The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-04
OVERSEE FEET OF HAIR
Mrs. D. ]. Davis Has the Longest
Hair in the World.
IT SWEEPS THE GROUND
All the Family Have Wonderful
Tresses, and Her Three-Year-
Old Niece Has a twenty
One Inch Braid.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Mrs. ID. j. Davisof San Francisco,
Cal, has the longest hair in the world.
1t clusters in a great mass about her
head, and though she is a tall woman,
being five feet nine inches in height,
her long tresses when uncoiled sweep
upon the ground for nearly foot. Her
hair is just six feet and eight inches in
length. ~4
Mrs. Davis comes of a family re-
markedly alike for their height and the
length of their hair Though Mrs. Da-
Wis is five feet and nine inches in height
she is shorter by nearly an inch than
either of her three sisters. But while
they have the advantage in height they
cannot equal her in the matter of hair,
Notwithstanding that all three have
curls over a yard and half long. Not
the least remarkable part of this won
derful hirsute development is that,
while all three of Mrs. Davis sisters
had long hair from early childhood,
the young lady herself could never in
duce her tresses to fall below her
shoulders, so that II is only within the
past years that they have developed
such a tendency to eclipse Paderewskfs
shaggy name.
But il is not surprising that Mrs.
Davis and her sisters should have such
a Growing glory to boast of, for the
mother of this interesting family had
hair that dangled five feet from the
crown of the head. Mrs. Davis seems
to have lived all her life among long
haired people, for her sister-in-law,
with whom she now resides at the
Union hotel in the Potrero, has over
four feet of hair, and her niece, a lit
tie girl scarcely 3 years old, has
braid q inches in length, which she
succeeds daily in tangling badly, and
for which she as regularly does pen
ance when the comb is applied. .--gr,
II never brush my hair" said Mrs.
Davis as she removed those long coral
pins that held great coils in place
about her head so that her hair might
be measured, "for the reason that do
not believe it is good for the hair In
fact, / have demonstrated my belief to
my own satisfaction by experimenting.
When a girl l gave very little atten-
ton to my hair and in consequence 1t
did not grow at all Sometimes / felt
very much chagrined to see how much
longer and prettier was the hair of all
three of my sisters, but 1 was some
what careless. When / became a wom-
an 1 suddenly developed a desire to
have long hair like theirs and began to
take the utmost care of what little /
had Every morning, and sometimes
twice a day, / brushed it thoroughly,
but ii did not grow any better. Then l
noticed that the brush, after the daily
application to the hair, even when the
latter had no tendency to fan cut,
would be filled with very fine hairs and
soon | realized that while the brushing
had no effect upon the long hair it eff
fectually killed the new growth and /
decided to stop.
Since then ] have used nothing but
a very coarse comb. Every morning /
go over the hair thoroughly and care
fully, removing every snarl until ii is
as free and flowing as water. Then 1
braid il and coil II into varied coiffeurs
about my head. I never used cosmet-
les on my hair"