The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-31
WOMEN MISTREAT THEIR HAIR.

Relatively, the women of the United
States, says the Chicago Chronicle,
have smaller quantity of hair than
their sisters in any other part of the
globe. This is due, according to
recognized authority on the subject, to
the fact that our women do not know
how to care for their locks properly
He says:
American women, as a rule, do not
have abundant hair because they
habitually mistreat it. With them a
becoming couture is the first consid-
GRAFTON, and in securing that they ig-;
more the commonest rules for the
proper treatment of the hair. Until
very recent years the daily manipula-
ton of the curing irons was part of
every woman's toilet, with the excep-
ton of those endowed by nature with
fluffy, waving locks, and the curling-
tongs have ruined many a fine suit of
hair. The continual application of ex-
IRENE heat checks the secretions. of oil
in the scalp and in time, when the oil
glands cease their functions, the hair
becomes thinned in quantity and rough
and dry in texture. Another fruitful
source of trouble is too frequent wash
ing.
T1dIT Is DeIlOT without DelnR WASH
ed. That does not mean that. it must
not be cleansed, but the agent en-
ployed should not be water. What
should be used is a cleaning prepara-
ton or hair tonic, mixed for the pur-
pose, with a little oil as one of the in
gradients. Oil carries off dirt better
than water does, and a few drops rub
bed on the scalp once or twice a week
will keep it in a clean and healthy
condition. The hair itself needs a
thorough brushing daily to remove
the loose dust. A five-minute mas
sage of the scalp every morning is
also both cleansing and invigorating.
Women with whitening locks are
obliged to resort to frequent sham
poos to keep at bay the ugly yellow
tinge that only water and strong aka
Ii will bleach out, but the growth of
the hair suffers in consequence. Most
girls wash their hair two or three
times a month. The hue is thus
frightened a little and a becoming
f1uffiness is gained, but the natural oil
is checked and the scalp in time loses
it's health and vigor.
1.-THE present fashion has banished
crimped and curling locks, and sub
stituted instead the crisp masses of
hair which frame the wearer's face
like an aureole. Beneath the luxu-
RANT tresses that are in evidence,
rats are employed to give sustance to
the structure. Another method of
stimulating a dense growth, more
popular because it dispenses with the
use of false hair is termed rafting
This consists in roughening the re-
verse side the locks that surround the
face by combing them the wrong
way thus converting them into a
tangled mass. This serves as a stuff
fing' for the pompadour, which is then
brushed into a state of glossy perfec-
ton over the rouEhened hair beneath.
1t is needless to say that such treat
ment is injurious in the highest de-
gree. 1t is as destructive to the tex
ture of the hair to comb it the wrong
way as it would be to a butterf1y's
wing to rub it up. So long as women
fiagrantly abuse their hair in these
different ways they must not expect
the abundance and beauty of texture
easily attained by proper treatment"