GREY HAIR.

Evening Star, Issue 11452, 21 January 1901, Page 3

GREY HAIR.

- ■ «. The sedentary, the studious, the debilitated, and the sickly are, with very few exceptions, those -who are earliest visited with grey hair, says ' Health.' lie agricultural laborer, the seaman, and all whose employment consists of or involves exercise in the open' air, and whose diet is necessarily simple, are those whose hair latest affords signs that the last process has commenced, that the fluids have begun to be absorbed, the textures to dry up and become withered. All whose employment renders much sitting necessary, and little or no exercise possible ; all who, from whatever cause, have local determination of blood, particularly if towards the head, are the persons most liable to carry grey hairs. It is well known that mental emotions and violent passions have in a night made the hair grey. Instances of this are numerous. They are in the same way to be understood and explained. They are owing to the increased determination o'f blood, stimulating the absorbents into preternatural activity, and causing them to take ■up the coloring matter of the hair. It will indeed be fortunate if a desire to preserve the beautiful luxuriance of the hair should induce any fair votaries of fashion and civilisation to forego late hours and heated rooms and try whether it is not better, and productive of more happiness, as well as calculated to produce this end, to exercimj their limbs, and inhale the fresh and uc*ainted breath of the morning hours.