Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — Health Beauty Hints [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Health Beauty Hints

By Katherine Morton

To begin with, if your hair is dry, harsh, given to letting unlovely wisps of uneven lengths stick out round your face, and at the nape of your neck, do not shampoo too frequently. Instead, shake equal parts of powdered orris root and cornmeal into it ortce a week, and then, with a soft, tine infants’ brush, take it all out again. Some women use merely dry starch and are satisfied when they see the powder that went in so white coming out a dark gray. They know that their hair has been cleansed. This process over, dip the finger tips In olive oil or rub them along a piece ot cocoa butter. Carefully and gently massage the scalp till every part has benefited by the .emollient. Then, take another soft baby’s brush (not the one that cleansed your hair), and brush each of the six strands into which you have divided your tresses many, many times.

The irregularities of length always found when weak or neglected hair is beginning to be strengthened by care can only be dealt with, almost hour by hour, after the following fashion: Have Innumerable tiny hairpins matching your hair. If that is dark, fine black pins will do. If it is extremely blond, you should purchase the tiny silvered invisible pins?—they can be procured. If your tresses are any of the various shades of brown, use bronze or gold invisible hAlrplris. Curl the recalcitrant locks and then skewer them to the longer and more solid masses with these pins. Of course, if you have to make a hasty toilet curling irons must be resorted to. But a soft piece of old muslin, or a kid curler—these are of various qualities, and the more expensive are many times worth the difference in price—will produce a more natural curl and one that stays' In longer. Some people are able to keep these straying wisps in pretty curls merely by steaming them. Others dampen their fingers just before they begin to dress in the morning and twist their little bits of hair round and round the. dampened fingers, leaving them thus twisted for half an hour. This produces the most natural and lasting curl of all. Further remedies for dry locks are the following emollients, sparingly used:

Bay rum \ ounces Spirits of ether.... ...........4 drachms Glycerine 1 drachm Salyclllc acid ......................4 ounces Alcohol .. ...4 ounces If this is massaged Into the scalp for a few minutes every night the hair will lose its hay-like appearance and become glossy and healthy looking. One pint witch hazel, one pint good whiskey, 5 cents’ worth tincture quinine and 5 cents’ worth tincture of cantharldes. All a few drops of clarified lemon juice, shake and bottle.