Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-11
ALL ABOUT BRUSHES
FIVE ARE ESSENTIAL TO GOOD
GROOMING.
Bristles Becoming Scarce - Practical
and Ornamental Access
sories.

Among her toilet accessories every woman
must count at least five brushes as essential
to being well groomed, and many women
have as many eight in their possession
each one for a different purpose. The five
indispensable brushes are for the hair,
nails teeth, clothes and shoes, while Miladi
Dainty adds a soft brush for her hats, an
eyebrow brush and a camers hair flesh
brush.
Not all of the handsomely backed brushes
which match toilet sets in silver, gold
ivory are made with the best bristles. Be
cause of the growing scarcity of the finest
brush bristles, really good hair brush,
mounted in the plainest of wood, cannot be
purchased for less than 81. The wild boar
of Russia and of northern Germany, from
which the best quality Of bristles OBJ
tanned, are being killed off as the popula-
ton of those countries increases. Peasants
net tidy little sums from picking up bris-
ties In the regions where the animals are
found.
Turtle back ebony is one of the finest
backings in the market for hair brush.
1t is not the prettiest material used, but
for durability it has no equal. 1t is not
quite black, but shows a fine grain almost
like tortose-sheN.
jewelers. rival one another in their dis
play of beautifully mounted brushes. One
brush, matching a set including mirror
and comb has a back of dull gold eX
quisitely chased and inset, in the center,
with q miniature done in hand painting
on old ivory. Another brush has polished
silver back with the monogram raised in
dull gray, as if it were simply laid on the
polished surface.
Hammered brass. studded with old
Egyptian gems in antique design, makes an
odd but very heavy hair brush backing
Combs to match come in tortoise-shell with
q beaten brass mounting.
Women who have long and heavy mar
are appropriating military brushes for their
| own, thereby adding one more mannlsh ac-
cessory to their possessions. With nan
| dleless brush l. is much easier to give the
hair a thorough grooming. Military sets
are shown with tortoise-shell backs, but
they come al a fabulous price.
For the woman who prefers white
carved ivory brushes are at her command
or at the command of her purse, per-
haps A chseled ivory brush of ample di-
mensions. and made to match an entire
toilet table set, was marked at 500; Inc
same design was carried out in the handle
of the nail lie, the round powder box, the
comb, shoc-horn and jewel casket.
A novel rrlsh devised for drying the
hair was built with hollow, flask-like
back and holl0w steel brstles. The handle
screwed off, leaving the entrance TO the
back open, so that boiling water might be
poured in and permitted to run down into
the tiny tube-lke bristes, heating them
sufficiently to effect the drying process
quickly.
Wire brushes with rubber backings are
| used by persons who do not fancy comb
but they are tabooed by hair specialists
as being too harsh for the scalp. They also
| split the hair
| For nail brushes and tooth brushes, the
| less characterization the more practical Will
| they be, although some of the silver and
| ivory handles on these smaller brushes are
| temptingly pretty.