Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-15
Beautiful Hair.

% How do you keep your little bow.
hair such a beautiful golden shade?''
asked a reporter Of fashionable New
York lady.
why, that is the natural color"
said the lady. somewhat indiOnantIy.
ms she twined a long golden curl over
her finger.
But doesn't his hair grow darker as
he grows older?' asked the reporter.
I" have heard that some mothers can
keep that bright gold in their children's
hair ali the time.
Yes" assented the lady. "that is
so. kept the color in my title girls
hair until she was fifteen. and then she
had enough vanity to take care Of II
herself"
&" How did you do it?" asked the re-
porter.
Her hair was very fine and long
when she was six wears old, but il be-
gan to turn dark; SO every other day
washed IL in soda and common SOAP.
and when il was dry brushed il thor
oughly and curled it. Once "A week I
rubbed the scalp with raw egg"
a" Doesn't wa hing the hair so much
make it dry?''
Yes, il YOU do not brush ii thor
oughly, and then it is the best thing for
- Your children have very beautiful
hair said the reporter to n lady who
sat IN her drawing-room with Il half
dozen children playing about her. All
of them but two Lad light yellow or
golden hair. with bangs and curls.
- es. she replied. Those two
little children with short hair are NV
sisters. | wouldn't have a child about
me unless it had pretty hair: but my
sister thinks differently. Teddy, the
boy, .ins sted 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 II have her hair cut, to be like
Teddy. My sister says it makes n boy
more manly to rave 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 prettv?''
oh, she replied, "they have a
French bonnie who washes their hair in
saltwater and little potash and puts
il up in curl papers every night. The
hair does not curl naturally, YOU know"
. Isn't the salt water injurious to the
hGir?''
"No. | think not, although have
often heard so; but my children have
heavy hair. and they have had it washed
IN salt water ever since they were
babies"
A lady living on Fifth avenue has a
little girl with large black ewes and
very yellow hair floating over her
shoulders To her vast The reporter
asked her II she did not possess a v,ry
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 ftp" asked
the reporter.
81 wash it in lemon Juice once n week.
and the acid makes it light. NV other
children have all black hair. and l keen
II cropped close To their heads, but
Ethel is the plainest of all of them. so
thought it was well to give her some
spe 'ial Advantage
why don't You have Your boys curls
cut of this warm weather." said the
reporter To n Brooklyn lady.
Cut off my boys beautiful hairi''
she exclaimed. 40. wouldn't do il
for one hundred dollars cash"
But L will have to come of soon.''
said the reporter.
. know it, and il breaks INV heart
To think of it; so don't mention Il To me,
please. ~. y. Cor. Utica Herald.