The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-03-31

W suo suaPe OF tne calf. More than
this, 1t has serious consequences of
another kind. The principal vein of
the leg loena saphena breois) runs just
beneath the skin, until it nearly reaches
the knee, when it sinks between the
muscles. Now if this is restricted at it's
largest part by tight garter, the blood
is checked in its return to the heart. the
feet are easily chilled, and more liable to
disease, the other veins of the legs are
swollen into hard, blue knots, become
varlcose, as it is called, and often break,
forming obstinate ulcers. This is q pic
ture which a physician sees nearly every
day. With the garter fastened above
the knee all this pain and deformity is
avoided; but it is still better to wear no
garter at all, and suspend the stocking
by tapes to belt around the waist. In
this case, however, q we'll fitting stocking
is needed.
A whole chapter is devoted to the sub
Ject of giving an artificial bloom to the
cheeks. The word rouge in French
simply means red, and is applied to a
great variety Of products having this
color. That, however, which is put up
and sold for the complexion. is generally,
and should be always, derived from one
or TWO sources: either from oochineal, q
small bug found on the leaves of the
cactus plant in Brazil. which Yields car
mine' or from the familiar plant known
as the 'dyers saffron" or saffron flower.
which furnishes carthamine. The latter
IS called 'ouge- -0egetale. A cheap, in
ferior, and injurious article is PREPARED
from vermiion, which is q form of
mercury, and sHould be avoided. Be-
sides rouge, blue coloring matter is en-
ployed to indicate the veins. "En-
amellipg" is explained to be nothing
more than skilful painting of the face,
often done with injurious substances.
Wrinkles are filled up with paste. and
the pigments then laid on by the en-
ameller.
The growth of the hair in O healthy
scalp is from eight to ten inches n YEAR.
Its rapidity is not the same at oil times.
A German writer who has given great
attention to this small matter lif. indeed.
any OF the operations Of nature should
be called small, has found that it grows
faster In the daytime than ut night, and
III the summer than winter. There is n
common notion that the increase is also
more marked IN the first half of the
lunar month, and there are not wanting
men OF science who have endorsed this
belief. "Who does not know by his
own experience" confidently says the
Abbo Ioaldo. in his S-gaic Meteorolo-
glco' tnnt the hair and nails grow faster
alter the new than after the full moon?"
Io :, which question most physicians
coolly reply that nobody knows it. AS
it is q matter of ones own experience
we recommend every one who is curious
about it to observe for himself, and make
up his own mind, irrespective of the
agreement of DOCTORS
Vast quantities of sugar OF lead have
been used of late years for a dye. It is
usually compounded with glycerine, wa
ter, flower of sulphur, and some aromatic
and coloring substances. This is the
composition of nine out of ten of the
hair restorers, hair tonics, and hnir
washes, SO loudly advertised all over the
country. No doubt the lead and sui
phur do darken the hair, but the color
thy yield is dirty brown, not at all
natural or pleasing. This is not all. We
must condemn this mixture, or any mix.
ture for this purpose containing lead. as
dangerous to health and life. Several
cases have occurred within the last wear
or two. where lead palsy, lead collie, and
fatal poisoning were caused by the use of
Just such hair dyes. Very recently q
physician of Davenport, Iowa, who for
lour years nau employed lead dye for
his hair and beard, perished with all the
symptoms of lead poison. A chemical
examination proved that the metal had
been absorbed by the skin, and was pre-.
sent In his internal organs.
A few years ago an absurd clamor was
raised by some sensational papers about
the alleged discovery of minute ova-
nits, In plain terms-on the hair sold for
chignons. 1t was asserted that any one
who wore them exposed her head to the
invasion of very unwelcome guests of
the insect kind. Small masses called
gregarines were pointed onton some hair
as these pretended ova. There was not
a word of scientific truth in all this. The
methods employed to prepare hair for
market will certainly clean it thoroughly
from all such impurities, and the gre
garines, when examined by competent
microscopists, turn out to be nothing but
very minute fungi, entirely harmless to
the skin, and also very rarely met with
on fnlse hair of any kind.
The following is summary of advice
to woman who wishes to be- beautiful:
First, let her correct her bad hnhits 10