South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-10-06
FIGHTING WRONGS
TO ONE s HAIR
Summer Sports and Habits
Work Injury to the Hair
Which Proper Care Now May
Correct.

The general health is usually i'm
proved by the outdoor life possible in
summer; and in many cases the gen.
eral health is correspondingly impair
ed by the semi-indOor life necessary
or else thought necessary in winter.
The hair reflects the state of general
health.
Perhaps this is the reason why most
people think that summer is good for
the hair. 1t has life and vitality in
summer and the early days of au-
tumn which it lacks in February and
March.
But if you will but not carefully
the condition of your hair after the
carefree summer, you will probably
find that the hair itself is in a poor
state. Its roots are properly nour-
ished, because your health is good
and your blood is circulating, as 1t
should be, richly and freely in your
scalp.
But isn't your hair coming out by
handfuls"? Perhaps you ascribe this
to a sort of annual or perennial mott.
And isn't IT burned into streaks of
various shades of brown or yellow or
black? And isn't ii crisp and brittle
and split and broken? And these ills
are due to the summer suns and
breeZes.
The Hatless Habit.
1t seems to be the fact that sun
long applied-is bad for the hair.
Hence the hatless habit of so many
in the summer is responsible for some
loss of hair
Everyone knows that sun bleaches
and burns the hair-so the hatless
summer has another evil TO it's score
Salt water, too. is hair destroying
in it's results. 1t makes the hair
sticky and brittle. Hence, surf and
IT. e. 4 10 Lofr
Any water, too frequently applied.
is bad for the hair. So fresh water
bathing and the frequent shampoo
taken to remove sea water, the dust
and SCOT and CRIME of travel, and the
heat of sultry days is responsible for
more hair loss and trouble.
But don't be discouraged-gentl
reader, not rollicking summer. Sum-
mer may do what she pleases, and
she will assuredly pay us another
long visit next year. But the gentle
reader, with sunburned, Salt-crisped.
dust-brittled hair, must not be dis
couraged, but must go to work to put
her hair back in the condition 1T
ought to be in.
How To Do IL.
To begin with. give the hair SEN
sible, careful shampoo. Let ii dry
naturally in the open, shaded air. III
you have an electric fan, you can
quicken the drying process with this.
But on no account allow your hair
TO be dried by one OF those hair-de-
stroying hot air dryers that are the
pride OF many hairdreSsers and the
ruination of so much healthy hair.
After it has dried thoroughly, rub
a little oil into its roots. Vaseline,
carefully rubbed in, will do, and kerr
osene ore crude petroleum oil is bet
ter still. But whatever oil you use.
rub il we'll into the scalp. The oil
and the massage which puts 1T into
the roots of the hair are both things
your poor, abused head needs
Rub more oil into your hair is
week, if the hair is much broken or
very brittle. And continue this treat
ment each week until you see results
in thicker and softer hair. In a month
give the hair another thorough sham
poo.
Velvet Hat Harmful
Don't think that because too much
sun is bad for the hair. little is not
a good thing Like pleasure or al
monds or money, a little is as health
full as too much is harmful SO oc-
casionally give the hair a short sun
bath. and every day give it as much
air as possible. 1t is pity, from the
point of view of hair health, that vel
vet hats are so fashionable; for any
sort of hat that causes the head to
perspire is bad Cor the hair, and vel
vet hats surely do this.
IT is a very good plan, when the
hair is in poor condition, TO change
your way Of arranging ii. Often the
strain caused by one way of arrang
ing the hair eventually breaks off
many of the hairs close TO the head.