Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-07-27

To get and retain beautiful hair you must
attend to daily brushing it, occasionally
washing IL, aud periodically trimming 1t,
and striving at all times TO keep the general
health up TO the average.
Now as TO brushing. The skin Of the
head, like that of every other part of the
body, is being constantly renewed Intern
ally, and throwing of minute scales OK
ternally, and these are removed by means
Of the body brush. But II Is not so easy to
brush the hair as one might imagine. Few
hairdressers, indeed, know very much
about it. The proper time for the opera
ton, then, is in the morning, just after you
have come out of your bath, provided you
have not wetted you hair. Two kinds OF
brushes ought to he found on every lady's
table, hard and a soft. The former is first
TO be used, and used well, but not too
roughly; IL removes all dust, and acts like
tonic on the roots OF the hair, stimulating
the whole capillary system to healthy ac-
ton. Aferward use the soft brush-to
give the hair the gloss from which the
morning sunshine will presently CLINT and
CLEAN with glory that no Macassar oil in
the world could initiate. Whence this
gloss you ask. Why from the sebacious
glands at the root of the hair, natures own
patent ponade, which the hard brush does
not spread.
Secondly-One word on washing the hair.
This is necessary occasionally, TO thorough
~ cleanse both head and hair. One or two
precautions must be taken, however. New
or use soap If you can avoid ii if you do,
let II be the very mildest and unperGumed.
Avoid so.called hair cleansing fluids, and
use rain-water filtered.
The yolks of two new.laid eggs are much
to be preferred to soap; they make a beau
tiful lather, and when the washing Is finish
ed, and the hair thoroughly rinsed in the
purest rain water, you will find when dry
that the gloss will moi he 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 tender
and afterward brush. Be always careful 10
have your brushes and combs perfectly
clean and free flom grease, and place other
brushes on the table for friends of yours
who happen TO be Maca ssarites.
Pointing the hair regularly not only pre-
vents it from splitting at the ends, but rem
ders each individual hair more healthy and
less attenuated-if may apply the term to
hair-and, moreover, keeps upthe growing
process, which otherwise might be blunted
or checked. Singing the tips of the hair
has also beneficial effect.
II will be seen that am no advocate for
oils and pomades. My advice, in all cases,
is to do without them If you possibly can,
for by their clogging nature and over-stim-
ulating properties they often cause the hair
to grow thin and fall off sooner than it 9TH
erwise would. Let well alone.
One word in conclusion about dyes.
Avoid them If you be your own friend.
Hair dyeing is very satisfactory, as far as
dead hair is concerned, but on the living
head, its perfect success is chemical i'm
possibility. As to hair restorers, those that
are not simply stainers, but depend upon
the action of the light chemically altering
and oxidyzing the application afer it has
been used-their incautous use, must add,
is rraught with great danger -Hdrper's Bd-
gar.