The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-23
CARE OF THE HAIR.
Course of Treatment That May Give
Beneficial Results.

Beneficial Results.
1t is not necessarily a sign of i'm
cipient badness or premature age when
woman's hair, in the spring of the
year, begins to fall out with amazing
rapidity. This is an alarming mani
festation, but one is moulting, changing
the heavy winter suit for lighter
spring covering, and the quantity and
quality of the new growth depend very
much on the discreet and careful treat
ment given ones head at this critical
juncture. Deluging with more or less
trustworthy tonics and panicky trips to
the hair specialist are not of so much
avail as simple home remedies, and all
along in these days, when the sap is
rising in the trees, sensible women clip
their tresses once in every IL days. They
merely trim the edges, with a pair of
very sharp scissors, and then SINCE the
raw ends over candle flame. This has
exactly the same effect as pruning
hedge. 1t forces fuller growth on the
scalp.
Another word to the wise In the
spring wash your hair at least once
every fortnight and don't wash it before
going to bed, for hair must dry rapidly
and in the light. 1t is not only healthy
to shampoo the head frequently, but
at this time of the year nothing SO stim-
ulates the sprouting strands.
Wash your head in warm bath and
use either CASTLE or sulphur soap. If
you don't care to use a soap, the next
most cleansing process-and invigorat-
ing, tools to beat the yolk of an egg
and pour it over the dry scalp. With
your finger tips rub this in, and then
plunge your head and tresses into the
basin of tepid fluid, dashed with one
teaspoonful of cloudy ammonia or boz
rax. Directly the water grows discol-
ored, fresh bath must be drawn and
basin of the clean fluid used, until the
last one is quite cold and the scalp is
quite free of sticky egg or soap suds.
After wriuging out the bulk of hair a
couple of big Turkish towels, If used hot
from hanging before fire, will all but
completely dry the head.
Hair washed in ammonia, borax. or
even with soap, though left light and
shiny from the effect of the egg. is ant To
duff and fuzz as though every strand
had been separately through hot tongs,
10 allay this little cocoa oil or any
pure grease ought to be rubbed into the
scalp and vigorous brushing nut in
train. Excessive dryness is indeed a
popularity of mnhy American women's
hair, the result of our climate and
rather second-class digestions, and to
correct this steady cocoa oil or grease
treatment ought to be kept up for two
or three months at time, applying a
very little Of the emollient once in six or
seven days and brushing it out in the
length of hair.
1t is absolutely only by regular matu-
final grooming that dandruff can be
kept down and that the gloss and color
OF hair is retained after the vital Juices
OF early youth are ceasing to flow. It
requires two brushes to do this BUSH
ness well; one meant only for the scalp.
and this one must be rubber affair.
1t is new invention, the rubber brush.
Back, handle and bristles are all of rub. |
Der, pliable indeed, but sternly aggres.
sive, for the bristles get right down TO |
hrst principles and stir the dandruff |
from its hitherto inaccessible strong |
holds. Moreover, the rubber brush ia |
delightfully."- clean, for after use every
morning it can be washed under the |
faucet and laid white and dry back on
the dressing table. The second brush
ought to be conventional long,
handled, stout bristled affair, to use for
stroking the length of hair, where the
ruooer one will not go and where the
uaiIy accumulation of dust, lint, straws
and thread Is a matter shocking aud
to dainty woman.
What with this careful brushing and
washing anyone's spring crop of hair
can be induced to come forth in unusual
luxuriance and beauty of quality, but
for the women who have long ignored
the simple clearly precautions for pre-.
serving their hair and are in danger of
having soon to thatch their crowns with
borrowed tresses, more rigid course Of
must be followed. Gin
skinny, fading, splitting hair once a
week and every morning fill basin
with clear cold water and treat the head
70 plunge bath. Dry out quickly and
brush in little oil, ever so little, not
more than a couple of drops per morn
ng. Provided the oil is pure any sort
will do, and for as many hours as pos
'ible wear the hair hanging loose or
'ery lightly done up with tuckias
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