The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-13

One has only to be beauty DOCTOR
to know how many dear geese there
are who are not satisfied with nice
brown or black or dun-colored hair.
And you don't have to follow your pro-
fession more than two weeks to hear
that the majority Of heads which so
eagerly sold their birthright for mess
of temporary golden locks, would give
good deal to be brown Or black or
dun colored again.
For there is no rest for the peroxide
head-it won't either stay beautiful or
go back to it's old color without I'M
numbered didoes. And all the time
there is poor miss or madame, morti-
fed out of her wits by the varying
shades of yellow or red, by the straw
like quality of her hair, by its dead
look and scantiness.
For all this comes at last, and the
beauty doctor hears it when the suffer-
ers write her for harmless dye-aS If
dyes We're ever harmless!-or beseech
her to tell them what in the name of
goodness to do.
What is there to do? Well, whole
lot of things, but the first of them are
in the nature of the first aid to the in
jured.
The roots of hair which has been
DIcdCucQ ny ILLS pOWcIlui Iilculuil, eS-
pecially if the blonding has been going
on q long time, have either been utterly
destroyed or else are in a fair way to
lose their little remaining vigor. So, in
order that this hair may be even co.,
ored SatisfactOrily-grant the case
is so extreme as to require dye
some life must be brought back to it
by natural methods. With the bleach
ing stopped instantly, the poor head
must be massaged twice week with
olive or castor oil; it must have heal
ing shampoos, brushing. airings. 1t
must be left to go without heating
cushions and without the Worriment of
metal hairpins. In short, it must be
held in the arms and nursed like sick
baby!
Expert massage will bring the best
results, but if this cannot be afforded,
let the patient use her own hands. dip
ping and rubbing these with a circular
pinching movement all over the scalp
until every part of it has been thor
oughly manipulated.
If the hair is parted in the middle of
the head from the forehead to the nape
of the neck, and one-half done at a
time, the operation will seem easier.
An excellent tonic for peroxided hair.
or hair which has been faded by the
salt baths and sun, is made as follows:
Sweet almond oil. ..............1 pint
Alkanet root .2k ounces
Oil of cloves ................1 10 grains
Olf OF mace ...............l ~ grams
on OF rose .l9 grams
Oil of cinnamon .......1 drachm
Tincture of musk ..........15 grains
Put the alkanet, coarsely powdered,
in the almond oil, place over a low heat
and let warm gradually. leaving the
root in till the oil is richly colored.
Then strain through coarse muslin and
add the other oils, massaging the tonic
into the scalp after the hair has been
shampooed and dried.
The night and morning brushing
comes next for this lifeless hair. which
has refused at last to take even perox-
idle acceptably, and if this also can be
done by other hands than the patients
the benefit will be all the more marked.
A brush with long bristles should be
chosen for this lifegiving operation and
the hair divided into strands by way of
preliminary. Each of these strands
should be taken up separately in the
left hand, the stroke must begin by
sinking the bristles first through the