Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1884 — Why Bleached Hair Is Going Ont of Fashion. [ARTICLE]

Why Bleached Hair Is Going Ont of Fashion.

“Some women rapidly lose memoryfail to recall faces or names, or both. They lose appetite and have to resort to beer or a stimulant; lose sleep, which is worse than all. They fall victims to insomnia in its most aggravated forms, and the last and most dreadful warning is the loss of eyesight; they become perfectly blind. They will attribute all these frightful sufferings to a hundred causes but the right one, and their husbands are being told all the time that the only blondine they use is a little soda, common alkali bar-soap, or salts of tartar. But finally, when almost bald, with red, watery eyes and constantly aching heads, they awake to a realizing sense of what they are doing to kill themselves byiinches to become a problematical beauty. All men do not admire yellow-haired women by any means. For my part, and I think the majority -of men think with me, woman is only worthy of admiration when just as nature left her, without tampering with it at all, no matter what her complexion. Besides, it is questionable taste in ladies of .correct life and standing to follow the mad pranks of those who, lost to all decency, would do anything to attract attention. Thev started hangs, and straightway all women cut off their front hair. ” “Well, you make this out a serious matter, to be sure. Have you enumerated all the dread results ?” “No; there is one I have been loath to speak of—lunacy! Yes, horrible as it may sound to you, the asylums are filling up with incurable maniacs brought to that pass by using hair washes and bleaches. This begins by nervous attacks periodically when in an unhealthy state. Then they begin to have hysterics more often; husbands are puzzled to know how to deal with a wife who hursts into tears at i the slightest provocation and fall right back on the floor or bed. It is a swift road to downright, gibbering insanity, for which science has not yet thought out a cure.” —Talk with a Physician.