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result. This, in brief, is the story of the loss of hair 

 that almost every person who is bald could tell. If 

 the question was ever given any attention in childhood 

 the thought was, "With my thick hair I can never 

 be bald !" How incorrect such a conclusion is, many 

 grown men can testify. 



It is right that all should try to retain any gift of 

 nature that improves the appearance. The loss of 

 much hair from the head certainly does not add to any 

 person's good looks. Health in the scalp and hair, 

 as in any part of the body, helps to give an impression 

 of youth and vigor. Every boy owes it to himself 

 to form the habit of looking out for the health of 

 his hair early in childhood. If he inherits a tendency 

 to baldness, wearing light head covering, brushing 

 and cleansing the hair, and daily rubbing the scalp 

 may all prove valuable preventives. In fact, care 

 in these respects has helped men to save their hair 

 after scalp disease had got a very good start. How 

 fine it is to see an old man with the head covering 

 nature gave him in childhood, changed perhaps in 

 color, but still vigorous in growth ! Any boy who has 

 the good sense to help nature preserve her own, may 

 keep his hair thus vigorous and abundant, if he lives 

 to old age. 



We should also learn to be wise in clothing the op- 

 posite extremities of our bodies, the feet. The ground 

 is an excellent conductor of heat, for which reason, 

 in cold weather, material that is a poor conductor 



