"A WOMAN'S CROWN OF GLORY.'

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 353, 23 March 1889, Page 4

"A WOMAN'S CROWN OF GLORY.'

"Djd it never strike you." said a friend who sat bru&hingher "wicked splendour of hair," " what a very dusty and unplea&ant sort of a coronet, a woman's crown of glory is apt to be? A feather cluster is cleanly in comparison to a woman's hair that does not receive the regulation one hundred strokes of the brush every day." "Ihavo often intended to ask you the secrot of your glc>33y locks," said I, "and now suppose you tell we while I take your brush and act as maid." ''Thero is no secret, or if there is it all lies in the use of the brush. I know lots of girls who go to bed without undoing their hair at night. If they have any hair at all at thirty, they may be thankful. The hair should be released ftom all ics pins at night, shaken out, and vigorously brushed, first one side and then the other," beginning with at least fifty strokes and increasing. Do the same thing in the morning and you will want no other tonic. After brushing at night, braid tho hair in a loose braid. I

am never so fatigued as to omib this duty. A shampoo once a month will be quite in order, and it need not be given oftener if you ate careful about the brushing, and about wearing a dusfc cap if you have any household duties to perform in the way of sweeping and dusting. You can hardly act as your own barber, and if it is not convenient to secure the services of a professional, get somo friend, relative or servant to do it for yon. Beat an egg thoroughly and rub it well into the roots, vising a small nail-brush for the purposo, and parting the hair strand by strand until the scalp is well cleansed ; then rinse plentifully with lukewarm waterIf you have hair thar- is naturally moist, use a half Leaspoonful each of borax and glycerine in several quarts of rinse water ; if it is dry by nature, use the glycerine only. Wring as dryas porf&ible ; mop it softly with a towel until the moisture is nearly expelled, and then brush briskly with a "stiff brush. Of com;«e all this takes time," said my friend, with a dreamy sigh, " and thoreis nothing 1 long for so much as a maid when this work is to be performed."