Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — Why Bleached Hair Is Going outs Fashion. [ARTICLE]

Why Bleached Hair Is Going outs Fashion.

“Some women rapidly lose memo® fail to recall faces or names, or b® They lose appetite and have to re® to beer or a stimulant; lose si® which is worse than all. They ® victims to insomnia in its most ag® vated forms, and the last and t® dreadful warning is the loss of ® sight; they become perfectly bl® They will attribute all these frigh® sufferings to a hundred causes but ■ right one, and their husbands are! ing told all the time that the only bfl dine they use is a little soda, com® alkali bar-soap, or salts of tartar, fl finally, when almost bald, with ® watery eyes and constantly achl heads, they awake to a realizing sel of what they are doing to kill tl® selves by inches to become a problß atical beauty. All men do not adnfl yellow-haired women by any meal For my part, and I think the majc® of men think with me, woman is ol worthy of admiration when justfl nature left her, without tampering wB it at all, no matter what her complex® Besides, it is questionable taste B ladies of correct life and standfl to follow the mad pranks of tbfl who, lost to all decency, wol do anything to attract attention. Tl started bangs, and straightway I women cut off their front hair.” I “Well, you make this out a seril matter, to be sure. Have you enul erated all the dread results ?” I “No; there is one I have been loath! speak of—lunacy! Yes, horrible a* may sound to you, the asylums are fl ing up with incurable maniacs broua to that pass by using hair washes al bleaches. This begins by nervous I tacks periodically when in an anheala state. Then they begin to have hi terics more often; husbands are pi zled to know how to deal with a w| who bursts into tears at the slight! provocation and fall right back on I floor Or bed. It is a swift road I downright, gibbering insanitv, I which science has not yet thought J a cure.” — Talk with a Physician. I