Show MOTHER MOTH RELUCTANT 1 TO SEE PRETTY BABY GETTING DARKER HAIR HAI Bring your our problems about diet did general central care and nd management ol of ot children to Myrtle Meyer Edred Your questIons will be answered rt promptly if you win send lend a I. I self addressed 3 cent stamped tamped envelope with nUh your letter leU to Mm Mu Eldred I ii care of the Baby and nd department of thU newspaper pu By IE MYRTLE ELDRED It Is hard for any parent to cher c ae her baby outgrow his beauties beauties to to see ace sec curly cury haired pInI pInk che cheeked keil rosebuds develop int Into t scrawny girls with large front t t and pimples i. i But here J Is the mother of a no ver ve young baby who is meeting the ve vcr first change with reluctance I 1 have a a darling little girl months of or age She weighs 24 pounds has 12 teeth and Is 32 inches tall taU She is la a good baby though of course she has lias her ner moments of but badness badness but she is isso Isso Is Is' so so pretty now with her blond blonde curls dark lashes and d deep ep bl blua e i eyes My problem is whether there Is any way way way-to to keep the We baby's hair blonde without injury to scalp or hair I 1 have been rubbing her scalp with olive oil oU and though It Is darkening her hair I dont don't think this Is entirely responsible for It Ago Ao itself Usel darkens all hair But Butas Butas as olive oil Is one method of hurry hurry- ing lag the so process process so it is said though I cant can't pr prove ve It it-I it I would hardly suggest sug aug gest that you continue it since you arc Intent on just the opposite re result re sult suit ut 1 Lemon juice used in the rinse w wa water ter ler is considered to be a harmi harmless it method of of keeping light tints In lit blonde hair But other th than ir 1 this the only method of keeping keepIn Hair flair light would be to use a bleach and to use any such artificial fit agent on a baby's h hair ir would seem to me meto to be bad taste If not nol harmful Most bleaching agents are considered considered con con- J to tobe Ibe drying to the al but I am not a beautician and so sc make no no pretense of telling y you what actual effect it would have hav But it il seems to me me just good sens sense sens to keep a small childs child's hair cl clean a l well cut and well ell brushed attractive attra tive in Itself not because of I Its color Our h hair ir color usually blends with our skins an and to my y notion there ar arc few such ide ideal J combinations as as deep blue cyc a fair air skin and dark hair tt You may have our leaflet Care Cari of Childrens Children's Hair for a 3 cent stamped self addressed envelope lop J Jand and I should put some such program program pro pro- gram of health care into effect a and d not follow fonow such a wisp will a as a the effort to retain the color of of's a small baby's hair Into the growing growing- up period J 1 it II |