Connecticut western news., 1877-03-30
DOMESTIC.

BEAUTIFUL HAIR-How TO GET AND RETAIN IT.-To get and retain beautiful hair, you must attend to daily brushing it, occasionally washing it, and periodi- cally trimming it, 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 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 hair-dressers, indeed, know very much about it. The proper time for the opera tion, then, is the morning, just after you have come out of your bath, pro- vided you have not wetted the hair. Two kinds of brushes ought to be found on every lady's toilette-table, a hard and soft. The former is first to be used, and used well, but not too roughly; it moves all dust, and acts like tonic on the roots of the hair, stimulating the whole capillary system to healthy action. Afterward use the soft brush-this is to give the gloss from which the morning sunshine will presently glint and gleam with a 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, natures own patent pomade, which the soft brush does but spread. Secondly, 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 cleansing fluids, and use rain water filtered. The yolks of two new-laid eggs are much to be preferred to soap; they make a beauti- full father, 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 de- stroyed, which an alkali never fails to do. The first water must not be very hot, only just acarna, and the last per- fectly cold. Dry with soft towels-but do not rub till the skin is tender-and afterward brush. Be very careful al- ways to have your brushes and combs perfectly clean and free from grease, and place other brushes on the table for friends of yours who happen to be Macassarites.
 | OluGIllS OllO 1ldI1 IcS UAdl1y IOG OIIly prevents it from splitting at the ends, but it renders each individual hair more healthy, less attenuated-if may ap- ply the term to hair-and, moreover, keeps up the growing process, which otherwise might be blunted or checked. Singeing the tips of the hair has also a beneficial effect.
 It will be seen that I 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 na- ture and over-stimulating qualities they often cause the hair to grow thin and fall off sooner than it otherwise would. Let eoezl 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 it's perfect success is a chemical impossibility. As to hair-re- storers, those that are not simply stain CTS depend upon the action of the light chemically altering and oxidizing the application after it has been used. Their incautious use, must add, is fraught with great danger, and trichoSis tttr- furacea (yes, know l am using dread full language, but desperate diseases need desperate cures). and even worse, may be the result. And so, au revoir.- | H0rper'S Bdzdr.