Cultivate then Soil the Scalp.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 28 August 1914, Page 2

Cultivate then Soil the Scalp.

M»n get bald more frequently than women, according to Dr. Guelpa, of Paris, because they wear hard' heavy hats, they cut thoi'r hair too short and they eat more than women. Dr. Guelpa says the scalp is like soil, and the hair like the vegetation that grows upon it. When the scalp is neglected the hair does not grow and its roots die, just as grass dies when the soil is poor. A heavy, hard hat constricts the blood vessels that nourish the scalp. Clipping the hair short leaves its tender roots at the mercy of cold, heat and dust. The oil that exudes from around the roots of the hairs and keeps them nourished is coagulated by the cold and chokes up the matrix in which the hair is formed.