Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-03-09

"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; never use soap; look upon
bOraX, soda, ammonia, or any prepar-
atoms containing these alkaiis as en-
emies, and don't pour bay rum on your
hair. Occasionally lemon juice is nice.
but the well-beaten egg is better. and
after rubbing with the hands, rinsing
in clear, cold water, and drying in the
sun the hair is ready for the applica-
ton Of some reliable tonic used merely
to soften and set the secretions in the
roots to flowing
Every night and morning the hair
should be let down and the possessor
should, with her fingers, gently mas
sage every part of the scalp. This gets
up a good circulation and raises all
the dandruff that will naturally rise
If she will then gently shake the hair
that lies close to the head the dand-
ruff will fall out. Follow this by
brushing out the long hair softly 20
dislodge the dust that in twelve 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
down your back at night, and try 10
study out several good ways of pinning
it up by day. Hair should not be worn
tightly twisted and pinned, nor stead
lily, for any great length of time, in
one style. Light weight and very open
toothed combs should be used in max
ing the pompadour. and night and
morning, when arranging your hair,
dip the dressing comb several times IN
pure water. Hair is like any other
plant. 1t needs drink, and in our dry
climate, where there is little moisture
in the air, to dampen the locks twice
a day is a necessity, else they grow
stiff from thirst.
Happily, women no longer pine
after the possession of very long hair
very long hair is apt, unless the
growth is phenomenal, to be thin at
the roots, and nowadays a woman does
not boast that her hair measures TWEEN
ty-siX, twenty-seven or thirty-five
inches, but how much her suit weighs
and how we'll her scalp is covered.
This thickness of growth is only to be
had by cutting.
Anybody who has examined the hui
man scalp closely knows that in good
condition it sends out two growths
year. If the hair is carefully pruned
it can make three growths a year, but
this cutting must be done with unfail-
ing regularity. Once a month, and as
nearly as possible on the same date
every thirty days, is the best rule.
though weak thin hair should not be
cut. Singing is best for it. Hair
that is cut bleeds just as a plant that
is pruned, and thereby loses some of
its vitality. Singing obviates the
ateuT to SINCE her hair is to gather up
the ends ana pass them slowly over
the top of a lamp chimney. Very high
from the hot chimney at first, and
then slowly lower and lower until sud
denly the ends crisp. A quarter to an
terly impossible to cherish poor hair
back to vigorous growth if curling
irons are used.
If the hair must be curled, then by
all means refrain from using paper
and pin the twisted hair up in bits of
black silk. Some women would do as
well to rub their heads daily and
stroke Their hair with old silk hand
kerchiefs, and by knotting the four
corners of a silk handkerchief slip on
this improvised cap at night. Silk
communicates electricity to the hair,
and electricity creates the essential
gloss or polish that can be retained in
snow white hair, adding greatly to it's
beauty.