PERMANENT WAVES.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19904, 5 June 1936, Page 5

PERMANENT WAVES.

‘ STRETCH TO THE HAIR. l l (Times Air Mail.) t LONDON. May 13. t Question to women: \\'hat happens to your hair when you have it. per—‘nnlnently \\m‘ed or set? The answer mine from Professor \\'. ’l‘. .\s‘tbur)’ when he was. talking to llueturs from over twenty ennntries at the lllternutitmul linngress ot‘ Physieal .\lellieine. ill London yesterday, says the [.ondttll Daily Express. 1 in the midst of :1 highly technical paper entitled, “ New ideas from X-ru)’ analysis on the llmleenlar structure properties of the proteins,“ the pro» t‘essnr, who is attaehed tu the Textile Physics Laboratory at Leeds L'ni\er:sit)‘. said:— ' “ilnir in water will stretch to halt liis original length. Afterwards it re—turns to normal- “ Thllt is what. happens when women have tileir hair curled and set or permanently waved—their hair stretches. This causes it molecular breakdown “It the linkage of the hail‘. - “it is the mast wonderfully elas—tie slihstnnee in nature. Indeed. it is pussillle to stretch llLtil' 10 liOllltlt‘ its original length.“ l “ Maclntosh ” Scales. t Later I asked l‘l'nfessnr .\.s'tlnn')~ to explain. "There in nu doubt." he, will. "that nny kilnt of permanent \\;l\‘in;: or sit-um setting is harmful In the hair. lint th.lt harm is nut seri—tins unless the tl.tll'-.'6t_‘lllll!,‘ iii-items is um'ei'tlnne. i “ It' tum lnueh \‘tt‘itltl or alkaline, ‘nxents .tl't‘ applied the hair will lustits elm“. it \\ill heeullle dry-lmvkilm 'Hlltl t'ttZZ). " This is nut only tlllt‘ tn the. molet'lll.|t‘ ltl‘l‘:llxll\t\\'tl ill the hair, The settle: nn ttle snrt‘m'e ot' the h:lit' nt'e “th injurell. ’l‘hese settles net US :I Mild “I. ltl‘uteetive lnueintnsh.” , lint l’l‘nt'esmtr .\stiiul‘y is not [lo3‘ .\ltltlhtit‘ illmltt the future ei'l'eets ut' nlmtern treatment ul' “mm-“fie “nil" t “t mn untlerstnnll th.lt it is \\nrth “1”!" -""Hl"|ll'il]]‘\ in \\Hlltt‘ll In ll‘.l\e lint-Ir h All‘ time." h:- .‘ltlttv " 'l'tn' tl‘lng‘H' '“ “11V“ tllll‘l‘ui‘ur U'C-lllllCllL is snen.’