CARING FOR THE HAIR 1 1 1 



their looks. Indeed, a woman without hair on her head 

 looks about as queer as a doll without her curly wig, 

 yet there are women who are entirely bald. 



I once knew a woman who was so ill that she lost 

 every hair on her head. It came out by the handful, 

 and at the same time her eyelashes and the hairs of her 

 eyebrows dropped out too. 



To conceal her loss she covered her head with a wig 

 and painted her eyebrows the color of her false hair. 

 Unfortunately she could do nothing for her eyelashes, 

 so her eyelids had to go like plain, untrimmed curtains. 



Every woman of every nation and tribe likes to have 

 a fine head of hair. Even a man seems to like it better 

 when there is hair on the top of his head, and I suppose 

 a baldheaded football player would have a pretty hard 

 time of it. The question for us all, then, is how to get a 

 fine head of hair and how to keep it. 



Most important of all is the healthy scalp, and very 

 often its health depends upon how we treat it. We can 

 do two things to help make it vigorous. 



1. Keep it clean. 



2. Brush the hair every day until the scalp 

 feels warm. 



Most heads need washing about twice a month, but 

 heads are like hands in this respect, for the kind of work 

 we do makes a difference in the amount of washing that 

 is needed. A child often needs the wash once a week. 



