The jimson weed—datum* sarmonlnm
with long ornate leaves and large, tubular white flow
ers—as well as bittersweet,—salamim dulcamara—are
poisonous to eat, although not lrritalng to the skin, and
therefore should be avoided where children ate in the
party.
Why WOMEN Have Been TIMID and CHILDREN LIKE to Play “HIDE AND SEEK”
By WILLIAM LEE HOWARD, M.D.
I N the paleolithic, or stone age, the people living on
the shores of the Baltic and German seas, as well as
the peoples in France, are known to have been can
nibals In those far off days the races from which we
sprang differed but little from the savages of Terra del
Fuego a century ago. •
These savages lived in clans or communities which
preyed upon each other Any one coming Into a clan
village from another was considered an enemy, and so
treated, for his call was to carry off a woman for a
slave or a child for food.
At certain times the men of a clan would go to the
hunt, remaining away for several days, the women sit
ting and watching at the entrances of their cave homes.
The children would play outside, ever watchful. Upon
spying a stranger the child would run in terror to Its
mother, who fled to the uttermost end of the dark
cavern. Perhaps a general raid would be made, when
mothers and children fled for safety. Frequently most
r*
all of the women and children would be captured, the
returning husbands finding their homes empty of wives
and children. The few women who were alert and
agile enough to escape never forgot their fright, and
this instinct of terror waB born in the future children
from generation to generation.
These inherited instincts are slowly, very slowly
eradicated from the human memory, and can be seen to
day In the rush to the mother a child makes upon the
approach of a stranger. Perhaps when yon see a pro-
uounced evidence of thi* fear In a child and mother,
the instinct has come down through thousands of
years from a child and mother who had to flee to the
woods or to the cover of swamps and remain for
weeks or months in awful terror. Perhaps the child
was prenatally developed under this time of maternal
fright and suffering.
Naturally the Instinct of fear of stranger* would be
perpetuated, as are most of our Instincts which past
conditions of existence developed. We must remember
that the state of society in which these occurrences
la the Prehistoric Days th* Sava*. Children Learned to Ran and Hide in Their Care Homes
Whenever TT>ey Saw an Enemy Approach to Capture or Kill Them. Children of To-day Lore
to Play "Hide and Seek” BecauseThey Inherit the Memory of These Prehistoric Dangers
would be frequent lasted many thousands of years, and
that probably no generation was exempt from this par
ticular Influence.
The play of young children is almost always some
form of mimic warfare. There is the game of "hide and
seek. The child hides behind a door or curtain and
pretends to fear, and when discovered utters cries of
alarm and attempts to flee the stranger who seeks
his prey. "Bo-peep” is simply another example of this
ancestral trait. When the little child peers around the)
corner of a table or bed and suddenly draws back ini
hiding, we have a modern illustration of what it had
to do thousands of years ago.
But this latter game demonstrates the force of in-'
herited instincts of a much earlier form of existence.
It is the remains of a habit of arboreal ancestors. The
table, bed or chair is merely a substitute for a part of
the tree trunks behind which the body is supposed to
be hidden, while the eyes, and as little else as |K>ssible,
are exposed tor a moment to sorutlnlse a possible enemy
and then quickly withdraw.
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