The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
FACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT
 THE HAIR

THE HAIk
 Cutting the hair does not make it grow faster. The truth is that hair that grows faster needs cut ting more frequently than hair that grows at the ordinary rate-which is one-half to three e-fourths Of an inch a month. Likewise shaving doesn't make hair or beard grow faster or heavier, but one with faster growing or heavier beard needs to shave more frequently. My friend Dr. c - regularly shay ed the hair from one arm for year or more. Then he stopped shaving. In a few months there was no difference in the hair on his two arms.
 Tall stories to the contrary not withstanding hair never grows ait CT death, nor does any other part of the body. When you're dead you're dead all over and dead things do not grow.
 There are 120,00O hairs on the average sealp-if you don't believe 1t, count 'em for yourself.
 Brushing is good for hair and scalp, combing is not
 The hair brush should be steriliz- ed by boiling, if it will stand boil ing. otherwise thoroughly washed with soap and water and allowed to dry in the sun, every time the hair is washed.
 Frequent use of water on the hair is harmful only in that it removes the natural Sebum or hair oil. II you apply to the scalp or hair few drops of suitable oil frequently wetSing does no harm. Plucking a hair or an eyebrow does not destroy it-a new hair appears in six or eight weeks, be- comes fully developed in three or four months. Plucking does no harm.
 Hair is not a hollow tube, does not bleed or ooze when cut, should never be singed or other wise subjected to greater heat than you would apply to your skin.
 Application of &ntiseptic or ger micidal preparations to the hair or l scalp is futile so far as correction or cure of dandruff or identified a dandruff "germ''-there is no good reason to believe dandruff is ln- fectious is character.
 Like the skin, the hair depends on general nutrition for it's health, vigor, growth and condition. No amount of doctoring, medication or "nourishing" stuff applied to scalp or hair can materially improve it's condition. If any such improve ment is possible it must come through the circulation through blood supply to the hair root, through internal metabolism, nu- | triton.
 In certain parts of the Great | Lakes basin farmers were unSuc- | ceSSful in wool growing. until it was discovered that the soil, water and l feed in those areas were extremely poor in iodine They began giving their stock an iodine ration to sup plement the feed and water supply of that essential element. There after they were successful in grow ing wool. Wool is hair. Incidental ly, the natural oil on wool Qanolin) mixed half and half with fresh castor oil makes the finest hair oil or skin oil for regular use when hair or skin is too dry.
 QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Thirty Seven Old? l I am 37 and feel fine when I am on my feet but can't turn a somersault without getting awfully dizzy. (Mrs. H. M. K) 1 AnsWer-Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for the pink I Slip-Invitation to the Somersaul- tauqua. It tells how and why you should roll 'em every day and come up smiling.
 PrederterminatiOn o Sex | Is it true that if the husband is more virile than the wife . or that some men have all girl babies or that {. (Mrs. B. M)
 AnSWer-No one can predetermine sex.
 BalOney
 Here is the reason why hospital will not permit the husband to re- main in the delivery room. Insur- ance companies fear the husband may faint, fall and injure himself and so the hospital might have a suit for damages. co. A
 AnsWer-That's lot of hooey I have stated the main reason here repeatedly-that the hospital people fear an intelligent husband might notice some of the atrocious breaches of the simple rules of asepsis and the like that occur in delivery rooms in shady institutions. Copyright 1945, Joiln F. Dille Co., figures. The war, no doubt makes