Year: 1876

A writer IN Harper's Ba=dr sayS-TC
60 and retain beautiful hair you must
attend to daily brushing it, occasionally
washing it, and periodically trimming il
and striving at all times to keep the
general health up to the average.


Now as to brushing. The skin oi
the head, like that of every other part
of the body, is constantly being renew
ed internally, and throwing off minute
scales externally, and these are removed
by means of the body brush. But it is
not so easy to brush the hair as one
might imagine. Few hair-dressers, in
deed, know very much about it. The
proper time for the operation, then, is
in the morning, just after you have come
out of your bath, provided you have not
wetted your hair Twokinds of brushes
ought to be found on every lady's toilet
table, hard and soft. The former il
first to be used we'll, but not too rough
ly; it removes all dust, and acts like a
tonic on the roots of the hair, stimulat-
ing the whole capillary system to
healthy action. Afterward use the soft
brush-to give the gloss from which
the morning sunshine will presently
CLINT and CLEAN with glory that no
Macassar oil in the world could initiate.
Whence this gloss? you ask. Why,
from the sebaceous glands at the root Of
the hair, natures own patent pomade,
which the hard brush does not spread.


Secondly-One word on washing the
hair. This is necessary occasionally,
to Thoroughly cleanse both head and
hair. One or two precautions must be
taken, however. Never use soap if you
can avoid it; if you do, let it be the
mildest and unperfumed. Avoid So
called hair-cleansing fluids, and use
rain-water filtered.


The yolks of two new laid eggs are
much to be preferred to soap; they make
o beautiful lather, and when the wash
ing is finished, and the hair thoroughly
rinsed in the purest rain-water, you will
find when dry that the gloss will not be
destroyed, which an alkali never fails
to do. The first water must not be
very hot, only just warm, and the last
perfectly cold. Dry with soft towels
but do not rub till the skin is tender
and afterward brush. Be always care
full to have your brushes and combs
perfectly clean and free from grease,
and place other brushes on the table for
friends of yours who happen to be Ma
cassarites.


Pointing the hair regularly not only
prevents it from splitting at the ends,
but renders each individual hair more
healthy and less attenuated-if I may
apply the term to hair, and, moreover,
keeps up the growing process, which
otherwise might be blunted or checked.
Singeing the tips of the hair has also q
beneficial effect.


It will be seen that am no advocate
for oils or pomades. My advice, in all
cases, is to do without them if you pos
sibly can, for by their clogging nature
and overstimulating properties they
often cause the hair to grow thin and
fall off sooner than it otherwise would.
Let them alone.


One word in conclusion, about dyes.
Avoid them if YOU be your own friend
Hair dyeing is very satisfactory, as fal
as deed hair is concerned, but on tie
living dead, its perfect success is a
chemical impossibility. AS to hair re.
storers, those that are not simply
stainers, but depend upon the action ol
the light chemically altering and oxi-
diziug the application after it has been
used-their incautious use, I must add,
is fraught with great danger.