THE LONG HAIRED GENUS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 275, 12 April 1913, Page 10

THE LONG HAIRED GENUS

Most people liavo im impression that the luxuriant hair of the professional musician is a mere affectation, the product of vanity and leisure. Hut 11. Henri <le Parville says that the hair is actually a direct result of the music, the strains of the piano, the violin, the piccolo and other soft-toned instruments having a remarkably stimulating effect, on the growth of the head's natural covering. The reverberation of the brass instruments, on the other hand, are an incitement to baldness. "A flute, regularly played." adds if. de Parville. "has a wonderfully fertilising effect, upon side whispers, and that is no doubt the reason that in the 'eighties this instrument was held in such high favor by certain distinguished Q.C.'s at the Parliamentary and Chancery Par. Among these learned gentlemen, too. diurnal exercise on the big drum was found to be so stimulating to voice production as flautistry is to the growth of whiskers." Tt has been suggested by converts to this theory that a "pianola treatment" might be devised for the use of people whose hair is growing (bin. strains of Wagner and Strauss being substituted for the usual restorers. There should be possibilities of popularity about (he musical shampoo.