The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-24

unavoidable influences cause the hair to
decay. For instance, uncleanliness, mis-
management, the use of improper tonics,
too rich food, poor food, impaired health,
anxiety, watchfulness, irregular habits,
III temper, intemperance, excessive indul-
ence of the passions, exposure TO sudden
changes and extremes of climate, keeping
The head too hot, undue pressure, lack of
exercise and many other things, injure the
hair and frequently cause it 10 fall out.
The thousands of hair reviewers on the
market make promises 10 obviate all these
evil influences and all the others known
to man. But promise is not performance.
What these reviewers do is one thing;
what they promise 10 do would fill many
books. Some of them are good but very
few, and all the rest are horrid. What is
worse, they are frauds. The being doesn't
live and never has lived who has invented
a tonic that will make hair grow on bald
heads, for he would be known the world
over as the richest man on the face of the
earth.
A careful student of hair reviewers might
look every one in existence over and he
wouldn't find one that didn't promise not
to dye, but to change the hair back to its
original color. All of them are made of
innocent materials, so their manufacture
ers assert and not one contains any min
eral or acid, even though warranted to
change coal black hair to a beautiful
Broadway blonde in a few minutes with
one application. Perhaps the dead manu-
facturers would turn over in their graves
and the hair of the living stand on end
did they know that the magnificent lus-
trous locks of the Turkish women and the
beautiful black boards of the Turkish men
are due to the constant use of hair dye
made of copper and iron metal powder
fused with finely pulverized gals into
paste with a little oil. The important
thing about this dye is that the hair re-
mains soft, plant and for long time
black when once dyed with the substance.
The coioring properties are chiefly as
cribed to the pyrogallic acid.
When an expert was asked whether bus
mess in hair restorers was as good as
formerly he said to a Sun reporter
Strange to say, It is better than ever
before. / say strange, because l believe
people are more intelligent than ever be-
fore and why any one with an atom of
intelligence or common sense should buy
just any hair tonic whose promises happen
to read well puzzles me. Some people be-
lieVe that increasing badness is one of
the penalties that we are paying for an
advanced civilization and that we shall
become in time a hairless nation. Judging
by the millions of bottles of hair tonics
restorers, dyes and what not that are an
|
is a man, woman or child in this country
with a spear of hair left. There are ex-
cellent tonics, of course, but many are
actually dangerous and might injure one
for life if persstently used.
"Piesse the great French authority on
toilet articles says as a general rule So
ciety does not use enough pomades and
hair oils hence the number of rough-look-
ing heads of hair that are to be seen
x1ybara man apd women are assembled to-
gether with their hats off. On the other
hand there are people whose hair is so
naturally moist and greasy that no kind
of unguent is required. Such hair is very
liable to come off. to be thin lank and
pliable, whereas good hair should always
have a certain amount of wooliness in it
TO give that appearance of life and vigor
so becoming in curly locks. Thin and
naturally greasy hair requires a wash to
keen It in nice ORDER and, if the hair is
falling off from sickness or natural decay,
the wash should be astringent and slim
ulant. He is undoubtedly right Both
women and men nowadays have an antip-
athy for any oily application for the hair
and rather use one they buy some prepar-
alton about which they know nothing
1.-THE practice of artficially renewing or
changing the color of the hair has come
to us from remote antiquity We do not
go about II as the ancients did, and some
| times doubt whether our methods are so
! free from danger as theirs were. Long
ago it was discovered that colored hair
contains sulphur and traces of iron, black
| hair having the largest proportion of this
metal Healthy, light-colored hair con-
| tains sulphur, and little trace of iron,
while gray hair, even when otherwise Wig
orous, contains only sulphur. In the
white hair Of old age there is not even
trace Of sulphur. Scientists have availed
| themselves of these facts and have at
tempted. very successfully, to darken the
hair or to tighten il by conveying TO the
hair bulbs. through the absorbent powers
! of the skin, one or both OF the mineral
| substances mentioned.
unfortunately for the heads of most
folks every compounder of a hair restor-
or is not scientific, and peroxide of hy-
drogen and nitrate of silver are used with
! a recl<lessness that makes black turn
| b,ond i'm a day and white ones black in a
! nioht Peroxide beaches the most color
less hair from a rich mahogany brown
TO that blond color which, even in Nero'S
| time. was in bad order, and then, if a
strong enough solution is used, 10 a pure
white. Sugar of lead lac sulphur and
/ nitrate of silver are much employed TO
restore the hair 10 dark shades. Walnut
| mice is found to be effective on once
! brown heads, while henna is reserved for
! auburn tnts.
"A healthy condition Of the hair depends
upon a healthy physical condition gener-
! allv. If women would only let this sink
| into their hearts. instead Of going to ig
norast hairdressers and quacks when their
bair drops out or fades, or instead of step
ming into the nearest drug store and buy
| ing the bottle of hair remover which neld
out the most hopes on its face, they would
consult the family physician. When the
blood is impoverished ones hair will not
he vigorous; when food fails TO assimilate
the Growing glory can't be glossy and
silky. Every weakness affects me scaip'
i,,et as II does every other part of the
boav. and, naturally. crops out IN the hair.
eve Htt.e dream how many women
have tneir hair restored or its color en-
tlrelv changed. Those who can AFFORD y.
and are intelligent, have this done by an
exnert. They know OF what the c0loring
mater Is compounded and have h cx-
ouisiteiy applied. almos hair by hair. TIE