Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-03
THE HAIR.


Ht. Growth, ssrvnEth ana Calor- Peculiar
thnract-rtsuss % People with DiRerrnt
a'olorcd IRtr, Etc.
THE Detroit frce Press publishes the
following extract from book on The
Hair, its Growth, Care and treatment"
recently published by medical man in
that city:
The people of Paris and London alone
use twenty car loads OF other peoples
hair. Convents usually furnish large
amounts for the French Spanish and
italian markets, and II Is known 20 the
trade as '''chmch hair The prices OF
hair range from five dollars 10 twenty
cents head, though the finest Of golden
hair will bring two dollars nm ounce,
white hair i've dollars an ounce In
such cases head Of hair Is worth from
twenty-five 10 fifty dollars. Some ma
tionalities have y peculiar odor in their
hair; the Chinese hair has a musky
smell, and the odor Of yiolets has been
detected in one or two instances The
dealers detect the quality mainly by the
touch, can tell whether its color is dyed
or bleachcd, and whether il comes from
the living or the dead, As rule hair
growers are degraded race Whose
riches consist not in their locks, but in
their own flecces, which they never pin
up or comb. but wear in eloseV-iitting
caps.
The enormous strength of the hair is
hardly appreciabe. A healthy single
hair win support four ounces. 4 single
head of hair ip an audience of 200 peo-
pie win support the entire audience;
and the hair Of all the people in Detroit
wonld support load which would re-
Vuire 1900 locomotives to draw, and
the hairs Of tho people of the globe
would support planet against the
gravity OF the earth. Samsou's hair
was eyidebtly q fitting emblem of his
strength.
The shape Of the hair, looked at as
one would look at the end Of stick of
candy, Is an oval in the European and
light haired races, and in the Semitic
races more or less angular. The hair
Of the negro Is elliptical or kidney
shaped II has no central canal. and
will stSltn The Europeans win not;
but, although the negro's hair. as a
whole, seems coarse, perhaps on nc
count Of its curliness, competent oh
server AYERS that the individual hairs
Of this race are finer than the hairs OF
the European. The curl in the negro s
hair Is caused by eject, during thou
sands Of years, Of a hot sun, which has
acted upon it like aperpetual crimping-
iron,
Notwithstanding the smallness of q
single hair, the hair on the heads of the
people Of Detroit would make IL foot
walk ~ inches wide aud 600 miles in
length. In spite of the contrary
opinion, the hair OF men is finer thar
that Of women, whether the coarsos
male hair Is compared with the coar5es
female hair, or the finest male hail
with the finest female hair; the lines
hair being found among civilized Ma
tiOns. The young woman with long
fine golden locks runs her cont
through 40 miles of hair in the morn
ing; and some even have 80 and lO'
miles of it. 1t is literally true that th'
hairs OF the head are numbered and, ol
an average, amount of 10000 10 eael
+ person having full aud luNurian
growth, black-haired persons having
the fewest, ilaxen-haired the most
"Whilst our blondes are so rich j
their wealth q golden tresses, thei
darker-haired sisters are compelled &
be satisfied with fifty, forty-yes, ari'
some red-hared sisters with but thirty
sixA-miles of this covering, which -
Paul says is glory 70 her. While tn
frst has the. more from which TO tic lru
love-knots, Nature has allowed tn
darker4haired ones 10 tie theirs th
stroagthr, Rot. tlSe iilameuts on AM
fIials are much more numerous than o
man, On the Merino sheep therois
saaoombined length OF flament equal I
81 The distance q railroad car, az the rat
OF q milo 4 minute, would traverse
night and day Ia 1900 years,