The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-25
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spot over the temple or brow where the
hair is beginning to grow thin.
My hair is just coming out by the
handfuls. :" she says. what in the world
shall l do for it, Then each best friend
starts in to tell her just what she should
do. and between a multiplicity of advice
she is SO confused that she knows not
which to choose.
The falling out of the hair is usually
the result of a low condition of body
or of some trouble with the scalp when
1t occurs to young people. In fact, there
is no reason for thin hair even in old
age, except that with old age general de-
bility usually goes. Vigorous health is
always accompanied with a vigorous
growth of hair, and when a woman finds
her hair falling out for apparently no
reason at all she might be pretty sure
that she needs a little toning up of her
system. The wlsest thing she can do is
to go to a specialist and give her head
into her care. But this takes money, as
the cure cannot be affected in a few
days. and the continued attention of a
care-taker would incur the expenditure
of a small sum of money. IT'S true, such
a sum would not be wasted, but all of
us have not money to spend in that way.
Home treatment. then. must be resorted
to-and here is a hint.
Three sisters in this city are noted
for the luxuriance and beauty of their
hair. They are working girls. and no
outside care is given to their hair. They
say that any woman can cultivate a
beautiful head Of hair by giving regular
attention to the scalp and the hair roots.
Once every week these sisters act as
maids for each other. Every inch of
scalp is gone over with the teeth of the
comb, and from the roots of the hair
every piece of dandruff is loosened away.
This frees the roots of the hair and
freshens up the oil glands which are
there. making the oil flow more freely
into the hair. After this loosening pro-
cess the hair is brushed and brushed un-
til not a speck of dandruff remains in its
meshes. and the scalp is in a most de-
lightful glow. These girls declare that
they owe the length and glcssiaess OF
their hair to this treatment. which was
started by their mother when they were
little maids in pinafores. Once a month
each head is washed clear of oiliness.
The constant brushing makes the secre-
ton of oil profuse. A little borax is
dropped in a basin of warm water and
with the aid of the slightest touch of
pure CASTLE soap the hair and scalp are
thoroughly iathered. then washed. 1t is
rinsed in a basin of plain tepid water.
Two or three rinsings are necessary,
after which the hair IL dried by a brisk
tanning. Raise it from the scalp bit by
bit with the left hand. while with a fan
welded briskly in the right hand, a
current of wind is made, which is strong
enough to dry moisture.
After washing and drying it is a very
unusual scalp that does not need some
external help in the matter of oil A
shampoo is liable to cave the scalp rather
dry, and for this reason after a thorough
washing one should take a little vaseline-
just a very little On the edge of the fn-
ger-and rub it carefully into the scalp.
Then brush the hair until 1t lies smooth
and glossy on the head.
Singeing the hair has been much in
vogue-especially with bangs" it is
thought to be more successful than the
usual hair cut. The singing is thought
to strengthen the hair and promote its
growth
Remember that simple, natural treat
ment is always the best. Tonics and
washes should always be avoided, ex-
cept, of course. those used by specialists.
to whom the care of the hair is given. A
clean scalp. unclotted oil glands, daily
brushing and constant-not spaslnodie-
care will accomplish wonders with a
very ordinary head of hair.
The rest cure during Lent Is fashion
able. But 1t is also inyigorating, and in
most cases needful.
When the p%enitential days are come
there are more than society women who
would Ike to go into a rest cure for
these forty days. There are teachers
whose nerves are ready to snap with
strain: preachers who have wrestled with
the flesh ard the devil as well as the
church; journalists, stenographers and
a host of others to whom this rest cure
would mean a glimpse of Paradise.
The word sanitarium has for many
fatigued brains a magic that few words
possess.
Unfortunately, however. IT is not this
class of people who can take advantage
OF SO much luxury, for. you know. that
to be sick-and sick comfortably-takes
money.
That society women lave need Of these
sanitar.ums there is little question. The
person who refers to this set of modish
women Of today as the leisure class
argues himself ignorant. If one could
get, a glimpse of the book which keeps
a record of the duties of a leader of So
ciety, one would quickly be deceived as
to the word leisure. And these duties
are not all social by any means. The
list Of p~atronesses of PHILANTHROPY and
charity in this city read like the Assem-
bly, list.
What do people get in a sanitarium? ..
l ask a woman who went to one last
Lent to rest.
In these places" she said, 1.-THE en-
desvor Is made frequently to cure by
outside treatment rather than bv the
wholesale taking of medicine. In this
line of treatment there is nothing that is
more invigorating than the salt rub. The
patient is taken into a small bath room.
The attendant sprays him with warm
water, then takes handfuls of moist salt.
with which he scrubs the skin, beginning
with the chest going to the back, then
to the arms and hands, and so on down
to the feet. BY thai time the patient is
the hue OF aSboiled lobster.
ssThe attendant next turns on the
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