Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-08-14
Saoies' Department.
BEAUTIFUL HAIR.
NOW no Gun AND RErAIN IN.

To get and retain beautiful hair, you
must attend to daily brushing it, occa-
sionally washing it, and periodically
trimming it, and striving at all times to
keep the general health up to the aver
age.
Now as to brushing. The skin of the
head, like every other part of the body,
is constantly being renewed internally,
and peeling off in scales as fine as dust
externally, and these are to be removed
by means of the brush. But it is not
so easy to brush the hair properly as one
might imagine. Few hair-dressers in
deed, know very much about it. The
proper time for the operation, then, is
the morning, just alter you have come
out of your bath, provided yOu.have. not
wet the hair. Two kinds of brushes
ought to be found on every lady's tot
lette-table, hard and soft. The for
mer is first to be used. and used we'll,
but not too roughly it removes all dust,
and acts like tonic on the roots of the
hair, stimulating the whole system to
healthy action. Afterward use the soft
brush-this for a gloss, from which the
morning sunshine will presently CLINT
and CLEAN with glory that no Macassar
oil in the world could initiate. Whence
comes this gloss +? you ask. Why, from
the sebaceous glands at the roots of the
hair, Nature own patent pomade, which
the soft brush does but spread. Second
ly, one word on washing the hair This
is necessary occasionally to thoroughly
cleanse both head and hair. One or
two precautions must be taken, however.
Never use soap if you can avoid it; if
you do. let it be the very mildest and
unperfumed; avoid so-called hair-cleans-
ing fluids, and use rain-water filtered.
The yolks of two new-laid eggs arc much
to be preferred to soap; they make a
7 beautiful lather, and when the washing
is finished, and the hair thoroughly
rinsed in the purest rain-water, you
will find when dry that the gloss will
: not be destroyed, which an alkali never
fails to do. The first water must not
be very hot, only just warm, and the
last perfectly cold. Dry with soft tow
els-but do not rub till the skin Is ten
der-and afterward brush. Be very
careful to always have your brushes and
; combs perfectly clean and free from
Z grease, and place other brushes on the
table for friends of yours who HAPPIER
, to be Macassarites.
Pointing the hair regularly not only
prevents it from splitting at the ends
but it renders each individual hair NOR
, healthy, less attenuated-if l may
apply the term to hair-and, moreover
keeps up the growing process, whicl
If otherwise might be blunted or checked
is Singeing the tips of the hair, has also
e. beneficial effect.
D. 1t will be seen that am no advocat
y. of oils and pomades. My advice, in al
cases, is to do without them if you pos
sibly can, for by their clogging nature
CT and over-stimulating properties they of
ten cause the hair to grow thin, and ia
- sooner then it otherwise would La
we'll alone.
vi One word, in conclusion, about dye
'e, Avoid them, if you are your oW
NJ friend. Hair-dyeing is very satisfact
VI ry, as far as dead hair is concerned, b.
" on the living head its perfect success
.ne chemical inpossibility. AS to hair I
-. =. storers, those that are not simply stat
''e ers. depend upon the action of the Zig
u chemically altering and oxidizing t
'"O application after it has been used. TIT
Nv incautious use, must add, is fraug
' ~, with great danger, and trichosis turf
'iu aeea Eyes. / know am using dread
language. but desperate diseases ne
' desperate cures, and even worse, m
"" be the result.-Bazdr.