Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-18
YOUTHFUL GRAY HAIR.
Hair dresser Gives Her View of Its
Cause.

AANAI dresser U1vCS Her View of Its
Cause.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Have you noticed that so many young
women have gray nair nowadays?'
Have l noticed it?" repeated the woman
hairdresser in scornful voice. Maybe 1
haven't any eyes. And let me tell you,"
she continued, 'if it wasn't for the enor-
nous sale of hair dyes, actually believe
there'd be ten times many gray-haired
women as we see now. I laugh often over
the regular announcements that women
have quit using hair restorers (Which are
usually dyes) and have decided that gray
hair is becoming. 1t is my experience in a
pretty extensive observation, that nine wo-
men out of ten dread gray hair, and fight
its approach as they would plague. Gray
hair makes anybody look older, and we all
know it. l admit, it is often charming, and
softens a 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
twenty-five reflects that there is young
woman with white hair"
But there are great many?"
''Oh, dear, yes. l have plenty of patrons
whose hair is gray at twenty-five. The
reason of 1t is plain enough. Nervous pros
tration. overwork, overexcitement. worry,
all those things are prime hair blea cheers
they are crowding into professions. where
they overtax themselves. There isn't any
need of it, either. woman can work
every day in the week, moderately, eat
wholesome luncheon, leave her cares at the
downtown office, and grow young on it. as
l do. Nerves are the cause of wrinkles.
mind you. and gray hair. and about every
thing 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 hairdresser.
There are plenty of good, reliable hair ton
les. which do not contain a particle of col
oring. 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.
THE 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 1t doesn't hurt, and
I've known 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 Il man will make a woman's hair gray.
I don't know why. Perhaps nature rec ,g-
niZes the fact that women must have some
thing to pin their hats to-
How about working by electric light CT
artificial light?'
THAT won't injure the hair, ordinarily.
But if the bulb is close enough to the head
to keep the hair heated, 1t will cause 1t to
fall OUT
DO women ever bleach the hair white.
thinking it becoming?'
mo, not here. That's all fabrication.
There is French process which will
whiten the hair. but it is quite dangerous.
and likely to produce an fncurable scalp
disease. No reputable hair dealer would
sell the stuff without explaining this. and,
Of course. not many women care to try the
experiment"
"Oh, WELL" said the doctor, zone reason
that SO many yoLng-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 nervous
prostraticn. appears ten years younger
than she really is. The face is relaxed. the
muscles are not tense, and the mind is I'M
| impaired. The least exertion brings a
spark to the eye and a bright color to the
cheeks. At the same time the hair be-
comes quite gray. In fact. the woman is
| old enough to have gray hair naturally.
| but she doesn't look 1t. In the main, I
think that women are becoming gray car
| lier than they used to- and I think it is
| caused by nervous strain"