The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-24
THE HAIR WE ALL WEAR.
Some POINTS Not Generally known
About Its Growth sad Cure.
From the WASHINGTON Star

From the Washington Star.
"You may not be aware that the lair OF a
human being. like the nails, is simply
nodifca ton of the scarf-skin or eHdermis."
said noted medical authority % Star
reporter. ''Such, however, il the case.
every one is interested in tie hair as a
Dhysical adornmeut, and 1t ought not to be
uninteresting to learn just how it grows.
1.-THE root OF each individual hair is
nlsnted in a little sac in thsskin-the latter
shaped like a longish vas, with narrow
neck and flaring slightly It the rim. From
this vase the hair grows as flower does
cut of a flower pot. Tn vase is composed
of an inner aud outer coat, and at the very
bottom of it is the germor seed Of the hair.
In TACT. the seed is imtedded in the bottom
.tTbe germ itself is Enclosed and clasped
Nv what is called the bulb Of the hair.
from the bulb which is pear-shaped. with
The big end upward, rises the root of the
hair. from which sprouts the stalk. One
hundred thousand d such stalks on your
1aod or mine make fair average scalp
lowering. In other words, the average per-
,on has about that many hairs on his or her
lead.
THE ROOTS OF THE HAIR.
$50 each hair you see, is like a plant
,rowing from and depending for sustenance
mon a root. II hair grows where you do
not desire 1t you jerk 1t out OF the socket,
and it seems mysterious to you that another
7air should invariably appear in its place.
indeed. it seems as if it rather agreed with
he health of a hair to be pulled out from
lime to time.
1.-THE reason for this is very simple. Pull
mt q healthy hair, and upon viewing it
lnder a microscope you will find that the
over extremity is gelatinous lump. some
What ragged. This is the root, with por-
ion of the inner coat of the vase above
mentioned clinging to it. IL the root is
AIKEN out why does the plant grow again?
Simply because the germ or seed at the bot
tom of the vase remains undisturbed and
Immediately proceeds to produce a new
root and hair stalk. There is only one way
of DESTROYING hair that science has thus
far discovered, namely, to introduce an
electric needle into the vase. thrust it down
20 the bottom and kill the germ. The OPP
ration is costly ono to have properly
performed but " hat woman who could af-
ord the expense will hesitate at it to get rid
otamustache or Objectionable hairs upon
Ter armsl Why, money is no object what
ever in such case.
WHY THE HAIR COMES OUT.
"Women often find that their hair comes
ont readily in the process of combing, and
vet they do not grow bald. This is because
he hairs that so easily drop out of the
lcalp have lost vitality, perhaps because the
,oots have been called upon to support too
ong stems. Hence the roots shrlvel and
he hairs slip out Of their vases. But the
yerms remain to reproduce new hairs, aud
70 badness does not result. But if atrophy
Or lack of nourishment attacks the very
germs of the hairs themselves they die, and
the victim of the complaint, which is apt
to be more or less hereditary, becomes
bald. For such badness quacks advertise
remedies but you can see for yourself how
impossible it is that their alleged cures
should accomplish any result. The seeds of
he hairs are dead and can never produce
he plants again.
"In old age the pigment supplied by
nature to the hair is apt to fail, and the
growth loses its color, becoming first gray
and finally white. Sometimes during the
process Of this transformation it assumes
for awhile greenish tint. which is fer
from beautiful, However, there is nothing
handsomer than white hair Far from
making a woman look older, it gives years
dentallY all the lines of her face. The old
man who, to seem young, dyes his beard
black as a shoe brush, makes himself simply
aghastly object.
WHY NEGROES HAIR KINKS.
What makes negroes hair klnk9 That
Is easily explained. The straight hair is
round-cylindrical, l would say; but curly
hair is made so by the fact that its tube is
fatter. Negro hair is flattsned in places
and distorted throughout its length; there
fore it kinks.
The curling tongs. by means of their,
heat contract one side of each hair, and it
consequently curls toward that side. Such
Is the philosophy Of the Instruments opera
tlOn. Necessarily this heat freOuently an
piled injuries the hair, dissipates the oily
matter essential to its health, renders the
pant dry and damages its growth more or
less permanently.
AT the narrowest part of the vase from
WHICH the hair grows one or more oil
glands enter the vase for the purpose of
Keeping the hair oily and health. Some
Times II happens that the oil thus secreted
forms cot in the vase and hardeDs. Ma
lure then tries to get rid of this clot, as of
any other foreign body. and the result is
what is called a ,pimple' There is infiam
nation and either the clot is absorbe or it
EGe1pelled. What is commonly termed
olackhead' Is a small particle of dirt gath
cred on the surface of the oil clot in a hair
Sdc. watch key pressed upon the spot is
HAeIy 10 force out the clot and so prevent a
pinple or the clot may be loosened by the
careful introduction of a needle, and then
squeezed out.
Each hair sac or vase is supplied with
tuSceS, which, being caused to act by Ger
. SlI eruptlons, may occasion rising OF
.uo ndlr' as from fear. 1t is believed now,
LlsSt9nty with the views of many of the
, UsS. medical authorities, that it is entirely
pIsAole That persons hair may be turned
r me within few hours by fear or other
"He, through chemical combined with
capillary action.n