The Archive · 1928

Things to Think of

To the Editor of the "NontH-Cutxa Darcy News."

Sim—When our British brothers and European cousins tax Americans with being money sgrubbers, they must not forget the "spoiling of the Egyptians" (American tourists) that takes place in Europe every summer, Europe absorbs all our spave cash every summer. In. deed, it is beginning to look as if America, if she wants to keep any money at home, will have to make a bid for some of this tourist traffic herself by importing a few old ruined castles, or by making use of the drawing power of her pictures-Que Indian tribes, "Europe surely "has the laugh onus" every she should spare us the rest of the year.

Bald or Bristly? to say. I wanted to speak about the Way advertisements fleece the world, "Advertisements in our American journals—and I suppose European journals also—tell us that dandruff will cause us to lose our hair unless we use Smith's hair Tonic, or Jones's Danderine, or Brown's Listeroid. But what is ordinary scurf or dandruff? It is simply waste skin. Every part of the surface of the body, naturally sheds this dead, waste, duter skin} but the particles of skin that come from the scalp are more noticeable Dbeeause they are caught among the hairs of the head and are then shed upon the coat collar. I have had a great deal of dandruff all Tiges yet my hair is thick and abundant, "In fact, it may that copious dandruff accompanies thick, abundant hair, for two reasons.' First, because it is an indieation of strong, healthy activity of the scalp; second, because thick hair catches and retains more of the skin particles. T heard an old, Perienced barber say that men who (QR become bald have thin scalps. seid they have not enough blood

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