The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-04-12
SllanpO0ing.


WAYS believed TO be quite innocuous is
little lrss ihnn dcodlv Tho whole rni
verse seems to be in lrauuc lo poison
the human race, and we uuconsciousIv
assist this conspiracy bv our mistaken
| efforts to promote our own wall-bcinr.
| The Latest alarm that the doctors have
sounded is in rcUard to "shampooinr. "
| II practice which is now declared to bc
! extremely injurious to the health. and |
especially npt to produce diseases of tho |
| brain and other parts of the hcnd
The verb tto ShamDoom is of unccr |
| tain Oririn. One of our hio dictionarios |
sava that it il the same y; the Hindu
vcrh tS.Aopnunu, the first MEANINGS of |
which are "tO sIurnTc" and s'to DrrSs.n
Are we, thrn, to SuDnO$C THAT the Uindu
i lover "ShumpOoS" the hand of his
qlurcd object, and THAT the Hindu hus-
band ".;humn0os" his wife. This is
! uIile unthinEablo. Another derivation
| IS given in Whitwurth's Dictionary
which is at lcl,t as ingenious and de-
cdrdlv more probable. Wmtwortk
thinks that the earliest form OF the word
was "shampoon," instead of "Sham-
Doo," and IN point of fact "shamDoonn
is still in use nmonr rural barbcrs.
"Shamuoonn the learned lcxicorrnphcr
further suDposr1 70 be CLOSELY related
TO "lamDO0n.n and 10 hnvo the Oririnal
meaning Of an attack on TIE head of the
person "ShamnOOncd " These snccu
iationa, in spite Of their intcrcstinm
| character, arc at best only SDcruIatiDnS
and VIC can not feel any Certainty ~ 10
| the real 0ri~in of the ycrl, "tS sham.
poo"
The process has always been regarded
a1 n particularly wholesome one. Il
was supposed that it strcug,Ir Irurd the
places, and removed and prevented
'r'"'c''NS, p"''"t' nc o@>n@ Iho sell
49, P"I' W '''I ''Hon ~ c'''p'i"% MN MN
~ 'I io'' wv ~" naN n''"' ""> H"i'ot'h"uy
uI'''l'' I We "c W." ,'''"''i''" ch"'' WIN
e,,I, hnn,,n,;,,,. I ,i; Ivy
INV II ,i,n,, tLr ,r,,,,,,,h 'f "'
nr;jurcs nrnrai,, L,iI,o'. ''1t' II, ,i, ,''i.'
rns tnr scajn sn iho, II Insno i,s ,,itoI;t,.
and, becoming rs impcrviuus to moist
UrC rs india rubber, induces diseases of
the bones Of the skull. Furthermore,
''ShampOoing causes deafness, and in
many cases leads to inflammation Of the
eyes. Its worst effect, however. is in
sanity. The percentage of men who
become insane after course Of repeated
and regular "Shamuuoing" is enOr-
mousse large, in fact, that the exact
percentage is not mentioned out Of re-
gard to the feelings of the public. The
average life of the man who is sham
poOCd once a week i only three years,
and the last two Years OF his life are
usually spent in Il maniac's cell, where
his blindness and deafness arc rather an
f,,'' t|lr,'Ii''Sc 10 num- H'n?' t'l'y save MN
nn,I ,an,'' .''" ''l'I'r',', ~, N'S,I n" SOUNDS
''1ri,i''' !Thi' - ,''t im,,'i'L H>S ' ;,liF,
r, '' '.'''t''i" I ,,t''.iiiG'iC Oh
stniis,iS ro,,,r",rrl "I ''r, n', ~ ~ - oy
"N"'rH,,y lo.
t I'ti I f''I,V' w. ',,' ~" YOU'D. M: PiirT
rn.,l, 'T'Vur w. H''"" '!I' ',Ti"l
nnnmi, rb., ,y, nrn },,' }r"'Tr,,, '"U,,r,' ..ha,
poo"d" are afflicted with deafness,
blindness, bailn",3, diseases Of the
nv th", '''' ',niii;', n.,.rN''' ny i"'ip"
drnc, ,.,,t f ,.. 80, ~, ',''i r'l'
!,