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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. ■mai 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 >X ; - x-.' ■ mm' 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 page bper >ecai; mpan cieut Rat io The Feminine Type of Hand Which Is Disappearing Among Women. file Stronger, More Masculine Hand Which Is Taking Its Place.