BALDNESS IN WOMEN

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1928, Page 1

BALDNESS IN WOMEN

THE SHINGLE AND TIGHT HATS LONDON, Jan. 25. “When shingling first became universal I ventured,” writes the Medical Correspondent of the “Daily Chronicle,” “to prophesy that before long many women, especially those who were no longer young, would find to their dismay that they were growing bald. “This forecast was vigorously poohpoohed in a great many papers, both lay and medical, and in some women’s papers it was treated with that ingenious asperity usually reserved for religious controversy. “It is pleasing to a prophet’s vanity to sav, ‘I told you so’; I may therefore be pardoned if I record the fact that I have recently seen it stated in at least one woman’s paper that the now admitted tendency to baldness among women was due to a combination of the shingle and the tight hat. “I am not concerned to deny the complicity of the tight hat, but concerning it would merely point out that in the absence of the shingle it would not lie operative; so that in reality it is -the shingle which is the real villain of the piece.

‘‘After all, there is lie mystery about baldness. Jt is due to that want of attention which is so much facilitated by short hair. When 'this factor is reinforced by a hat which is tight enough l to interfere with the circula-tion-if the sbatpt, the result'in a very large nOjttber-of people cat} sejireely-fee in'-dehbV 1 -- ' " r ‘ " •