St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1914-12-19
SINGEING THE HAIR.

l A0ON
up each month in articles in the daily
papers-and weekly and monthly
on beauty culture are conclusive evi.
dence that it is as natural for man
to desire to beautify the person as II
Is ito indulge in the illusions Of
hope" A sound mind in a sound
body sufiices the serious-minded mi
nority, but apparently the innumer.
able majority, il they had their way
would have a comedy body and take
their chances on any old kind Of a
mind, on the principle that it Is bet
ter to be good looking than wise, be-
cause more people have sight than
understanding. To decorate and
beautify the body is an Unborn pas
sion; the savage does it differently
from us, but when it comes to the
many manipulationsa and remedies
that are recommended for avoiding
wrinkles. giving the eyebrows an az
istocratic arch. coaxing the lashes to
be long and languorous, making the
ears pink and small or the nose
straight and thin, removing double
chin or taking the core out of the
Adams apple, we have nothing on
our uncivilized and supposedly more
ignorant brothers. The hair in par
ticular is the object OF all mankind's
cosmetic endeavors. When it comes
to civilized man he is universally en-
gagged in trying to save what he has
left or regr0w what he has lost.
Women, with few exceptions, 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 remedieg for the hair need
almost a Surge0n-Generaps catalog.
Vibratory and electrical treatments,
hair tonics that feed the hair roots.
as though they grew out of the scalp
like broom-sedge out Of an old field,
neat's-foot oil and crude kerosene,
massage and mango cures, all have
their futile trials. Among these our
particular topic now is singing the
hair. This is recommended to over
come splitting at the ends and to pre-
vent falling OF the hair, tie reason
for the latter being that 1t CLOSES
the pores and keeps the fluid in the,
hair. With the long heir of a We
man which has a tendency to split
At the ends, 1t is possible that sing
ing the tips may be Of some use: 1t
substitutes charred blunt end of
fused horn for one tapering to q point
Or cut clean across. But ever in
cases Of this sort it is less useful
than greasing lightly the hair, and
thus supplying the fat which is. lack
ing in such hair. For the hair Of
men, which is kept short, singing
IS not Of any use in preventin split
ing; hair which is not allowed to
grow to its natural length d oes not
split. unless it has deep-ses ted dis
,urbance for which there is no such
simple remedy OF course, ,ingeinr
he hair-ends in order to pre-, ent the
'uid in the hair from escapi az. like
zap from tree, is based on an en-
Ire, misconception Of the hairs |
structure and nutrition. The hair
Ices not contain any more sap than
buggy whip; It is not nourished
y any fluid In 1t, bnt by the blood |
'lasma that reaches only the hair
DOT. The hair above the skin sur
ace is a spine OF horn, which is even
lied from without, and singeing its
Fps has no effect whatever on either
Is nourishment or its growth. It Is
ertain. says The Journal of the
american Medical Association that
ingeing the hair is Of no value in
its fall; in fact, the only
alue the procedure has il to the
ealous hairdresser who gets his little
ee for doing ft--unless it is worth
quarter to the seeker after hair to
link he is doing something even II
9 is not.