Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14

soap-every particle of it-from the face
after shaving, and then sponge the face with
cool or cold water to close the gaping, irri-
tated pores. So may your youthful COM
plexion be long in the land.
Some of the reddest and most Dubious
noses in the world never peeked over the
edge of glass of alcohol in any form. They
genial barber, who bestowed upon them the
Order of the Ruby Nose with his hand while
entertaining them with the story of his life.
Also the barber should abandon the per-
nicious habit of pulling and pinching the
skin to present the nap of the beard most
conspicuously to the razor. This, by per-
uniting an extremely close shave, favors the
development of ingrowing hairs. The hair,
shorn short, and naturally sharp of point,
doubles upon itself under the skin, and bur-
rows right into the flesh,-an annoying and
painful procedure.
This affords the barber new field for
minor surgery; for he has become quite skill
full in removing these twisted hairs. This
come a hotbed of germs for no barber
thinks of sterilizing them after each opera
ton.
Women are quite as liable to blackheads
as men, from the fact that they submit them
selves to the pinchings, pulings, and haul
ings of masseuses, or apply frst-aid to their
own features, without taking the trouble to
sterilize their fingers and the area of opera
ton.
INSTANCES of eczema, erysipelas, and
even malignant constitutional blood dis
eases contracted in barber shops are not at
all uncc mmon. Why should they be? 1t
is seldom that victim of any of these dis
I,,t
and to medical man the strangest part of
this question is that so few out of possible
thousands develop infection. l myself have
repeatedly seen men with the well defined
eruption of the tertiary stage of constitu-
tional blood disease seat themselves uncon-
cernedly in BARRIERS chair, and have that
worthy proceed as though it was all in the
days work-which it probably was.
1t is enough to give heart failure to any
one who knows anything about the gravity
of the condition and the terrible risks run
by patrons who may follow such infected
individuals. The barber carefully avoids
cutting into papule,-I may say that for
him,-but the ultimate results are in the
Education alone will close the BARRIERS door
to the menace of these peripatetic disease
carriers.
Occasionally case of anthrax, or malig-
nant pustule with constitutional symptoms,
develops from septic barber operation.
This is rare condition, fortunately; but it
is due more to good luck than to good man.
agement that it is rare. 49, stf.
The indiscriminate use of chemical hair
dyes is responsible for more scalp troubles
and even illnesses than is generally known.
Perhaps the Congratulated sex suffer more
frequently from this form of poisoning than
do their crop-haired brothers; but if so they
usually say less about it. There are proba-
bly, one or two kinds of hair dye that are
harmless; but many hair dyes contain nj
trate of silver, or pyrogallic acid, and these
are extremely harmful to delicate scalp,
producing an acute inflammation which is
chronic and painful. Such a grave disease
as inflammation of the kidneys is frequent
result of using pyrogallic acid dyes upon
sensitive scalp. Better grow gray gracefully
as P. T. Barnum might have said-than to
run the risk of poisoning yourself.
AND speaking of poisons recalls that the
= committee on the prevention of blind
ness of the New York Association for the
Blind has recently brought suit against GER
tain manufacturers of Columbian spirits (the
common name for variety of wood alcohol.
This suit was brought after investigating
several cases of blindness from optic atrophy