The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-02

N.-THE CKOWNING GLOhh.
care of the Hair Regarding Baidness and
Thin Partings-To Keep he Hair From
Fall ng Secret of Brigh Locks-Things
that Injure the Hair - stimulating
Iinctures and Washes Results OF
Negiect-Proper Care OF the Scalp.
"Why do women have such poor hair
nowadays asks an observing man.
"When was young, girls used to have
hair they could sit down on, and so thick
they hardly knew what TO 40 with IL.
Now few women seem TO have hair TO
cover their heads. The partings are
broad and coarse. the hair thin on the
temples and behind the ears so that 1t Is
unpleasant to look at the back of n
woman's head and see tho comb marks
left In the scant locks. Spanish women
and Creoles have splendid hair. why
can't our Northern women have itY'
The briefest answer Is that southern
women perspire. Tropic warmth pro-
duoes free passage of all the fluid OF the
body, throwing off all eiiete substance,
and procuring full nourisbment OF every
gland and fibre. Consequently we lind
In tropic women finely grained skins,
continually dissolved. renewed and kept
fresh by the delicate vapor which invests
the body. and with this skin hair OF
marS elous length and thickness. Next
To Southern types. the finest complexion
and tints of hair are found in Irish,
Scotch and German women, working III
the fields, where moist atmosphere, coarse
food and sunshine kindly do more tor
beauty than hard conditions can do
against 1t. The geat knot Of bair almost
hiding the back of the head of newly
arrived servant girl will continue to be
the envy of her mistress, who adopts the
modern theory that woman's role In the
world ought TO be purely an ornamental
ons AS soon cs this mendaious flattery
is accepted and lived up TO, il is remark
able TO SEQ how quickly she ceases TO be
ornamental.
Instead of fragrant breath, there is foul
ness; instead Of tpe trim girdia, the
swollen rent; instead of wellset hair,
badness aud burninR-that is, milan
mation-for beauty IL is perfectly true
that woman's Maker intended her to be
lovely Us a blossom. 1t is equally true
that If she devotes intelligent care TO
health and work with feryor and con-
science, beauty Will take care OF itself.
But to answer the question about causes
of poor hair, tho first and great reason Is
that woEen do not keep their heads
clean Often they are too busy with
housekeeping and Children to give their
hair the weekly shampooing and nightly
brushing il needs Still oftener they are
negli gent, or do not know that on strict
cloanliuess of the scalp depends their best
chance of having good hair at thirty
five. Housework should be done with a
muslin cap or towel folded To cover the
hair to the roots House dust, which is
mainly dead animal matter thrown off
by clothing and beds, Is deadly To lungs
and hair Housemaid's consumption
Is generally due 70 breathing dust and
n =. l.sr. ha I.,y
of such dust which collects at the roots
OF the hair kills it and causes most Of
the falling out of which matrons COM
plain before forty. When women com
rehend the baleful influence of dust on
the health. hair and complexion they Will
Danish carpets upholstering and unwash-
able draperies at once and forever as the
great re eeptacles and absorbents of dust
When curtains and carpets or large mats
are used, the air constantly receives
floating dust ut each movement, not
much, IL is true, in carefully kept
houses, but quite enough, as IL gathers
on the scalp. week after week, To form
with tho natural oil and sweat thin
malignant crust, In which the root of the
hair slowly decays. As most women
wash their heads not oftener than once In
six months the effect is best lett indeii-
nite scalp irritatiOns are not un
known, causing months and years of
trouble. But oftenor the skin of the
head, ologged and loaded with dead scales
OF matter, loses its functions and the
hair drops out. Doctors talk of innerva-
tion OF the scalp, and atrophy but IL is
not considered their place to say that the
cause OF inDervation, eczema and paraly-
sis of the skin, Is want of needed cleaDli-
ness. Think what state the face would
be- in IL IL were washed only once In six
weeks or longer, and imagine the condi-
Al. A L.. Il n
glands and its hairy growth To detain the
abounding dust. The wonder is not
that Ieople lose their hair but that they
have any 90 lose. The cause of much bald
ness and thinning of the h ir Is the cholx.
ing of the bulbs by neglect. The next
potent eau ses are dry, oyerheated air of
rooms which destroys the vitality OF every.
thing In reach, withers bloom, draws the
skin into wrinkles and dries the hair by
the roots. The second is, nervous dys-
pepsia, which denies nutrition to the
entire system. including the hair. Want
Of care and cleanliness. dry heat and in
digestion nre the causes OF poor hair.
Wearing hats or bonuets frequently or
long at time is an unsuspected cause of
grayness and falling locks. Custom
should be amended TO allow women TO
remove bonnots wherever possible on long
journeys I'm heated oncert-rooms,
theaters ana public galleries. Tho
library headache, familiar to
women who spend much time In
public libraries with their bonnets on, is
specially destructive To the hair as well
n the nerves. The unnecessary eat and
pressure ON tho brain while reading Is
most mischiovous. Women In class rooms
and reading rooms, II there for only half
an hour, should lay aside thoir head gear.
Tho harm done by going about with a
bonuet on, shopping or visiting. is the
cause OF much loss of hair which the owner
Is unable to account for.