Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-05-02
CARL OF TIL HAIR.
STEAM HEAT RESPONSIBLE FOR
SCANTY LOCKS.
AIR AND MOISTURE NEEDED
Age With Each Generation
French Woman's Useful Hints
Regarding Care of Hirsute Adorn-
ments.

Steam heat is responsible for your
loss of hair said Nine. Figaro to a
young woman whose head was under
going a preliminary examination in
the white-tiled and nickle-plated
/ shampooing-room of prosperous
beauty parlor. There are scalps that
can and do triumphantly endure the
greatest amount of dry heat, but they
are not many" Here she enveloped
her patron in a big white waterproof
cape and, tipping her head over the
edge of marble basin, poured on
liquid suds while she talked.
What the steam heat does is to
take out of the atmosphere just what
most scalps need, that is, Of course,
the moisture. Then, too, in winter,
natures normal impulse is to send
us thick growth of hair as protec-
ton, just as she gives it to the
animals; but the torrid temperature
of our houses checks this tendency
which we inherited from our monkey
forbears. Year after year the young
shoots creep out in the autumn, asking
for moisture and a cool, invigorating
temperature to encourage their
growth, but these two most essential
conditions are denied them, and by
and by the roots die in their cells and
only the long hair remains to do duty
If you could just go over your scalp
with magnifying glass you would
uni 1Iyl hot / i.
speaking, are barren wastes on your
head. These are the places where the
rejuvenating crop of our hair should
come from ever year, but instead only
few weak spears spring up, grow
about an inch long, and then, for lack
of nutrition, dwindle and fall out at a
touch of the brush or when your head
is washed.
There is only one other condition
that produces similar unfortunate
results. By that | mean gcut, or ex-
cessive Indigestion. The acid created
in the system and forming equity de-
post in the joints rarely or never
fails to play havoc with the hair.
Women's hair is not what is used to
be.
1T fades and falls at an earlier age
with each succeeding generation.
There are lots of things we hair
dressers do to delay the fatal period
when a billiard-ball crown will be re-
garded as a charming feature. For
Instance, we wash the hair ever so
gently, and instead of tearing out the
precious strands with a rough towel
ing, followed by a brushing, we lift
up the sopping tresses, when they are
free froh- Gast and soap, and put the
length of them through a patent roller
that softly presses out the water:
then the patient lies back in an easy
chair, her hair is spread behind her
on towel and sweet, warm air is
blown on the damp locks in such a
fashion that the currents of air
strengthen out nearly all the tangles.
Finally the dried hair is creased
and always with cocoanut oil, mixed
with a little sulphur and bit of ek-
tract of fresh fat pine that has been
soaked in alcohol. That is the best
tonic and brilliantine discovered yet,
and in Paris, when a very sensitive
scalp is under treatment, the ointment
is reduced to liquid state and applied
as spray to the roots of the hair.
Everything is done to prevent I'M
necessary rubbing and handling AMI
pulling at the weakened growth. with
the result very often that the original
tone and productivity is entirely re-
stored to the scalp.
NO, there is no unguent for the |
scalp superior to cocoanut oil. and as !
proof of its efficacy | should like Won
TO see the native men of the island of |
Ceyion. Few men in that spicy isle |
but boast suits of hair that would set
an American girl daft with envy. |
Ihelr great names fall often clear to |
thelr feet, lie quai.,y of the hair is |
curly and silken, and the color is a |
pure black, as glittering as it is and
rlch and deep in tone. The daily |
toilet of the humblest Cingalese be. |
gins with a shampoo. No soap or
comb is used, but in a tub of clean |
water the hair is dipped, wrung out,
with the fingers, and
and shaken until quite dry.
ana then teaspoonful of perfectly
lresh cocanut oil is rubbed in and
through it all.
IL every American woman could
anord to battle her head seven times a
week. use absolutely fresh oil and
aolure hats and hairpins, the effect
would be nothing short of marvellous,
because it is for want of moisture.
fresh air and freedom that our women
are in imminent danger of losing
permanently their natural crowns of
ourls and braids and shining bands of
beautiful hair"