Daily camera., 1901-03-08
woMAN's GROWING GLORY.
Tkis Authority Says Steam Heat IL
Often Responsible for Loss
OF Hair.

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| Of Hair.
"Steam heat is responsible for your
loss Of hair" said Nine. Restorer to
a young woman whose head was un-
dergoing preliminary examination
in the white tiled and nickel-plated
shampooing room of prosperous
beauty parlor, according to the Wash:
ington Star. There are scalps that
can and do triumphantly endure the
greatest amount of dry heat, but they
are not many" Here she enveloped
her patient in a big waterproof cape
and, tipping her forehead. 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
a thick growth of hair as protec-
tion. just as she gives it to animals;
but the torrid temperature of our
houses checks this tendency which we
inherited from our monkey forebears.
Year after year the young shoots
creep out in the autumn, asking for
moisture and 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 quickly see what. comparative
ly speaking, are barren wastes on
your head. These are the places
where the rejuvenating crop of young
hair should come from every year, but
instead, only few weak spears
spring up, grow about an inch long
and then, for lack of nutrition, dwin-
die and fall out at the touch of the
brush or when your head is washed.
There is only one other condition
that produces similar unfortunate re-
suits. By that mean gout or excess
sive indigestion. The acid created in
the system and forming gouty deposit
in the joints rarely or never fails to
play havoc with the hair. and just as
soon as I lay my hands on the head
Of gouty patient can recognize the
trouble by the feel of the hair. 1t is
invariably harsh, stiff and lusterless,
and in nine times out of ten very
gray. Gout is on the increase, I can
tell, because girls OF 10, who come to
me to have their heads treated, often
show all the ugly symptoms, and as l
have been washing. rubbing and
studying hair for some Is years now,
l can say with a great deal Of conf
dence that women's hair is not what
it used to be.
It fades and falls at an earlier age
with each succeeding generation, and
though hope am not stupid
alarmist, I do believe the time will
come when total badness will have
to be esteemed beauty, and hair on
woman's head as notifying as a
beard on her chin. Meantime, there
are lots of things we hairdressers do
to delay the fatal period when bill
lard ball crown will be regarded as q
charming feature. For instance, We
wash the hair ever % gently, and in
stead Of tearing out the precious
strands with . rough toweling. fol-
lowed by a brushing. we lift up the
sopping tresses. when they are free
from dust and soap, and put the
length Of them through patent roll
er that softly presses out the water;
then the patient lies back in an easy
chair, her hair spread out behind her
on a towel, and sweet. warm air is
blown on the damp locks in such
fashion that the currents Of air
straigbten out nearly all the tangles.
FINALLY, the dried hair is creased,
and always with cocoanut oil, mixed
with little sulphur and a bit Of ex-
tract OF fresh fat pine that has been
soaked in alcohol. That is the best
tonic and brilliantine discovered yet,
and in Paris, when q very sensitive
scalp is under treatment, the oint-
ment is reduced to liquid state and
applied as spray to the roots of the
| nAlE. Ever tAlhk 10 uoho w PAS'She
unnecessary rubbing and handling and
pulling at the weakened growth, with
the result very often that the original
tone and productivity is entirely re-
stored to the scalp.
mo, there is no unguent for the
scalp superior to cocoanut oil, and as
q proof Of it's efficacy should like
YOU to see the native men of the
Island of Ceylon. Few men in that
spicy isle but boast suits OF hair that
1would set an American girl daft with
envy. Their great names fall often
clear to their feet, the quality OF the
hair is curly and silken, and the color
10 a pure black. Even the guides.
who take you about sightseeing feel
the tenderest pride and pleasure In
their magnificent tresses. which all
day they wear twisted in a mighty
coil at the back of the head. with
never q hairpin to hold the heavy
loops in place. By twist Of the wrist
the end of the long hair Is tucked in
to support the rest, and on inquiry l
a,d tho% %ha Aai1v foilek Of the