Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-29
BEAUTIFUL HAIR.
How to Obtain 1t and How Rest to
Preserve 1t.
From Harper's Bazar.l

[From Harper's BaZar.l
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 that of every other part OF the
body, is constantly being renewed inter-
naliy, and peeling off in scales as fine as
dust externally, and these are to be re-
moved by means of the body brush.
But it is not so easy to brush the halr
properly as one might imagine. Few hair
dressers, indeed. know very much about
it. The proper time for the operation,
then, is the morning, Just after you have
have not wetted the HAIR. Two kinds
Of brushes ought to be found on every
lady's toilette-table, hard and soft.
The former is first to be used, and used
well, but not too roughly; it removes
all dust, and acts like tonic on the
roots of the hair, stimulating the whole
capillary system to healthy action. Al
forwards use the soft brush-this to give
the gloss from which the morning sun
shine will presently CLINT and gleam
with a glory that no Macassar oil in the
world could initiate. Whence comes
this gloss you ask. Why, from the Sc
baceous glands at the roots OF the hair,
NATURES own patent pomade, which the
soft brush does but spread. Secondly,
one word on washing the hair. This is
necessary occasionally to thoroughly
y 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
i unperfumed; avoid so called hair-cleans-
4 ing fluids, and use rain-water filtered.
, The yolks of two new-laid eggs are
= much to be preferred to soap; they
q make beautiful lather, and when the
n washing is finished, and the hair thorough
S ly rinsed in the purest raln-water,
YOU will find when dry that the gloss
- will not be destroyed, which an alkali
J never fails to do The first water must
IS not be very hot, only just warm, and
Il the last perfectly cold. Dry with soft
o. towels do not rub till the skin is
. tender-and afterwards brush. Be very
:" careful always to have your brushes and
l. combs perfectly clean and free from
1t grease, and place other brushes on the
table for friends Of yours who happer
70 to be Macassarites.
IL Pointing the hair regularly not only
e prevents it from splitting at the ends
but renders each individual hair more
healthy, less attenuated-if l may ap
y ply the term to hair-and, moreovel
j. otherwise might be blunted or checked
" Singeing the tips Of the hair has also
10 beneficial effect.
1t will be seen that am no adyocat.
for oils and pomades. My advice, in al
t. cases, is to do without them if you pos
it, sibly can, for by their clogging mature
rs and er-stimulating properties the.
o often cause the hair to grow thi1
~ and fall off sooner than 1t otherwis
III would. Let we'll alone.
One word, in conclusion, about dyes
p Avoid them, if you be your own friend
10 Hair-dyeing is very satisfactory, as ia
=. as dead hair is concerned, but on tn
CT living head its perfect success ls
er chemical impossibility. AS to hair res
torers, those that are not simply stain
:. ers, but depend upon the action of tn
IL light chemically altering and oxildizin
w the application after it has been uset
r. Their incautious use, | must add,
rt fraught with great danger.