appearance. If the hairs appear stunted in their growth upon portions
of the scalp or beard, or gray hairs crop up here and there, the
method of clipping off the ends of the short hairs, of plucking out
the ragged, withered, and gray hairs, will allow them to grow
stronger, longer, and thicker.

Mothers, in rearing their children, should not cut their hair at
certain periods of the year (during the superstitious time of full
moon), in order to increase its length and luxuriance as they bloom
into womanhood, and manhood. This habit of cutting the hair of
children brings evil in place of good, and is also condemned by the
distinguished worker in this department, Professor Kaposi, of Vienna,
who states that it is well known that the hair of women who possess
luxuriant locks from the time of girlhood never again attains its
original length after having once been cut.

Pincus has made the same observation by frequent experiment, and he
adds that there is a general opinion that frequent cutting of the hair
increases its length; but the effect is different from that generally
supposed. Thus, upon one occasion he states that he cut off circles of
hair an inch in diameter on the heads of healthy men, and from week to
week compared the intensity of growth of the shorn place with the rest
of the hair. The result was surprising to this close and careful
observer, as he found in some cases the numbers were equal, but
generally the growth became slower after cutting, and he has never
observed an increase in rapidity.

I might also add that I believe many beardless faces and bald heads in
middle and advancing age are often due to constant cutting and shaving
in early life. The young girls and boys seen daily upon our streets