Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-15


slightly at the rim. From this vase the hair
grows, as flower does out Of a flower pot.
The vase is composed Of an inner and outer
coat, and at the very bottom of it is the germ
or seed of the hair In fact, the seed is i'm
bedded in the bottom of the vase.
The germ itself is inclosed and clasped by
what is called the bulb of the hair. From
the bulb which is pear shaped with the big
end upward, rises the root o. the hair, from
which sprouts tho stalk. One hundred thou
sand of such stalks on your head or mine make
fair average scalp covering. In other words,
the average person has about that many hairs
on his or her head.
THE ROOTS OF THE HAIR.
$50 each hair, you see, is like a plant grow
ing from and depending for sustensnce upon a
root If hair grows where You do not desire
it you jerk it out of the socket, and it seems
mysterious to you that another hair should in
variably appear in its place. Indeed. it seems
as if il rather agreed with the health of a hair
to be pulled out from time TO time.
The reason for this is very simple. Pull out
healthy hair, and upon viewing ii under a
microscope you will find that the lower ex-
tremity Is a gelatinous lump, somewhat ragged
This is the root with a portion of the inner coat
OF the vase above mentioned clinglng to it. II
the root is taken out why does the plant grow
agaln9 Simply because the germ or seed at
the bottom of tho vase remains undisturbed
and Immediately proceeds to produce new
root and hair stalk. There is only one way of
destroying hair that science has thus far dis
covered namely, to introduce an electric needle
INTO the vase, thrust ii down to the bottom and
kill the germ. The operation is costly one
to have properly performed, but what woman
who can afford the expense will hesitate at 1t
to get rid OF mustache or Objectionable hairs
upon her arms? Why, money ID no object what
ever in such a case.
WHY THE HAIR COMES OUT.
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readily in the process of combing. and yet they
do not grow bald. This is because the hairs
that so easily drop out Of the scalp have lost
vitality. perhaps because the roots have been
called upon to support too long stems. Hence
the roots shriyel and the hairs slip out of their
vases. But the germs remain, to reproduce
new hairs, and so 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
are dead and can never produce the plants
again.
I'm old age the pigment supplied by nature
to the hair is apt to fail, and the growth loses
Sometimes during the process of this trans
formation it assumes for a while a greenish
tint, which is far from beautiful However
there is nothing handsomer than white hair
Far from making a woman look older, it gives
years of youth to her appearance softening in
cidentally all the lines Of her face. The old
'man who, to seem young. dyes his beard black
as a shoe brush makes himself simply CHASTITY
object.
WHY NEGRo's HAIR KINKS.
"What makes a negro's hair kink? That is
easily explained The straight hair is round =
cylindrical. would say; but curly hair is made
so by the fact that Its tube is iatter. Negro
hair is fattened in places and distorted through
out its length; therefore it kinks.
1.-The curling tongs, by means OF their heat,
contract one side of each hair, and il conse-
quently curls toward that side. Such is the
philosophy of the instruments operation. Nee
essarily this heat frequently applied Injuries
the hair, dissipates the oily matter essential to
its health, renders the plant dry and damages
its growth more or less permanently.
eat 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 healthy. Sometimes it happens
that the oil thus secreted forms a clot in the
vase and hardens Nature then tries to get
rid of this clot, as of any other foreign body
and the result is what is called 'pimple'
There is inflammation and either the clot is
absorbed or it is expelled What is commonly
termed a 'blackhead' is a small particle of dirt
gathered on the surface of the oil clot in a
hair sac. watch key pressed upon the spot
is likely to force out the clot and SO prevent a
pimple or the clot may be loosened by the
careful introduction of q needle and then
squeezed out.
Each hair sac or vase is supplied with mus
Giles, which, being caused to act by certain
eruptions, may occasion a rising of the hair
as from fear. 1t is believed now, consistently
with the views Of many of the best medical
authorities that it is entirely possible that
persons hair may be turned white within few
hours by fear or otherwise through chemical
combined with capillary action"
He Knew His Rights.
From the Chicago Tribune
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