St. Landry democrat., 1884-02-16
Beautiful Hair.

Beautiful Hair.
"How do you keep your little boys
hair such a beautiful golden shade?"
asked reporter of a fashionable New
York lady.
Why, that is the natural color
said the lady, somewhat Indignantly,
as she twined a long golden curl over
her finger.
sBut doesn't his hair grow darker as
he grows older?" asked the reporter.
:. 1 have heard that some mothers can
keep that bright gold in their children's
hair all the time. :
:. Yes" assented the lady, g that is
SO. I kept the color in my little girls
hair until she was fifteen, and then she
had enough vanity to take care of it
herself.
. How did you do ite" asked the re-
porter.
cher hair was very fine and long
when she was six years old, but it be-
gan to turn dark; SO every other day /
washed it in soda and common soap,
and when it was dry brushed it thor
ouohlv and curled it, Once q week I
rubbed the scalp with raw egg
g Doesn't washing the hair SO much
make it dry?''
Yes, if you do not brush it thor
oughly, and then it is'the best thing for
it. =
g Your children have very beautiful
hair" said the reporter to a lady who
sat in her drawing room with a half
dozen children playing about her. All
of them but two had light yellow or
golden hair, with bangs and curls,
Eyes, she replied. "Those two
little children with short hair are my
sisters. wouldn't have child about
me unless it had pretty hair; but my
sister thinks differently. Teddy, the
boy, insisted on having his hair cut
when he was six, and he had the most
beautiful yellow hair. just like spun
silk; and then Flora, the little girl,
cried to have her hair cut, to be like
Teddy. My sister says it makes a boy
more manly to have short hair, but for
my part don't see any necessity of
being manly at six. +"
How do you keep your children's
hair SO pretty?"
..oh,'' she replied, "they have a
French bonnie who washes their hair in
saltwater and little potash and puts
it up in curl papers every night The
hair does not curl naturally, you know"
{" Isn't the salt water injurious to the
hair?''
ssNo, / think not, although l have
often heard so; but my children have
heavy hair, and they have had it washed
in salt water ever since they were
| babies y
A lady living on Fifth avenue has a
little girl with large black eyes and
very yellow hair floating over her
shoulders to her waist The reporter
asked her if she did not possess a very
unusual style of beauty.
.'Oh, no, she replied; but | bleach
her hair. am partial to dark eyes and
fair hair, so keep her hair bleached. !"
"How do you accomplish itP" asked
the reporter.
e'Iwash it in lemon-iuice once a week,
and the acid makes it light. My other
| children have all black hair, and keep
it cropped close to their heads, but
Ethel is the plainest of all of them, so I
thought it was well to give her some
special advantage
"Why don't you have your boys curls
cut off this warm weather. said the
reporter to Brooklyn lady.
'sCut off my boys beautiful hair!'
she exclaimed 90, / wouldn't do it
for one hundred dollars cash.
'sBut it will have to come off soon, "
said the reporter.
Il know it, and it breaks my heart
| to think of it; sodon't mention it to me,
please" N Y. Cor. Utica Herald.