The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-03-08
Care of the Hair

Something particularly good from the
American -AHGiyst:
Brush the hair and again brush it.
This is the beginning and the end of
admonition. Not for you, few girls,
who have maids who smooth your hair
night and morning. But for you, many
girls; good. sweet, wholesome, every
day girls, who are responsible for your
own goodness aud sweetness and whole
someness. 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 Is
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 lying particle
lodges : the fewinPa fresses thai. the.
poets rave over .1.-ssai sl=---s0"n from
silken thread to silken thread, whether
the locks be brown or gold.
If your hair is dull in color, why in
texture and will not catch the FURNISHED
CLEAN of the last rhyme you read, brush
it. If it is losing the gloss it had when
you were younger, if it looks old and
sickly, brush it. If you hair is fretful
and peeyish, brush it till it smiles and
behaves with docility under the comb
again.
Wash it first. Beat an egg into foam,
rub it well into the roots, thoroughly,
but gently, then rinse it in lukewarm
water. Keep small brush for the pur-
pose nail brush or 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, dis
solve a little borax and glycerine in the
rinse water; if it is harsh and dry, use
glycerine only, lest the head, after so
much manipulation. feel uneasy or sore.
Find an airy place-in the sun, if the
| dav is not too warm-and brush the wet
hair dry. Brush it caresslngly, with a
soft brush till the moisture is nearly ex-
PEELED Then stop petting it and brush
| quickly with q stiff brush till it is satiny
and dry.
Did it ever occur to you that the scalp
/ wants cNeTClSe anu BGtS very lItttC4 AO
hair fades, sometimes turns white, grows
rough and disobedient, because it is not
fed. Direct a fuller flow of blood to the
hair follicles, and they will eat and gov
young.
At bedtime unfasten your 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 ana
brushing alternately, using, as before
first a soft, soothing brush, then vlgof-
GUS stiff one. Brush it to the tips OF the
longest threads. Gather it very loosely
for the night allowing full ventilation,
and in the morning brush it fifteen MN
utes at first afterward ten minutes, de-
yotedly every day.
If your hair is thin and Threatens to
fall, or the parting is growing lncon-
veniently wide, let j. down at night and
massage the -calp. Rub it, gather the
is,sg skin between the fingers, pinch it
a little. invert exercise for it with the
fins 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 q rest. Brush it, brush 1t,
brush it,