Year: 1876

A writer in Hdrper's Weekly says: Toget
and retain beautiful hair you must attend
to brushing it daily, occasionally washing it,
and periodically trimming it, and striving
at all times to keep the general health up
to the average.


Now as to brushing The skin of the
head, like that of every other part of the
body, is constantly being renewed internally,
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, indeed, 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. Two kinds of brushes
ought to be found on every lady's table, a
hard and soft. The former is first to be
used, and used well, but not too roughly !;
1t removes all dust, and acts like tonic on
the roots of the hair, stimulating the whole
capillary system to healthy action. After
ward use the soft brush-to give the gloss,
from which the morning sunshine will pre-
sently CLINT and CLEAN with a 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 very mildest and unperfumed
Avoid socalled hair-c cleansing fluids, and use
rain water filtered


The yolks Of two new-laid eggs are much
to be preferred to soap they make beauti-
tul lather, and when the washing is finish
ed, and the hair thoroughly rinsed in the
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 ten
der-and afterward brush. Be always care
full to have your brushes and combs per-
fectly clean and from grease, and place other
brushes on the table for friends of yours
who happen to be Macassarites.


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


1t will be seen that [ am no advocate for
oils and pomldes. My advice in all cases
is to do without them if you possibly can,
for by their clogging nature and over
stimulating properties they often cause the
hair to grow thin and fall off sooner than it
otherwise would. Let well alone.


One word in conclusion about dyes.
Avoid them if you are your own friend.
Hair dyeing is very satisfactory, as far as
dead hair is concerned, but on the living
head its perfect success is chemical i'm
possibility AS to hair restorers, those are
not simply stainers, but depend upon the
action of the light, chemically altering and
oxidizing the application after it has been
used-their incautious use, [ must add, is
fraught with great danger.