"Don't go Bald"

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 4, Issue 10, 1 April 1926, Page 41

"Don't go Bald"

IWOES the modern shingled girl miss the exercise she formerly got by brushing her long tresses ? According to a well-known medical man, the girl who used to brush her long hair for five or ten minutes in the morning and evening was by the long swinging movements of the brush helping to keep herself graceful and supple and developing her muscles and chest. “One thing against short hair,” he states, “is that it usually does not get nearly so much brushing as long hair. A girl either flips it with the hair-brush, attacks it with a comb, or perhaps just pats it into place. On the other hand, the woman with long hair will usually spend a cer-

tain amount of time in keeping it well brushed. By the mere action of brushing she moves her whole body, and bring into play certain muscles until the process becomes quite an excellent physical exercise.” Brushing long hair also helped to keep the scalp loose, which was a prevention against baldness, maintained the doctor. “You will notice,” he said, “that men’s hair invariably begins to get thin on the top before anywhere else, because the scalp here is not so loose and flexible as at the back of the head.” The moral would seem to be: If you bob or shingle, don’t forget to brush your hair thoroughly.