Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-25

| ~ JJMMER is a most delightful season,
but the damage it can do to
~ woman's complexion and hair may
take months to overcome, for heat and
the unfortunate fashion of going bare
! headed is largely responsible for occa-
sionaI gray hairs in the heads OF young
girls, and one who would take precau-
| tions for the future must give special
attention to her dresses during the late
summer. 1t is then that most can be
accomplished, for the coming cold au-
tumn days are bad for the hair, drying
| it almost as much as the extreme neat
| All treatment given at this period
should be to hestore the natural OILS
that have been depleted. 1t is these
that nourish the follicies, preserving
color as well as strength, and failure
| to supply them inevitably means white
Aside from foreign applications,
brushing and massage will accomplish
most because each does much toward
stimulating the scalp, restoring 1t to
normal condition.
II is easier for a person to brush her
own head than it Is to massage, but any
one can do the latter and the art should
be practiced until 1t can be successfully
| done.
The whole secret in massage is in
moving the scalp over the skull, not the
| hair on Ine Scalp. ~ w AiiO ieLhhSt
merely snarls It without accomplishing
the slightest benefit. Success comes by
| holding the finger tips hard against the
scalp, so they cannot move, and then
pressing. This forces the scalp to move,
creating a friction below the SURFACE
that stimulates circulation, always I'M
portant In any part of the body. That
! is all that scalp massage consists OF,
| but it should be done thoroughly, first
combing and brushing the hair to re-
move all tangles. Then, seating ones
| self, rubbing should be done to all parts
of the head, slowly, not to tire the
| fingers or the arms, which necessarily
are raised. Five minutes work is pet,
ter than none; ten is even better, and
fifteen best of all. Morning and night
the scalp should be massaged, but a
busy woman scarcely has time when
she gets up.
She can, however, brush her hair, and
that she must do.
At the risk of a slight depression
am going to expatiate upon the evils of
combing; forethere is no implement or
toilet so overworked as comb, while
II should be regarded merely as an ad-
iunct to q brush. 1t should be used
merely to remove the tangles, and even
these should first be worked on with
the brush to separate the hair. A comb
both tears the hair, unless 1t is care
fully used and irritates the scalp. In
nv opinion there would be fewer cases
of dandruff were combs less often used.
They rake the skin, literally, fine teeth
doing more damage than coarse ones.
1t is not an argument in favor OF a
comb to say that brushing makes the
hair oily In point of fact. brushes do
not bring about this condition as often
as many persons seem to think, but If
so il indicates either that the brush Is
not a suitable kind or the scalp is In an
unhealthy condition.
If the hair has the slightest tendency
to sickness and heaviness, the bristles
should be soft and long, rather than
short. These will absorb the oil with
out further stimulating the glands to-
eXcretion.
When Brushing to Restore Color
When brushing is being done with the
aim of restoring tone and color to the
hair. all parts must receive equal care
This means that 1t must be divided into
strands, taking a little at a time, the
whole work requiring twenty minutes
or more, depending upon the quantity
of the hair. Incidentally, this autumn
treatment, as it were, is the best that
can be followed by women who nave
bleached their hair and are trying TO
restore that color. 1t will not actually
bring back the natural shade-only