The Hattiesburg news., 1915-01-06
| TWELVE ARE DEAD
Continued From Paga OpaN
tins were given immediate attention
in nearby hospitals.

IN nearby hospitals.
When the fire started the subway
was smoky from blaze at Spring
street, which had just been extinguish-
ed Tor several minutes, during which
time it gained considerable headway.
GOVERNMENT HEALTH Bull ETlN
Singeing The Hair.
The reams of paper that are used
up each month in articles in the daily
papers-and weekly and monthly pa
! person beauty culture are conclusive
evidence that it is as natural for man
| to desire to beautify the person as il
is ito indulge in the illusion of hope.''
A sound mind in sound body suffices
the serious-minded minority, but ap.
parently the innumerable 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 peo-
pie have sight than understanding
To decorate and beautify the body Is
an inborn passion; the savage does it
differently from US, but when it comes
to the many manipulations and rem
edies that are recommended for avoid
ing wrinkles, giving the eyebrows an
arlstocratic arch, coaxing the lashes
to be long and languorous, 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 particu,
lar is the object of all mankind's cos.
metic endeavors. When it comes to
civilized man he is universally en-
gagged in trying to save what he has
left or regrow what he has lost. Wom-
en-, with few exceptions, do not be-
come bald, but all women, in their
opinions, are theatened with that un-
speakable calamity; men not only may
get bald, but large number of them
are already so. And thus the popular
remedies for the hair need almost a
Surgeon-General's 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 singeing the hair. This
is recommended to overcome splitting
at the ends and to prevent falling Of
the haid, the reason for the latter be-
ing that it "closes the pores and keeps
the fluid in the hair" With the long
hair of woman which has a tendency
to split at the ends, it is possible that
singeing the tips may be of some use;
1t substitutes a charred blunt end Of
fused horn for one tapering to point
or cut clean across. But even in cases
of this sort it is less useful than greas-
ing lightly the hair and thus supplying
the fat which is lacking in such hair
For the hair of men, which is kept
short, singeing is not of any use in
preventing splitting; hair which is not
allowed to grow to its natural length
does not split unless it has deep
seated disturbance for which there is
no such simple remedy. OF course,
singeing the hair-ends in order to pre-
vent the fluid in the hair from escap-
| ing, like sap from tree, is based on
an entire misconception of the hairs
structure and nutrition. The hair does
not contain any more sap than bug
gy whip; it is not nourished by any
fluid in it, but. by the blood plasma
that reaches only the hair root. The
hair above the skin surface is spine
of horn. which Is even oiled. from
without, ard sinseing rs tips has ne
effect whatever q either its nourish
ment or its ssrowth 3 = certain, say.
The Journal of ~ American Medica
Association that <|n<@lnG ~ hair il
of no value in . c1llne ~ TALL; Il
II fact, the only valu( " l<5cedure ha