The Monitor., 1888-12-07
BRUSHING THE HAIR.

The hair must he brushed and brushed
and brushed again. This is the beginning
and the end Of the admonition.
Not for you, few gills, who have maids
who smooth your hair night and morning.
But for you, many girls;good sweet, whole
some, everyday girls, who are responsible
for your own goodness and sweetness and
wholesomeness and who wrestle with your
own straight or curly tresses.
Brush it, So shall your hair be clean
and silky No amount of combing will
make it either.
Look well to your brush. No wire
brush no heavy silver-backed brush, but
even, well-chosen bristles.
Abundant hair Is an ornament, but it is
a responsibility. A woman's crown of
glory is apt to be very dirty diadem.
There is no dust catcher equal to great
shock of hair. Every flying particle lodges
in the flowing tresses that the poets rave
over, and Sits down from silken thread to
silken thread, whether the locks be brown
or gold.
If your hair is dull in color, wiry in text
ure and will not catch the FURNISHED CLEAN
of the last rhyme yoa read. brush it. Ifit
is losing the gloss it had when you were
younger, if it looks old and sicbly, brush
it. If you hair is fretful and peevish,
brush it TIL it smiles and behaves with
docility under the comb again.
Wash it first. Beat an egg into foam,
rub it we'll into the roots, thoroughly but
gently, then rinse it in lukewarm water.
Keep small brush for the purpose--a nail
brush or a tooth brush will answer-and
part your hair, strand by strand, until you
have cleansed the scalp well over. IF your
hair is moist by nature, dissolve little
borax and glycerine in the rinse water; if
it is harsh and dry, use tie glycerine only,
lest the head after SO much manipulation
feels uneasy and sore. Find an airy place
in the sun if the day be not too warm
and brush the wet hair dry. Brush it ca
ressingly with soft brush till the moist
ure is nearly expelled Then stop petting
il and brush briskly with stiff brush till
it is satiny and dry.
Did it ever occur to you that the scalp
wants exercise and gets very little? The
hair fades, sometimes turns white, grows
rough and disobedient because it is not fed.
Direct fuller flow blood to the hair folli-
cles and they will eat and grow young.
At bedtime unfasten yoar hair and brush
it. Brush it half an hour every evening
for month. After that brush it fifteen
minutes nightly, ten minutes if you have
no more time. Loosen it completely, rub
it with your fingers, rubbing and brushing
alternately, using, as before, first a soft,
soothing brush, then vigorous, stiff one.
Brush it to the tips of the longest strands.
Gather it loosely for the night allowing
full ventilation, and in the morning brush
it fifteen minutes at first, afterward ten
minutes, devotedly every day.
If your hair is thin and threatens to fall,
or the parting is grow ing inconveniently
wide, let it down at night and massage the
scalp. Rub it, gather the loose skin be-
tween the fingers, pinch it a little, invent
exercise for it with the tips of the fingers.
Give it some work to do every day and
brush it. Part it on the side at night and
give the days parting a rest. No treat
ment of this sort produces sudden or spec
tacnlar results, but if there is no disease
Of the hair follicles and the gene,al health
iS o0Od n will often vrorly uondarS in
twelvemonth.