Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-11
TO ACQUIRE A WAVE.
Harmless Treatment Which VIII
Cause Straight Hair to Assume
a Graceful Curl.

Typhoid fever recently left a young
woman with a head like a billiard bail.
She now has a short but abundant new
crop Oh soft, curly, dark brown hair, for
which she is so thankful that she wishes
to share with the readers OF the Trib-
une the simple secret OF its growth,
says thai New York paper. An older
woman Las already taken lessons from
the young one in hair cultivation, and
instead of the harsh, foxy" growth
that usually in the transition to
gray hairs, hers has a bright, silvery
CLINT.
But let no woman with weak wrists
and limp arms try this treatment" says
the first woman, unless she has a
strong and willing proxy. Neither will
a lazy or impatient person get good re-
suits, for it will be from two to four
weeks before improvement may be
looked for.
I'm the way of tools, two hair brushes,
with firm, but not harsh bristles, are
absolutely necessary. The only tonic
required may be bought for ten cents.
Don't take any scented emollients, but
buy of an honest druggist the we'll
known ~lanolin, an unpatented article,
nearly as cheap as lard, and as old as
Cleopatra, who is said to have owed
the preservation of her youth and beauty
to it's use. 1t Is extracted from sleeps
wool by an art which, after having been
lost for centuries, was rediscovered
about IA years ago by a German profess
sor, who is probably going about with
a shiny pate, while women are improv-
Ing hair and complexion by the use of
his discovery.
Before applying the lanolin see that
the scalp and hair are clean. If not
convenient to have the head shampooed,
wiring a wash cloth out of ammoniated
water and use briskly, rinsing several
times, and finishing with dry, coarse
towels.
mix the lanolin with a soupcon of
vaseline or olive oil to make it less salve-
like, and apply with the tips of the
fingers, using both hands for the pur-
pose. Divide the hair into four parts
and rub the ointment into the roots, be-
ginning at the forehead and working
from the middle to the side partings.
Then begin at the back, and work up.
Use little ointment, but plenty of brisk
massage. If the treatment is given
with sufficient care, there should be
little g~reasiness anywhere but on the
scalp, but If the lanolin is applied at
night, it will be well to protect the pill
low slip. The two brushes must be used
in the morning, after first combing the
hair well. Take in each hand, divide
the front hair, comb it up, begin in the
center and brush upward so strokes, CIV
ing a seconds time to each stroke. Treat
both sides in the anne way. The back
may be done all at once, fastening the
long hair on top and brushing it sep
arately at the enc. Hair that is noV
straight as a poker will become wavy if
these instructions arc literally followed.
Ten minutes brushing every morning is
sufficient, and the exercise is excellent.
When the need for the emollient ceases
the brushing may be done at night, and
clean brushes are an important part of
the treatment. They should be washed
in warm water, back and all, at least
once a week.
""Too f%atiguing;' too much trouble
many will say, but if the directions are
strictly followed for the time mentioned
nc persuasion will be needed to con
tinue. Fifty strokes with a hair brush
takes less than one minute, and the hair
that is brushed out is dead stuff that
needs to come away to make room for
the new growth, which will be seen to
start on a bare spot like fuzzy down on
a tiny chick"