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Microscopic Examination of Hair-
Dressers’ Brushes, etc., Show
Where We Get Dandruff,
TOU have dandruff? Your hair brushes and combs, aud the
' barber or your hair dresser barber's hair clipper. JDCUQTTCSS
probably bestowed this mis- "Ring worm of the beard Is a con
ns on you. taglous disease which disintegrates V f \
our hair is getting thin? You, the hair of the face and neck, with CHlCL L ft@TT
all likelihood, have the barber to inflammation of the skin. It runs a
nk for this, too. chronic course, Is hard to treat, and r V* I •
ou have your hair singed to may result In permanent baldness. £ ft.lTl.QfS
savs your hair? A perfect This Is commonly known as 'barber’s *0 **
The Common-to-All Hairbrush,
Which Has Recently Been Exam
ined Under the Microscope by
Scientists, with Very Disquieting
Results.
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out of the hair and the production
of a perfectly bald spot, smooth,
usually circumscribed, and circular
patches.
Of course the barber does not mean
to be a clearing-house tor skin and
scalp diseases, and doesn't even know
that he Is. He will even, In some
barber shops, point to a little steri
liser for Instruments and brushes.
But Just watch the Implements he
uses on you The brush and combs
are Just as they came from the last
man’s head. It may be that the razor
is dipped Into some disinfecting solu
tion, hut watch where It goes next—
straight to the strop—whose greasy,
germ-infected surface has never been
disturbed by any germicide.
M. Langlals, a French scientist, ob
tained 7,000 bacteria from a razor
after It had been rinsed In cold
water and 26,000 after It had been
stropped. A drop or two of water
taken from a barber’s shaving brush
supplied the Investigator with 160,000
bacteria!
When the barber causes your face
to bleed he quickly touches the wound
with a bit of alum w other styptic
substance to stop the bleeding. This
same alum has, of course, touohed
every other bleeding spot the barber
has ever caused.
But the barber will tell you that
alum is a germ-killer. As a matter
of fact It is nothing of the kind. Dr.
Remlinger has obtained 66,000 bac
teria from the point of a barber’s
styptic pencil!
The barber’s trouble is that he has
never made a study of his business.
The barber, not so many generations
ago, was also the dentist and surgeon
of the community. In those days
he took his business more seriously
and studied the profession as well as
one could study In those days.
Now the surgeon has made all hls
progress by learning to keep his
operating room, hls Instruments and
himself absolutely clean, surgically
clean, sterile. The dentist’s business
has also become a more or less
learned profession. People of sense
nowadays will not have anything to
do with a dentist who does not wash
hls hands and sterillM hls instru
ments before treating any patient. A
reputable dentist’s office is Immacu
late, and everywhere one sees a bat-
ery of devices for antisepsis and gen
eral cleanliness.
The surgeon and the dentist are
perpetually studying about germs
and the way to thwart them. The
barber Is In the same frame of mind
he was In a hundred years ago. The
barber knows nothing about germs
The Barber Gets a New Supply of
Microbes from the Strop
Every Few Minutes.
will then give your head a rob, and,
if possible, a shampoo. In case the
shampoo washes out a great many of
the germs, he never omits to re-lnfect
you all over again with his comb and
brush before he lets you go.
Drs. Jackson and McMurtry, In
their standard book, “Diseases of the
Haiir,” say:
"If the laity only realized that
dandruff, alopsola, favus, ringworm,
impetigo, sycosis and contagious
blood diseases are frequently spread
by the barber it would see to it,
for Its own protection, that certain
commonsense rules of hygiene were
enforced. If the barber himself real
ized hls responsibility, he, for his
own interest, would enforce the
same rules of hygiene.
“Sycosis, a disease chiefly affect
ing the bearded portions of the face,
is characterized by an eruption of pa
pules, pustules and nodules (various
kinds of pimples) by patches and
crustlngs. It causes a sensation of
pricking or burning. This disease Is
caused by the staphylococcus aureus,
a micro-organlem. This micro-organ
ism is often found on the normal skin
and when hot towels and clone shav
ing take place, these micro-organ
isms And their way under the skin.
“Hot towels diminish the skin’s re
sistance, which gives these germs a
chance to get to work. The dls
ease Is often spread by the shaving
brush, towel and any other instru
ment found In barber shops. In Ger
many several small epidemics were
traced to one barber shop.”
The eminent skin authorities Bes-
nier and Doyon believe that alope
cia areata is a contagious disease
that is spread by barber shops, es
pecially by the hair clipper. In this
disease there Is a constant falling
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Every Time a Woman Goes to the Hair-Dresser She May Be Infceted
with Microbes of Half a Dozen Diseases, and Gather In
fection Which Will Produce Baldness.
and laughs at them. If you try to before the ligature was Invented,
enlighten him he brings you a bottle The’ theory Is all wrong, ae the hair
^ . . contains no fluid whatever,
of perfumed liquid and doses some ^ ^ ^ , thlie8 ^ th .
on your face and head. He usually genera i hea lth of the body the latter
thinks a hot towel is a sterllant. should be maintained in good condi
To offset the ravages of the dand- tion by a wise conformity to the
ruff germ with which he Infects you, ^ wsof hea,t *- By th * £c>dv
^ Z . j blnation of the hygiene of the boay
he offers some such remedy as singe- wUh that of the halr> lt la possf ble
ing the hair. Regarding the barber s f or even on® who Is predisposed to
simple faith in this proceeding, Jack- premature baldness to ward off the
son and McMurtry say: evil day for years. And one who
“Of all the foolish proceedings comes of a strong-haired family
this Is one of the most foolish. It is should, as a rule, not become bald
an old method recently revived, and or have any essential diseases of the
it is good only for the barber, as it hair.”
puts a few extra cents in hls pocket. Next Sunday this paper will print
The theory for Its use Is that the another article telling some dl'*co v ® r "
hairs are tubes and that by singeing leg about hair-dressers and explain-
their ends the escape of the nutrl- Ing how barbers and balr-dressers
tious fluid is prevented, just as ar- can stop Infecting their customers
teries were singed to close their ends with hair, skin and other diseases.
How the Modern Woman’s Hands Are Changing—and the Reasons Why
T O say that a man has a hand “like a lady"
no longer has the significance it once had.
Woman's hands are becoming more mas
•uline every day. The soft, delicate, well-tapered
hand so long characteristic of femininity Is be
coming scarcer.
The disappearance of the feminine type of
hand is not difficult to account for. Woman s
hands are changing because her habits have
changed. Our hands are modelled by the uses
to which they are put.
Fifty years ago the woman who used her
hands for anything other than the simplest and
lightest kind of task was the great exception.
Then piano playing was perhaps the most stren
uous form af manual exercise in which the aver
age woman indulged.
To-day women young women at any rate—
indulge in outdoor sports almost to the same ex
tent, if not with the same skill, as men. Golf and
tennis particularly are growing more popular with
women every day. In the colleges and schools
the number of female devotees to these games
Is not very far behind that of the males propor
tionately.
Rowing and fishing have their female follow
ers, too, and while bicycling no longer enjoys the
popularity-it did either with men or women when
the craze was at its height, ten or fifteen years
ago the number of women riders was enc ioua.
an artist say to his wife ‘Your hand—tt is «
woman In itself.’ And you feel Its femininity -
The change which has been brought is
woman’s hands as a result of changing condi
tions has in no way lessened their beauty. Only
now we are apt to find suggestions of strength
which before we looked for only in the hand*
of men.
Women have become more independent !■
their views and their enlarged opportunities
have been reflected In the shaping of thett
hands. The difference will be even more marked
In future generations than it Is [to-day to*
woman’s struggle for Independence has become
acute only within the past fifty years or so, and
its full effect on her physical characteristic
will be more apparent later on.
Daniel Chester French, the sculptor, who be
lieves that Miss Lawton's hands are ideal in con
tour, expression and dramatic power, and has
frequently used her as a model in Ms work, has
a great deal of admiration for the woman who
knows the dramatic value of the hand.
“The beauti ul hand,” he explained, "does not
necessarily me^m the hand that conforms abso
lutely with the measurements usually regarded
as standard, any more than the beautiful face
means the face that is correct according to classic
ideals.
“The beautiful hand la the hand which is ex
pressive. Browning, In one of his poems, has
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The Feminine Type of Hand Which Is Disappearing
Among Women.
file Stronger, More Masculine Hand
Which Is Taking Its Place.