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Show , - CI - Woman's World, D1L Specially Prepared for Our Feminine Beadera. ABOUT THE CARE OF , j A LITTLE GIRL'S HAIR. J; 1 ! Clarion Martineau In Chicago Tribune.) I ; : The question of hair is as important to the little maid as to the grown-up f one. I , The little girl of 6 finds her hair thin I and soft and with or without curl as nature may have endowed her. I The first troubles which she experi- . i ences come from dust and from the I . matting of the hair. Then, too, her I head is often sun streaked and the hair I ' ' has a tendency to lie in long, straggly ' prettily. t i ' A little girl's hair should never be washed in ammonia nor should it have 1 ! a chemical of any kind put upon it. 1 ' ! Even boracic acid is bad and baking i ' ; soda, which is so necessary for the I grown-up head, is positively injurious i V to the hair of the little maid. . 3 The hair should be. shampooed not I 1 J oftener than once in two weeks, and f - the best shampoo is that of soap jelly i y and hot water. Make the soap jelly I by shaving a cake of pure soap into a i pint of "hot water. . Let stand upon I f the back of the . stove until the soap . j : melts. Remove and put into a wide I mouthed bottle until wanted. Add a I tablespoonful to the hot water in which I the child's head is to, be washed. Do not use. water that is too warm. I Be sure upon this matter and test it I by thrusting not your hand but your I arm In the water. It should be only i . . v warm enough to be comfortable. Hot I -water injures the young roots. Rinse i . " the hair well in warm water, using a i ; spray for the purpose, and do not dry I In the sun, but dry by shaking the hair I out and fanning it. This will keep f me scalp clean and neaitny. I cleanincTthe SCALP. ) The little maid should not have dand- i ruff in her head. But if this appears ; It should be removed by the soap t shampoo. After the hair is well dried I a little olive oil should be rubbed into the roots in such a way that the hair I " is not made greasy, i Dandruff comes from an irritation of ! the scalp and the least thing in that t line will cause it. It may be no more 1 than the touching of the comb to the I scalp and it may be nothing heavier I than the wire brush, yet it causes an ! irritation and dandruff will follow-. ! i Do not touch a little girl's scalp with I ; the comb, but in using it lift the hair I gently and comb out softly without in- I Juring the scalp in any way. i . The fine comb and the wire brush' are I not intended for the child's head and I you cannot be too cautious in using i either. The rootlets are entirely too young and too tender to admit of the i i I severe implements which are Inflicted with or without impunity upon the s heads of older people, and evil results are sure to follow, s The little girl's hair should not be combed out any oftener than is absolutely, ab-solutely, necessary, and certainly the combing can be' all condense into the morning . hairdressing and the after-- after-- noon straightening of the hair. Re member that each time you run the ! i crTY thrMieli tliA"lnpl-o irrrn Vtrinc on-air j a few hairs, and this constant pulling out must tend to weaken the roots and I ruin the constitution of the hair. . j In the matter of dressing the child's head, there must also be care exercised. exer-cised. The hair should never be twist- I ed tightly and hairpins should not be : ! used. A narrow ribbon will hold the I hair and it is really all that is neces i sary. . ? The cutting of a child's hair is a f vexed and much debated question. The old-fashioned idea was to "shingle" the head and keep it so until a kttle girl had reached the age of twelve, after -which the hair was allowed to grow. i CUTTING THE HAIR. But it is doubtful if our foremothers ' ; had any better hair by this method i and very doubtful if the old women of today boast of better tresses than will grace the heads of those who are being treated by modern methods. Scientists of today argue that a child's hair is injured by being cut, and they maintain that the best heads of hair are those to which nc shears have ever been applied, j j ' One of their arguments is that hair grows from the roots, not from the ends, and that the roots are injured by the constant clipping of the ends. They say, ao, that there Is a fluid In each hair, and that this escapes s when the hair is cut, and so the root I is weakened. I The fashion of clipping the ends at I each full moon, in old-fashioned super- I slition, is ridiculed by these up-to-date personages, who say that the hair chould be clipped only when it is so broken as to be disfigured. If the little girl has hair with broken I . ends she can go to the hairdresser and have the ends cut off, an inch or so be- I 4 tng removed. Or the operation can be I performed at home. But there must i not be a particle of alcohol put upon I ': the had. nor must it be spattered with ' bay rum. The hair can be clipped upon a towel and the ends well brushed aft--' erward. If the little girl complains of head-' head-' : ache and of the heat of her hair she can ! have it cut off. But the practice of I cutting the hair must not Je kept up, if it is ever intended to grow long, and the little girl the next year may complain com-plain of it. If the hair be tied loosely with rib-' rib-' . bons and the neck cooled by the way 'be hair is lifted away from it there will be no complaint of the heat of the hair, for a child's hair is light and is nt f the same heating quality of hair of older growth. VENTILATING THE SCALP. The ventilating of the scalp is something some-thing that cannot be neglected. Once a week, when the hair is heated from the head, it should be lifted and shaken out as though it were being dried. To ventilate the hair, take the strands in the fingers and lift them, giving them a little shake. Lift the hair, lock by lock, in this manner, until the air V reaches evry inch of the scalp. Go over the whole head, lifting and shaking shak-ing and letting the air into the roots. The massaging of the scalp is a good thing if a little oil be used. Castor oil V is the best of all oils, but it is apt to be offensive, and for this reason olive tuted. The scalp is taken inch by inch, and the oil is rubbed into the roots. . If the hair shows a tendency to be thin' on top, a gentle pounding of the scalp will sometimes stimulate the roots. Part the hair, lift the hands so that the back o,the hand comes down upon the scalp, and. ever so gently, go over the whole head wherever the hair . seems to be thin. -; If the little girl's hair is too straight ? for beauty it can be waved, but before doing it up it should be lightly moistened moist-ened with lukewarm water. Do not wet the roots, and let the hair be slightly slight-ly dampened. Do' not really wet it but moisten the palms of the hand and rub them over the hair. This will make a sufficient moisture to give the s wave. , ,The chll(1's hair should be done up on j kld wrappers or on soft paper Rags will answer the purpose, but there should be nothing done that will pull the hair by the roots. The wraDDer? rtould be tied some inches frm 5, ' an? not screwed tightly to the scalp, as is too often done. j It Is far better for the little girl's 1 head to let nature alone, in the mat-! ter of waving, and not try to fiorce it into an unnatural curl, for the child's head is pretty enough if the hair.be kept light and clean, and if it be made to grow thick and is tastefully dressed. Curling must always injure it more or less, for it surely breaks the hair. To Anxious Readers. "Will you kindly teii me how I can treat superfluous hair on the upper lip without the use of electricity?" asks a subscriber. Try pumice stone. Moisten it in lukewarm water and rub it on the upper lip so as to irritate the skin. Repeat once a day until you have Miss T. S. w. You can have the moles removed. There are people who make a business of taking off facial blemishes. One way, now being tried, is to simply shave off the mole. . The work must be done by a, physician, who takes his knife and cuts off the excrescence. ex-crescence. It is done in a second and is not painful. A mole is sensitive if pulled or irritated, irri-tated, but it can be cut off without pain, or with but little. Of course, it is done by a practicing physician, who understands having the knife perfectly perfect-ly antiseptic. If the mole is of the kind that is imbedded in the skin you can remove the hairs by pulling them out. Repeat once in three weeks or as often as they appear. Bleach the mole to a light shade. "How can I take superfluous hair off my arms? They are covered with a heavy growth that makes it impossible to wear sho t sleeves," asks a constant reader. This is one of the most annoying an-noying of all troubles. Get pure peroxide perox-ide of hydrogen and wash the arms with it. The object is to bleach the hair upon the arms to a light shade. - amuwuiii in me peroxide and use frequently. You will in time ruin the roots of the hair and the arms will grow bald. Meanwhile the hair will be light in tone and will be much less unsightly. A sufferer writes: "Please tell me how to close the pores in my nose. They are large and open and look' unpleasant. un-pleasant. I have been much pleased at the improvement in my complexion. It is clear and the pimples have all gone." For this you must diet. Eat nothing greasy for awhile. While you are doing this you must bathe the nose thouroughly but without pressure with warm water, in which there is a little of the tincture of benzoin. The proportion pro-portion would be as ten drops to a , quart of water. For a daily wash use powdered borax and rose water. Take a tablespoonful of borax and a half a pint of rose water. Use nightly. A good complexion soap has been asked for by several readers. Take a cake of pure soap, whether it be cas-tile cas-tile or an oil soap. Shave it into a cup set in hot water. While it is melting add half a teaspoon of borax and six drops of tincture of benzoin and a lump of pure mutton tallow as large as half an egg. Take off the stove and let cool. When nearly cold add six drops of oil of rose geranium. Pour into a mold or mold with the hands. This w ill make a large clear cake. Would you tell me a' single good way your columns how old a girl should be before wearing corsets. I am 12 years old, but am the size of a girl of 14 or 15. Are girdles better than corsets? Would you tell me t single good way to wash the face and whether to use warm Or cold water? Some people say cold water invites blackheads, while warm water invites wrinkles. Somev time will you also write a chapter on blackheads?" writes a young friend. Girdles are best until you have stopped growing. You can then wear corsets without Injury. , If you put them on now have them loose, but really I would stick to the girdle or to a corset specially made for growing girls. -'.-, Wash the face with hot water at night before going to bed and rub in a little skin food lightly. This will keep i your skin fair and clear. It is true that cold water invites blackheads. "Women Love Ugly Men. There was, perhaps, as much truth" as boasting In the statement of John Wilkes, the famous London alderman and chairman of British electors. "Ug-' ly as I am, if I can have but a quarter of an hour's start, I will' get the better of any man, however good looking, in the graces of any woman." Of Wilkes' abnormal ugliness there was never any question, for is it not recorded that the "very children in the street ran away affrighted at the sight of him?" And yet his powers of fascination were so great that "ladies of beauty and fashion fash-ion vied with each other for his notice, no-tice, while men of handsome exterior and all courtly graces looked enviously or.. There were, it is said, few beauties of the day whose hand Wilkes might not have confidently hoped to win, and when he led Mary ' Mead to the altar he made a wife of one of the richest and most lovely women of her time. " 'Beauty and the Beast,' they call us," Wilkes once said to his friend. Potter, "and I cannot honestly find fault with the description." Jean Paul Marat, whose name will always be associated with the evil history his-tory of the French revolution, was notoriously no-toriously the ugliest man of his day in Paris. When this reputation reached his ears, Marat is said to have remarked, re-marked, "But why limit my supremacy supre-macy to Paris?" and, indeed, the re-' striction was much too modest. And i yet. in his earlier days, when he ,was the most popular of court doctors, his very ugliness seemed to exercise siifch a fascination over aristocratic ladies that they crowded his consulting rooms In order to catch a glimpse of and to exchange words with him uor the flimsiest pretexts of imagiir py ailments. ail-ments. XV- The studied Indifference witm which he treated alike their charms' and their flattery only made them the more insistent, in-sistent, until he declared to a friend that he would have to fly from Paris to escape the persecution of "his fair admirers. Still more remarkable was the story told a few years ago of one of the most beautiful of American heiresses, who conceived a romantic attachment for one of the freaks of a traveling show and persisted in marrying him in spite of all the efforts of her friends and relations. This singular object-of her affections masqueraded under the title of "the man-monkey, the ugliest man In the world," and by common consent he had an excellent claim to the title. "A Poor Old Maid." What sense there is in calling an unmarried woman above thirty "poor i old maid" we never could understand. And yet people who ought to know better so speak of her. ' Why, an old maid is the most independent inde-pendent person on the footstool. The common run of events which we c troubles never come near her. She stands on a sort of eminence among married women and looks on calmly while they bring their children through teething, and mumps, and measles, and chicken-pox and croups and she never realizes how significant goose-grease and catnip tea and syrup of squills may be to them. ; She can go to bed in peace at night and not sit up watching for a delinquent delin-quent husband to come home some time in the small hours, and find the keyhole of the door lost. She does not have to keep awake to prevent any male man from going to bed with his heels where his head ought to be. She can get up when she feels like it, without having somebody yelling out to her in the middle of the night: "Come, lazy-bones, I want my breakfast! break-fast! I've got to go away early!" Her serene atmosphere is not disturbed dis-turbed by cigar smoke. She has not learned to shudder at the sound of the word "buttons." She has no care of old boots and coats, to keep them out of the parlor. She is in no danger of being left a widow for the whole town to comment on the length of her veil and watch her every time she crosses a man's pathway, path-way, and tell each other she is looking out for a second husband! The thousand and one petty cares and worries of housekeeping she need, not be troubled with unless she chooses, and if there is nobody to praise her, there is certainly nobody to blame her. |
