The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-12-21
SINGING THE HAIR.
Does Not Prevent Its Falling Out Nor
Serve Other Useful Purposes.

The reams Of paper that are used up
each month in articles in the daily pa
pers-and weekly and monthly papers
on beauty culture are conclusive evil
dence that it is as natural for man to
desire to beautify the person as it is ito
indulge in the illusions of hope" A sound
mind in a sound body suffice the serious
minded minority, but apparently the in
Vulnerable majority, if they had their
way, would have a comely body and take
their chances on any old kind OF a mind,
on the principle that it is better to be
good looking than wise, because more
people have sight than understanding
To decorate and beautify the body is an
Unborn passion; the savage does it differ
emily from us, but when it comes TO the
manipulations and remedies that are
recommended for avoiding wrinkles, Civ
ing the eyebrows an aristocratic arch,
coaxing the lashes TO be long and lam
gorous, making the ears pink and small
or the nose straight and thin, removing
a double chin or taking the core out of
the Adams apple, we have nothing on
our uncivilized and supposedly more ig
norant brothers. The hair in particular
is the object of all mankind's cosmetic
endeavors, When il comes TO civilized
man he is universally engaged in trying
to save what he has left or regrow what
he has lost. Women, with few excep-
tions do not become bald, but all women,
in their opinions, are threatened with
that unspeakable calamity; men not
only may get bald, but large number
OF them are already so. And thus the
popular remedies for the hair need al
most surgeon generals catalog. vi
bratory and electric treatments, hair ton.
les that feed the hair roots. as though
they grew out of the scalp like broom /
sedge out OF an old field, meats. foot oil !
and crude Kerosene, massage and mango 1
cures, all have their futile trials
Among these our particular topic now
is singing the hair.
This is recommended TO overcome split 1
ting at the ends and 20 prevent falling
Of the hair, the reason for the latter
being that it CLOSES the pores and keeps
the fud in the hair With the long
hair of woman which has a tendency
b split at the ends, il is possible that
'lngeing the tips may be OF some use;
L substitutes a charred blunt end Of
hHtA Hulu tbi Nut AdYfIlik TO point
,r cut clean across But even ii eases
Vt this sort il j. less useful than greas-
ne lightly the hair and thus supplying
Inc fat which is lacking IN such hair
For the hair Of mon, which Is kept short
iugeing il not OF any use in preventing
plitting; hair which il not allowed 20
row 20 is natural length does not split
lnless il has deep. seated disturbance
or which there is no such simple rene.
~ OF course. smuggling the hair-ends
n order 20 prevent the fluid IN the hair
rom escaping like sap from a tree. is
,ascd on an entire misconecption Of the
airs structure and nutrition. Tie hair
.oes not contain any more sap than
,uegy whip IL is not uourished bY any
'uid in H. bat by the blood plasma that
caches only the hair root The hair
hove the skin surface is spine ~
orn which i even oiled from without.
nd -ugcing IL tips has no effect what
yer on either its nourishment 81 its
roWth u Is certain saws the journal
{ the American Medical association that
in0eing the hair Is 81 no value Is pre-
emitting IL fan IN fact the only value
be- procedure has Is 20 The zeal0us hair
rcsss1 who gcts his little fee for doing
unless i d worth q quarter - TIRE
seker after hair - think b. g doing
lmethiug even 81 he j. not