What Makes Some People Bald?
The chief cause of baldness is the lack of care of the hair. It is as necessary for the roots of the hair to have a free circulation of the blood and that the hair itself should have plenty of air as it is necessary for the brain to have a good circulation. A great many men become bald through wearing their hats most of the time. The hat pulled down tight over the head presses against the scalp and interferes with the circulation of the blood in the scalp. Then, also, many hats do not have any means of ventilation, and that keeps the pure air away from the hair. The hair then becomes sick and dies, just as flowers wilt if you keep them away from the air. You will notice that women do not become bald so easily. One reason is that even when the women wear large hats, as they often do, there is plenty of room for the air to circulate through the hair, even when the hat is on, and women’s hats are not pulled down tightly on the scalp. Therefore, they do not press on the arteries and veins in the scalp and interfere with the circulation of the blood. Another reason why women do not become bald is that the hair of women has long been their “crowning glory”; a man likes to see a fine head of hair on a woman, and as women have long tried to please men in every possible way, they take better care of their hair than men do, because they like to have the men consider it beautiful.