HAIR ON STRIKE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3387, 16 January 1920, Page 3

HAIR ON STRIKE.

A note of ‘alarm has been sounded wliich may well cause concern to those young Inell——legioll in every eountry—who have adopted the style of brushing their hair well back, using oils and pomades to make it stick to the skull (so writes the Paris correspond--2.-nt ot"a London paper -of a. recent date). For"’r.hese smooth and glossy heads an unpleasant. penalty is prophesied -by a hair expert here. He says tlrat. thoinevitablo result of this fashion will be that these who adopt it. will have no hair in fifteen years’ time. As the stylg is almost univ‘er--sal, a generation of balcllleatledmen is envisaged. " Eirnsliiiig the hair back, he says, is a.l)Solu't,elj\-' coiitrary to the natural disposition of it. “You are oifeircliiig the llai'r," heladds, “causing it to go on strike, to cease g‘rowing—i~n short, to fall out.” “The present. generaltion will unslonb?<~dly go bald before its time,” s-aid a leladink West. End h:2.irdresser to a “Daily News” representative. “The first cause is that modern men and. women worry far too much. Worry reat-t_a_: on the system and through the sj,n<teln on the hair. The second reason is that the m'ajori:_\;. one might almost say. of’ the present g'enel‘:ltion have spent four or five years in uniform, and have worn heavy hats. They will all find theniselve at least '3; litHe thin on top. A heavy hat is very had for tho hair. “'l‘here is only one Cure ‘l"n1- baldness.” he eoncludetl, “and that is nlass:lg<- oi‘ the scalp.”