The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-11-04
YOUTHFUL GRAY HAIR.

me tell you" she continued, IF it wasn't
for the enormous sale of hair dyes, ]
actually believe there'd be ten times as
many gray-haired women as we see now.
laugh often over the regular announce.
lnents that women have quit using hair
restorers (Which are usually dyes) and
have decided that gray hair is becoming.
It is my experience, in a pretty extensive
observation, that nine women out of
ten dread gray hair, and fight it's ap-
proach as they would a plague. Gray
hair makes anybody look older, and we
all know it. admit, it is often charm
ing, and softens face wonderfully, but
it adds years, all the same. When you
see fresh-faced, white-haired woman
what do you think? Why, naturally,
what young face that old lady has.
Not one observer in IS reflects that there
is young woman with white hair"
"But there are great many?"
''Oh, dear, yes. I have plenty of
patrons whose hair is gray at IS. The
reason of it is plain enough. Nervous
prostration, overwork, overexcitement,
worry, all those things are prime hair
bleachers. Women now try to learn
everything. And they are crowding into
professions, where they overtax them
olives: There isn't any need Of it, either.
A woman can work every day in the
week, moderately: eat wholesome
luncheon, leave her cares at the down
town office, and grow young on it, as |
do. Nerves are the cause of wrinkles,
mind you, and gray hair, and about
everything that destroys beauty. If
woman discovers that she is getting
gray or hair is falling out, she must use
her hair brush vigorously. The scalp
must be kept healthy and full of blood
by friction. Then She ought to have
tonic, something from the doctor, to put
her system in order, and some local
treatment from her hairdresses.. There
arc plenty of good, reliable hair tonics,
which do not contain particle of col
oring. Hair grows, you know, from
delicate bulbs or roots. It is perfect
nonsense to talk of doing anything for
the hair as long as these are not in an
absolutely healthy state.
''The electric treatment is fine thing.
will. The needle is applied to the roots
of all the light, dry hair. It doesn't
hurt, and I've know it to arrest dozens of
cases of gray hair or badness. No,
women are not becoming bald-I don't
think they will. Usually the cause
which produces badness in man will
make woman's hair gray. I don't
know why. Perhaps nature recognizes
the fact that women must have some
thing to pin their hats to-
"How about working by electric light
or artificial ight?'
'@That won't injure the hair, ordi-
narily. But if the bulb is close enough
to the head to keep the hair heated, it
wilfcause it to fall OUT
"Do' women ever bleach the hair
white, thinking it becoming?''
mo, not here. That's all fabrica-
ton. There is a French process which
will whiten the hair, but it is quite dan
gerous, and likely to produce an incur
able scalp disease. No reputable hair
dealer would sell the stuff without ex-
planning this, and, of course, not many
women care to Try the experiment.
"Oh, well,' said the doctor, lone rea-
son that so many young-faced, gray
haired women are seen is that it is pc
culiarity of some nervous diseases that
they make people look younger. It's q
fact. One of my patients, who is suffer-
ing from nervous prostratiou, appears
ten years younger than she sreallys is.
The face is relaxed, the muscles are not
tense, and the mind is unimpaired. The
least exertion; brings a spark to the
eye and a bright color to the cheeks. At
the same time the hair becomes quite
gray. In fact, the woman is old enough
to have gray hair naturally, but she
doesn't look it. In the main, think
that women, are becoming gray earlier
than they used to, and I think it is
caused by nervous strain" Chicago
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