The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-03
TEE FEARFUL RESULTS.
OF the Use of Applications for
Bleaching the Hair.

90 oionae women are going out OF
fashion at last?" inquired q Posts
Dispatch representative of one who,
among other things, makes q study
of scalp disease a specially. ITO
what do you attribute this sudden fall
in the stock Of yellow hair?'
well, to various reasons, almost
too numerous to particularizs. ldare
say the first alarm will leave com,
parative quiet in the camp of the
saxon-haired ladies. The sayso of
fashion has a mighty influence. b /
blue eyed, drab-haired ladies will not
willingly sink back into neutral OBJ
scurity."
"But what amount of truth ia there
in the statement that chemicals iniure
those who use themr
More. psrhaps, than you or they
are aware OF, when it comes down to
being serious"
WHAT are the symptoms of the
poison?"
They differ. OF course, with TEN.
peraments. Some women rapidly
lose memory-fail to recall faces or
names, or both. They lose appetite,
and have to resort to bear or a stimu-
liant; lose sleep, which is worse than
all. They fall victims to insomnia in
its most aggravated forms, and the
last and most dreadful warning is the
loss OF eyesigbt; they become per-
tecuy blind. They will attribute all
these frightful sufferings to hundred
causes but the right enc, and their
husbands are being told all the time
that the only blondine they use is q
little soda, common alkali bar-soap
or salts OF tartar. But finally, when
almost bald, with red, Wateiy eyes
and constantly aching heads, they
awake 10 q 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 all means
For my part, and I think the majority
OF men think with me, woman is
only worthy of admiration when lust
as nature left her, without tampering
vii n at al, no matter what her COM
plexion. Besides, it is questionable
taste in ladies of correct life and
standing, since they follow the mad
pranks of those who, lost to Bill
decency, would dc anything to attract
attention. They started bangs, and
strait htway all women cut of their
front hair.
"Well, you make this out serioue
matter, to be sure. Have you enu-
muerated all the dread results?'
mo; there ia one I have been 10th
to speak of-lunacyl Yes, horrible
as it may sound to you, asylums are
filling up with incurable maniscs
brought to that pass by using hair
washes and bleaches. This begins
by nervous attacks periodically when
in an unheslthy state. Then they
begin to have Mysteries more often;
husbands are puzzled to know how to
deal with wife who bursts into tears
at the slightest provocahon and falls
right on the fo0r or bed. tits swift
read to downright, gibbering insanity
for which science has not yet th .ught
out oure-the cause ia 30 new. l
see that for long time in London
and Paris women have bleached their
babies heads, and thai this pernici-
Gus trick is being done here. Such
mothers should be deprived of their
children as being unfit custodians Of
thera. The effect will be lot of i'm
beetle young women. We are q
brown-haired nation, and haHdsomer
than any fiaxenshaired Morse men or
women on earth, and our brains
should not be Slapped up in trying to
initiate the peasantry OF Bavaria,
Austria or Sweden"