The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-06-27
BAD FOR BLONDES.
why Girls with Golden Tresses ShOult
Avoid Natural Gas.

WHY Girls with Golden Tresses ShOuld
Avoid Natural Gas.
Natural gas has made enemies among
ladies. Blonde hair has had much to
do with it. When burning gas is in
troduced into the same apartment with
blonde hair, and allowed to remain
there, the peculiar action of the one
upon the other will develop. Some
ladies are not attached to their hair;
this is unnatural. Most of the fair sex
glory in their hair, this nis natural.
But, whether natural or not, in either
case the hair of golden hue always suf-
fers from association with natural gas.
Notwithstanding this effect, there is
an affinity which draws the two to-
gether, and blonde hair can not escape
the influence of its ardent plague when
the two come into intimate relations.
The effect is imperceptible at first, and
it is only after certain period OF close
association that the pernicious and
utterly demoralizing influence upon
blonde hair is apparent and the hitherto
unknown character of the deceptive
gas is discovered.
The insidious influence seems to be
exertive at first contact of gas with
blonde hair, although not Immediately
noticeable upon the latter, and lays
hold of every fiber of its nature,
growing more powerful and assertive,
until the victim imperceptibly gives
way and the work of ruin has so far
progressed that any effort to free blonde
hair is futile, and the end is accom-
plished in the utterly blackened char
acter of the beautiful victim.
To be more specific, the vapor, inn
perceptible to the naked eye, generated
by the gas attacks the golden tresses,
whether wig or in a state of luxuriant
growth, and gradually darkens the hue
of blonde hair as long as the influence
continues. The vapor is ammonia,
which can be seen on the glass in a
room where it rises. It combines with
the sulphur in the hair chemically,
which produces a sulpheret of am.
monia. Where the chemical action is
strong enough the hair would become
black. This is plausible.
A Penn avenue physician, in speak
ing of some of the effects of heat from
natural gas, said:
s'The use of natural gas has been {
general topic of complaint with large
number of my patients. I am not pre-
pared to say that deafness is on the in
crease. but natural gas as it is nov
used in dwellings has a decided ten
dency in that direction. The grea
trouble is this: The gas is turned OF
, to such an extent that IL very higl
temperature is obtained and main
tanned throughout the day and night
, This at all times is unhealthy. Tn
heat is entirely without moisture, tina
) will naturally dry up the delicat
; membranes, produce a dry catarrha
disease which very materially affect
the ear and throat, producing bot
> hoarseness and deafness.
with coal it is different. There
a certain amount of moisture given OF
in the combustion along with tn
various degrees of heat obtained. {
q course, any heat is dry in the abstrac1
but when combined with steam or an
s moist substance, the effects are very di
e ferent. A number of our patients d.
e clare that the gas has made them dea
r That can only be, as have said, b
i cause the excessive heat dries up th
d membranes in the head. Pittsburg
i Dispatch.