Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-10-30
TOUThFU l GRAY HAIR.
n chicago ~Hnirdresscr Gives Her
View of Its Cause.


Have you noticed that so many
young women have gray hair nova
days."
"liave | noticed it?" repeated the
woman hairdresser in n s~cornful voice.
Maybe | haven't any eyes. And let
me tell YOU" she continued, "if it wasn't
for the enormous sale of hair dives,
actually believe there'd be ten times MS
many gray-haired women as we see now,
laugh often over the regular announce
1nents that women have quit using hair
~resiorers (Which are usually dyes) and
nave decided that gray hair is becoming.
II is my experience, in pretty extensive
observation, that nine women out of
ten dread gray hair, and fight its ap-
proach as they would a plague. Gray
hair makes anybody look older, and we
ali know it. | admit, it is often charm
ing. and softens a face wonderfully, but
1t adds years, all the same. When you
see a fresh-faced, white-haired woman
what do you think? Why, naturally,
what a young face that old lady has.
Not one observer in 25 reflects that there
Is a young woman with white hair"
But there are a great many?"
on, dear, yes. | have plenty OF
patrons whose hair is gray at 25. The
reason of it is plain enough. Nervous
prostration, oyerwork, overexcitement
worry, all those things are prime hair
bleachers. Women now try to learn
everything. And they are crowding into
professions, where they o~vertax them.
selves. There isn't any need of it, either
~ woman can work every day in the
week, moderately, eat Il wholesome
luncheon, leave her cares at the down.
office, and grow young on it. as |
Nerves are the cause of wrinkles
mlnd you, and gray hair, and about
everything that destroys beauty. If a
discovers that she is getting
gray or hair is falling out, she must use
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 doctor, to put
her system in order, and some local
lieatment from her hairdresses. There
Ire plenty of good, reliable hair tones.
which do not contain a particle of col
BRING. Hair grows, you know, from
ielicate bulbs or roots. 1t is perfect
lonsense to talk of doing anything for
he hair as long as these are not in an
'bsolutely healthy state.
The electric treatment is a fine thine
I anything can stimulate the scalp that
vlll. The needle is applied to the roots
I all the light, dry hair. 1t doesn't
nrt, and I've know it to arrest dozens of
asses of gray hair or badness. No.
are not becoming bald don't
hink they will. Usually the cause
'hich produces badness in a man will
a woman's hair gray. l don't
now why. Perhaps nature recognizes
he fact that women must have some
hing to pin their hats to-"
How about working by electric light
r artificial light?"
THAT won't injure the hair, ordi.
arily. But II the bulb is close enough
} the head to keep the hair heated, it
i'll cause it to fall out"
DO women ever bleach the hair {
hite, thinking it becoming?" '
NO, not here. That's all a fabrica. .
on. There is a French process which :,
i'll whiten the hair, but it is quite dan. |
'rous, and likely to produce an incur. 9
Die scalp disease. No reputable hair .
would sell the stuff without ex- !.
this, and, of course, not many !
'men care to try the experiment" :,
'Oh, we'll" said the doctor, lone rea. !
n that so many young-faced, gray i
'lred women are seen is that it is a pe- y"
llarlty OF some nervous diseases that r
ey make people look younger. It's n =
One of my patients, who is suffer. =,
& from nervous prostratiou, appears -
n years younger than she really is. .;
lie face is relaxed, the muscles are not :"
use, and the mind is unimpaired. The -
list exertion brings a spark to the l..
e and a bright color to the cheeks. At :,
e same time the hair becomes quite
ay. In fact, the woman is old enough
have gray hair naturally, but sb.
look it. In the main, | think u
at women are becoming gray earlier
an they used to, and | think II ia
Used by nervous strain."-Chicapo "
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