Show ON COMBS 1 WRITER in the Medical Press Prenn Pr BB and andi tl i Circular of recent date presents a 0 argument nt against that well 1 known knowD article of 0 commerce the collu celluloid bid loid comb He calls can attention fo io the tact fact that women are frequently pain painfully painfully fully tully burned because the celluloid combs comb in la their hair catch fire In one case cane a young Oun girl who was cooking din dinner dinner ner ncr bent too close clo e to the fire In a moment there was wan a puff Urr a him hist hl JI and a abla bla blase e By the time help belP reached d her hershe hershe hershe she was wan eo IIO badly burned that months r elapsed before fore she recovered her health It ha has baa long been known flays ays the writer that dressing combs omba and nd other articles rUel of or like nature have hae been manu mann manufactured from iTom a modification of Run cotton otton From tine time to tim tta ti we 8 have hare Ye pointed out the possibility of fIl accident eat from the use of ot an article containing coot such uch an ingredient I Now It ap appears 2 pears pars that tb original patent having expired a va a number of imitation processes have sprung up and the pub lie is flooded with tJ 1 e from fromI compounds wada by I which render reader them more Aug hagero than those prepared under uDder the original o nl I patent Obviously seeing that the tI mere storage of guncotton is In restricted ree by b bhea heavy hea v penalties it to Is not fair or safe ate that makers should be permitted to place a slightly mo but bat actively dangerous modification on the market marketto to be used u ed by a section Ion of the public that has bin not the slightest notion n of Its IbI i composition and dangers dana This to Is in indeed indeed Indeed deed an a indictment of ot the celluloid comb Arhe r question ta is What are we I going to do about It ItI I The Herald appreciates the fact that I there are dangers in the tM celluloid comb to which the attention ao of the tile public should hould be directed but with ordinary care any celluloid article m on the mar market market ket except the nev u I condemned collar to Is perfectly safe ate As Asa a usual thing thins women oisen wo wearing celluloid l combs in th lr hair or 01 indeed any an another f other obtrusively prominent combs ba I do not stand around where there I dan danger I ger r of lire fire i iThe The cases c m In which Injuries have han boon bane L inflicted are rare ran Pro Proceeding I along the same senie lino Ue U a as the Use UseI I I Medical Press Prea and Circular man nearly i every article of female apparel could j I be condemned for nearly all an of ot them i i have bae caused at some ome time or o other or orIn orIn orIn f In some eom form or other to the 1 v wearer w from the long hat bat pin pm to the I I le l shoe |