The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-24

| however, must have frequent washings
in warm ammonia water, taking care 10
keep the backs dry. They should never
be put in the sunlight when wet, but
| left TO dry in an open window.
Unknown hair washes do great mis-
chief. Good health, wholesome food and
proper care of the scalp are the three
most important essentials toward beau
| tiful and iuxuriant hair There are some
simple lotions, harmless and easily pre-
pared, which will assist the growth and
nourish the roots. Here is one:
Castor oil. one part.
Oil Of sweet almonds, one part.
Tannin, one part.
! Or this, which allays dryness Of the
skin, removes scurf and subdues ir-
ritaoihty:
Borax, two drams.
Glycerine, two Grams.
Distilled water, eight ounces.
Apply each night, wetting the scalp
thoroughly.
Dandruff, which has upset the clam
| serenity Of many woman's happy ex-
| istance, is eaily done away with. The
firstthing is to dispense with the comb.
Wash the head with CASTLE soap and
rinse well. Then apply this ointment,
which is strongly recommended:
Beef marrow, sixty parts.
Oil of sweet almonds, twenty parts.
Flower of sulphur, one part.
Tincture of benZoin, ten parts.
Every other night is quite often
| enough for the application of this oint-
ment 1t is to be we'll rubbed into the
scalp.
If the hair is to glossy and oily. a
weekly shampoo is beneficial. After the
hair is perfectly dry the scalp can te
gone over with a tiny, soft toilet brush.
At night apply this ointment, which
| must be rubbed away with a piece Of
poft linen in the morning, until the diff
| Guilty IS removed.
Oleum ruset, or. S., equal 20 fifteen
parts.
Ungt aquae rosae ad. OF. iv., equal to
100 parts.
Ol. rosae ct K to XXX, equal 10 one part.
Now the cold weather is here the hair
| curling prblem solves itself. But in
summer on, how wretcned is woman
kind over straight, stringy bangs that
make her look like a Beardsley carica-
ture of a French poodle dog, or a little
! worse. Here is a bandoline winch is
entirely harmless. and which. 1 trust.
will make her happy when the warm
days of next summer come:
Gum tragacanth, one and one-half
drachms.
Proof spirit, three ounces.
After of roses, ten drops.
Water, seven ounces.
Curling irons certainly do heaps Of
damage Auy woman who has ever
found herself suddenly bereft of a nice
fluffy bang. and in its place a stubby
little burned-off fringe, will say that
this is true. while those numerous nair-
crimping girls who have known the
hurnilia ting and painful experience OF
having a hot curling iron do frolics
down their necks can add startling
testimony and, what is more SHOW dis
figuring scars as proof.
Certain is is that curling irons kill the
life and lovely texture Of the hair. Be-
sides how very ugly and unkempt those
burned little ends look. 1t was surely
not OF such that Pope wrote:
Fair tresses mans imperial race en-
snare.
And beauty draws US with a single
hair.
Soft papers in which the short locks
are wound is the best hair curling meth
oil. Kid curlers are all rigtt, providing
the hair does not become entangled in
the small ends OF the curriers' and so have
TO De torn when the hair is taken down.
There is a certain secret in the hair
curing process which Is too intangible
tor written description. The hair mus.
not be wound TO tightly and TIE effect
must be a loose. fluffy. natural fringe.
Those fO.tunsa women 10 whom
straight curls There is nithing Tret-
tier than hair draw locsly away from the
face. II leaves displayed those lovely
lines on the temples about which artists
and poets 60 mad. As 10 the style of
dressing ones hair that must be left
solely 70 ones taste. II the lines os the
head. tie shape OF the face and the hair
seseif are studied bit the solution of
the most becoming coiffure is very easily
solved
A head that looks Ike wax image
IN a hair dre<ser's window IS certainly
snythEg but pretty. Neither is IL ar
tistic. for the correctly c-in7ed and wzT-
ed side locks are Far too nechs nlcaIy
planned 20 look at al natural To mar