Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1896 — HAIR OF GREAT LENGTH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAIR OF GREAT LENGTH.

Nearly One Foot Lonser than Its Owner Is Tali. Mrs. I>. J. navis, of San Francisco, Cal., has the longest hair in the world. She is 5 feet 9 inches tall, and her hair is 6 feet 8 inches long. Her sisters also have very long hair. “I never brush my hair,” said Mrs. Davis, as she removed those long, coral pins that held great colls in place about her head so that her hair might be measured, “for the reason that I do not believe it is good for the hair. In fact I have demonstrated my belief to my own satisfaction by experimenting. When a girl I gave very little attention to my hair, and in consequence It did not grow at all. Sometimes I felt very much chagrined to see how much longer and prettier was the hair of all three of my sisters, but I was somewhat careless. When I became a woman I suddenly developed a desire to have long hair like theirs, and began to take the utmost care of what little I had. Every morning, and sometimes twice a day, I brushed it thoroughly, but it did not grow any better. Then I noticed that the brush, after the daily application to the hair, even when the latter had no tendency to fall out, would be filled with very fine hairs, and soon I realized that while the brushing had no effect upon the long hair It effectually ’ killed the new growth, and I decided'to stop. “Since then I have used nothing but a very coarse comb. Every morning I go over the hair thoroughly and carefully, removing every snarl until it la

as free and flowing as water. Then I braid It and coil It Into varied coiffures about my head. I never used cesmetics on my hair.”

LONGEST HAIR IN THE WORLD.