The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-13
SCIENTIFIC HAIR DOCTOR.
She Says Plenty of Sunshine and
Oxygen Will Prevent GTayness.

Any woman who can make two
strands of hair grow where only one
grew before is a benefactor of her sex,
and she who can and does do this thing
says that barring only a few very I'M
toward conditions, there is no reason
why every woman should not retain the
luxuriant glossy richness of her hair
until the day of her death. Another
cheerful assertion of this scientific hair
doctor is, that by proper and persist
ent treatment, hair that is losing gloss
and color can be induced to revive it's
quality, and the first demand she
makes is that her patients shall give
their heads plenty of sunshine, fresh
air and water.
When a patient first comes to her for
examination and diagnosis of her scalp
and tresses, she lets down the length
of locks, runs her hands all over the
head and, adjusting her spectacles and
a powerful electric light, studies her
subject. If you have thrown yourself
on her mercy because silver threads are
appearing among the gold, she will, if
the trouble has-not gone too far, coun-
sci one simple eXpedient, that of up
roofing the white strands as soon as
they appear. In youth, with food health
and no hereditary tendency to grayish-
as a preventive, for as sure as twice
two is four one gray hair brings an
other, and it is better to pluck out a
whole handful of long strands and cast
them from you than permit the entire
head to become infected.
Added to these instructions she warns
all patients who suffer from incipient
graynesS to get their heads out of doors
and into the sunshine as much as pos
any other nation because of the indoor
lives they are obliged to lead Peas
ants, and especially the Latin and
southern races, keep the color Of their
hair the longest. In France, Italy and
SPAIN where the winters are short
and the heat of the summer drives peo-
pie out of doors, a gray head is a Curl
osity, except among the very aged.
For this reason golfing, bicycling and
walking out of doors without a hat
is warmly advocated by this hair doc
tor, but she strenuously urges her pa
tents never to let the hot summer sun
beat directly on their locks. A fierce
sun dries the hair too much, while in
winter she advocates the habit of sit
ting in a sunny window and sha lg
the tresses, combing them out over the
shoulders, and permitting the bright
light to soak, into the; scalp.
Now, in America" explained this ar
tist,s as she sat before one head in the
most deplorable condition, "the women,
because of the climate and the hot
houses their highly nervous organiza-
tons and the modern intellectual re-
quirements, suffer from diseases of the
hair rarely known abroad. If you bring
an Irish woman from the moist, equa-
BILE climate of her green country, her
hair in the United States Will begin to
fall out by the handful. and no power
can stop it. After a time her head be-
comes acclimated, but the growth never
returns, and the sudden changes in
temperature and the dry heat in our
houses is the cause. Added to these
apt to lose it's gloss, and this is the
result almost wholly of foods.
COLOR FOODS.
The hair is nourished as Sluch by
what one eats as the blood and flesh
is, so when a woman comes to me with
complaint that her hair is not growing
gray but is drying out and breaking,
treat her through her stomach and not
her scalp. Brown bread, cracked wheat,
potatoes baked in their jackets, plain
boiled vegetables and such simple
dietary, l insist upon. Beautiful, soft,
bright hair cannot be grown from a
diet of fine bolted flour bread, cake and
salads, and if you must eat with due
regard to the albumen, gelatine, ETC.,
required for color and softness.
In the spring time a course of sui
phur is good thing for the hair, and
from time to time prunes and spinach,
cranberries and such foods must be
taken to supply the proper amount of
iron needed. Hair that grows coarse
as the years increase shows that it is
losing it's gelatinous matter, though as
time goes on the hair naturally fails to
a degree in quantity and quality.
HEALTHY DANDRUFF.
Many persons ascribe this to dand-
ruff and plaster their scalps with grease
or buy brushes with saw-like teeth and
attempt the cruel process of forcing the
dandruff out AS a matter of fact there
is but one kind of dandruff that il to
be feared, the thick, scaly, yellow kind.
That Scurf shows growing disease of
the scalp; it often comes after fevers,
and no woman can be clean or healthy
whose head shows it. Fine white dan
druff is a good Indication rather than
not, and stiff hard brush does not
take it out
TAKING CARE OF THE HAIR.
"a sensible and clearly woman will
wash her hair once in three or four
weeks, and should use perfectly clear
tepid water, with white of egg to bleach
the scalp-neyer, never use soap; look
upon borax, soda, ammonia or any
preparations containing these alkalies,
| as enemies, and don't pour bay rum
on your hair. Occasionally lemon juice
is nice, but the well-beaten egg is bet
ter, and after rubbing with the hands,
rinsing in clear, cold water and drying
in the sun the hair is ready for the APP
plication of some reliable tonic used
merely to soften and set the seere-
tons in the roots to flowing.
Every night and morning the hair
! should be let down and the possessor
should, with her ten fingers, gently
massage every part of the scalp. This
gets up a good circulation and raises
all the dandruff that will naturally rise.
If she win then gently shake the hair
that lies close to the head the dandruff
can be easily induced to fall Follow
this up by brushing out the long hair
softly to dislodge the dust that in II
hours will blow up and rest there BY
this means a healthy immediately
clean head of hair can be preserved.
Braid your hair in one tail loosely