Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-08
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WOMAN'S HAIR.

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This is the best tonic in the world. tax
ing the place of all pomades, washes and
lotions. 1t cleanses the head even better
than shampooing, and is far more effect
ual than the ivory comb, which irritates
the scalp and Injuries the hair. Choose
a good-slzed brush with long, moderately |
stiff bristles, or, better still, stiff one
for cleansing the hair and soft one for
smoothing it. The London crown brush
es are the best, the bristles being rivited
in such manner that they do not loosen
or fall out. Brush your hair vigorously
morning and night, or get some one to
do it for you if you can. A hundred
strokes Of the brush is the legitimate
allowance, and as these can be given by
an expert in three minutes, it will not
consume much time. Try this for few
weeks and you will find your hair become
as silky and glossy as satin, without the
aid of the vulgar and dirty pomades.
which no lady of refinement will tolerate.
If your hair is moist or matted, it is
we'll to rub into it some fine starch pow
der or corn starch, and afterward brush
it until the glossy condition is reached.
Water has tendency to dry up the nat
ural oil of the hair. 1t should be used
only when the hair is thin and short
enough to dry Immediately. Long. thick
hair that is often wet, soon becomes
musty and disagreeable. The best meth
cd Of shampooing is to rub the head
well with the yolks of one or two eggs,
slightly beaten, and afterward with a
little water, thus producing fine lather.
When the head is thoroughly cleansed,
rinse it with cold water, and dry with
towels as much as possible. If not sus-
ceptible to cold, spread out the treeses
in current of air, and by no means put
them up until all moisture is evaporated.
Borax and ammonia and water may be
used instead of egg. and cleanse the hair
efectually, although. perhaps, with more
danger of injury to the hair. Ammonia,
however, is an excellent stimulus when
used with care, and makes fine dress
ing, mixed with glycerine.
Next to the constant use of the brush,
we would recommend the frequent cut
ting of the ends of the hair, not merely
Of the long ends, but of the broken and
jagged tips of the short hairs, the under
brush as it were. This can be easily
done by parting the hair in small locks,
then letting each lock slip through the
large teeth of dressing comb, and clip
ping off the forked ends as they appear
above the comb, which is held slightly
bent. The only effect of cutting the
hair at the full of the moon or at the
turn of the tide, is that superstitious
observance is likely to insure regularity.
There will always be those who cry fol
pomades, and who will not believe that
the constant use of the brush will make
their hair soft and glossy without them
and that healthy system will supply
oil enough if the head is kept clean
There may be those, too, who have ar
unnatural dryness of scalp and harshnes;
of hair. A mixture of half an ounce
of carbonate of ammonia in pint o.
sweet oil, will remedy this. When the
hair is falling out, the following is the
best dressing in use: Mix pint of al
cohol in a pint of rosewater, fluid ounce
of vaseline and an ounce of pure quin
inc in powder and two scruples of tartar
cmetic, and apply as wash every day
until the hair stora falling. Avoid al
nostrums, especially such as contain
cantharides, which are positively dan
gerous.
The hair being nicely brushed and il
order, the next thing is to put it up il
the most becoming fashion. To do this
it is necessary to study ones face anc
adapt the prevailing style to it as far a
possible. If the face Is short the hal
should be rolled back from the forehead
and dressed high on top and in the back
A long face, on the contrary, is shortene'
by arranging the hair in fat bandeaux
| Almost any style is becoming to the for
tunate possessor of an oval face. Tn
simplest style of hairdressing suits
l classic-shaped head with straight nos
l and regular features, while piquan
+, face and retrouSse nose calls for profu
s sion of curles, braids and frizzes.
, Do not tie the hair tightly; frizz
! on loops of elastic cord, winding it i
t and out as on hair-pin; and in curtin
t it with hot irons wind thin paper owe
q the tongs that they may not touch th
l hair. Crepes and rats of all kinds az
l injurious and uncomfortable, and irritat
d the scalp.
}. THE NEW STYLE OF GIRLs.-A write
: in the Newark On. J.) Advertiser argue
d that delicacy, tenderness, the fragile an