Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-03-09
IN REGARD TO THE HAIR.
Diet and Habits of Life Effect Its
Growth and Beauty.

|
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
untoward conditions, there is no Tea-
son why every woman should not re-
tain the luxuriant glossy richness of
! her hair until the day of her death.
Another cheerful assertion Of this sci
entific hair doctor is that by proper
! and persistent treatment hair that ic
| losing gloss and color can be induced
to revive and the first demand she
makes is that her patients shall give
their heads plenty Of sunshine, fresh
| air and water.
| When a patient comes to her for eX-
animation 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
powerful electric light, studies her
! subject If you have thrown yourself
on her mercy because silver threads
will, if the trouble has not gone too
| far, counsel one simple expedient,
| that Of uprooting the white strands as
! soon as they appear. In youth, with
good health and no hereditary tenden-
| cy to grayness, this serves as a check
and often as a preventive, for as sure
as twice two are four one gray hair
| hri ~ SC hot To
| pluck out whole handful of long
strands and cast them from you.
Added to these instructions she
warns all patients who suffer from in
cipient grayness to get their heads
out of doors and into the sunshine as
much as possible. Americans turn
| gray sooner than any other nation be-
cause of the indoor lives they lead.
Peasants, 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 summer drives people out
| of doors, a gray hair is a curiosity
except among the very aged.
For this reason gof1lng, bicycling
and walking out of doors without q
hat are warmly advocated by this hair
doctor, but she strenuously urges her
| patients 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 sitting in a sunny window
and shaking the tresses, combing them
| no oh
| the light to soak into the scalp.
Nov, in America explained this
artist, as she sat before one head in
I the most deplorable condition, "the
women, because of the climate and the
hot houses, their highly nervous or
CARNATIONS and the modern intellect
! ual requirement, suffer from diseases
Of the hair rarely known abroad. If
you bring an Irishwoman from the
moist, equable 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
! time her head becomes acclimated, but
the growth never returns, and the sud-
den changes of temperature and the
dry heat in our houses are the cause.
Added to these troubles, her hair
grows hard and is apt to lose its
gloss. This is the result almost wholly
| of food.
"The hair is nourished as much by
what one eats as the blood and flesh
are, so when a woman comes to me
with complaint that her hair is not
| IJ1E sc, Il nd
breaking, I treat her through her
stomach and not her scalp. Brown
bread, cracked wheat. potatoes baked
in their jackets, plain boiled vege-
tables and such simple dietary, in
sist upon. Beautiful, soft, bright hair
cannot be grown from a diet of fine
bolted -four bread, cake and salads.
and if you want handsome head Of
hair you must eat with due regard 70
the albumen, gelatine, etc, Required
for color and softness.
''In the springtime a course of sui
| phur is good for the hair, and from
time to time prunes and spinach, cram
berries and such food must be taken
to supply the 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 de-
gree in quantity and quality.
MANY persons ascribe this to dand-
| run and plaster the scalp with grea Sc
or buy brushes with saw-like teeth
and attempt the cruel process Of fore
ing the dandruff out AS a matter CT
fact there is but one kind of dandruff
that is to be feared, the thick, scaly.
yellow kind. That scurf shows grow
ing disease of the scalp: 1t often comes
after fevers, and no woman can be
clean and healthy whose head shows
it. Fine white dandruff is a good in
dication rather than not and a stiff
hair brush does not take 1t out.