St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-06
THE FEARFUL RESULTS
Or the Use OF Applications for
BIeaching the Hair.
Isl Louis Post-Disnatch

[St. Louis Post-DispatchJ
$50 blonde women are going out of fashion
at last" inquired a Post-Dispatch representa-
tive one VINO, among other things, makes
study of scalp diseases a speciality. ITO
what do You attribute this sudden fallin the
stock of yellow hairl"
well, to various reasons, almost too nu-
merous to particularize. l dare say the first
alarm will leave comparative quiet in the
camp of the Saxon-haired ladies. The say
so OF fashion has a mighty influence, but
blue-eyed, drab-haired ladies will not will
ingly sink back into neutral obscurity."
"But what amount of truth is there in the
statement that chemicals injure those who
use theman
"More, perhaps, than you or they are
aware of, when it comes down to being
serious"
What are the symptoms of the poisonp
They differ, of course, with different tenn
peraments. Some women rapidly lose MEM
ory-fall to recall faces or names, or both.
They lose appetite, and have to resort to
beer or a stimulant; lose sleep, which is
worse than all. They fall victims to in
somnia in its most aggravated forms,
and the last and most dreadful warn
ing is the loss of eyesight: they
become perfectly blind They will attri-
butte all these frightful sufferings to hundred
causes but the right one, and their husbands
are being told all the time that the only
blondine they use is a little soda, common
alkai bar-soap or salts of tartar. But
finally, when almost bald, with red watery
eyes and constantly aching heads, they awake
to a realizing sense of what they are doing
to kill themselves by inches to become a
problematical beauty. All men do not
admire yellow-haired women by any means
For my part, and / think the majority of
men think with with me, woman is only
worthy of admiration when just as nature
left her, without tampering with at ALL no
matter what her complexion. Besides it is
questionable taste in ladies of correct life and
standing, since they follow the mad pranks
of those who, lost to all decency, would do
anything to attract attention. They started
bangs, and straightway all women cut off
their front hair"
"Weil, you make this out serious matter,
to be sure. Have you enumerated all the
dread resultsl"
mo; there rs one l have been 10th to speak
of-lunacyl Yes, horrible as it may sound
to you, the asylums are filing up with incur
able maniacs brought to that pass by using
hair washes and bleaches This begins by
nervous attacks periodically when in an un-
healthy state. Then they begin to have hys-
terics more often; husbands are puzzled to
know how to deal with wife who bursts
into tears at the slightest provocation and
falls right ON the floor or bed. 1t is swift
road to downright, gibbering insanity, for
which science has not yet thought out a
cure-the cause is SO new. see that for a
long time in London and Paris women have
bleached their babies heads, and that this
pernicious trick is being done here. Such
mothers should be deprived of their children
as being unfit custodians of them. The eff
feet will be lot of imbecile young women.
We are a brown-haired nation, and hand
somer than any haxen-haired Morse men or
women ON earth, and our brains should not
be sapped up in trying TO initiate the peas
antry of Bavaria, Austria or Sweden"