The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-03

gray-halred women as we see now. I
laugh often over the regular announce
ments that women have quit using ha1r-
restorers (Which are usually dyes and
have declared 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 approach as
they would plague. Gray hair makes
any body look older. and we all know il.
I admit, IL Is often charming, and softens
a face wonderfully, but IL adds years all
the same. When you see fresh-faced
white-haired womsn what do you thinkI
why, naturally. what n young face that
old lady has. Not one observer In twenty
FIVE reflects that there Is young woman
with white hair"
"But there are great many?"
ooh, dear, yes ] have plenty Of patrons
whose hair is gray at twenty-five. The
reason Of Il Is plain enough. Nervous pros
tratlon, overworlS, over-eXcitement, wor-
ry, all those things are prime hair bleach
ers Women now try to learn everything
And they are crowding into professions,
where they overtax themselves. There isn't
any need of it, either. A woman can work
every day in the week, moderately, eat q
wholesome luncheon, leave her cares at the
downtown office, and grow young on 1t,
as / do. Nerves are. the cause Of wrinkles.
mind you, and gray hair, and about every
thing that destroys beauty. If a 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 a tonic, something from the
tonic, to put her system In order, and
some local treatment from her hairdress-
er. There arc plenty of good, reliable hair
tonics which do not contain a particle OF
coloring. Hair grows you know, from DELI
cate bulbs or roots. 1t Is perfect nonsense
to talk Of doing anything for the hair as
long as these are not in an absolutely
healthy state.
'eThe electric treatment is a fine thing.
If anything can stimulate the scalp that
will The needle is applied to the roots of
all the light dry hair. IL doesn't hurt, and
I've known it 20 arrest dozens of cases OF
gray hair or badness No. women are not
becoming bald,-I don't think they viii. Us-a
ually the cause which produces badness
in a man will make woman's hair gray
l don't know why. Perhaps nature recog-
nizes the fact that women must have
something to pin their hats to"
How about working by electric light or
artificial light?"
THAT won't injure the hair, ordinarily.
But IL the bulb Is close enough to the
head to keep the hair heated, 1t will
cause SC to fail out"
"Do women ever bleach the hair white,
thinking 1t becomingg'
mo, not here. That's all a fabrication.
There is a French process which viii
whiten tho hair, but it is quite dangerous,
and likely to produce an incurable scalp
disease. No reputable hair dealer would
sell the stuff without explaining this, and,
of course, not many women care to try
the experiment"
ooh, we'll" said the doctor, zone reason
that so many young-faced, gray-haired
women are seen is that it is a popularity
of some nervous diseases that they make
people look younger. It's a fact. One Of
my patients, who Is suffering from nerv-
Gus prostration, appears ten years young
err than she really IS. The face is relaxed,
the muscles are not tense, and the mind
Is unlmDaired. The least exertion brings
a spark to the eye aud a bright color to
the cheeks. At the same time the hair
becomes quite gray In fact. the woman
* old enough to have gray hair natural
ly, but she doesn't look 1t. In the MAN, I.
think that women are becoming gray
earlier than they used to- and l think it
Is caused by nervous strain"