The other excellent curling fluid is made by dissolving in the same manner, two pounds of soap, eight ounces of potash in a pint and a half each of water, adding to the liquor, when cold and clear, twenty drops of essence of amber✪ Hair Curling Fluid. The hair is subject to changes peculiar to its nature and structure as disease or the approach of age alter the constitu- tion. Loss of color is perhaps the earliest source of annoy- ance, and many recipes have been set forth as a means of its restoration. These consist chiefly of hair dyes; preparations 76 ETIQUETTE. which at best are of doubtful service, and, in some instances, positively dangerous from the metallic agents employed in their composition; at the same time, they are extremely troublesome to use. '1 he remote causes of premature grey hair are anxiety, dis- appointment, protracted grief, great mental exertion, fear, fright, headache, and some others. Great care should be taken after sea bathing to wash the hair in soft water, to free it from the saline particles which form so large a constituent of the sea water, as these are very active in producing grey hair by extraction of the natural color. Among the best ap- plications to the hair, with a view to prevent its becoming grey, are prepared marrow, bear's grease and honey water; the latter should be made thus: Take two quarts of the best French brandy; one pound of virgin honey; half a pound of coriander seeds; one ounce of cloves; half an ounce each of nutmeg, benzoin, and storax; the rind of two lemons, and two vanil- loes; digest forty-eight hours, and distil with a gentle heat; add a pint each of rose water and orange-flower water; with three grains of ambergris; digest again forty-eight hours, and then filter and keep the water in closely stopped bottles. There may possibly be a few instances where the adoption of false hair is excusable if not justifiable, but the matron whose tresses have become sprinkled with silver, commits an offence against beauty of the most interesting order in 'removing or concealing them, and assuming in their place substitues pre- pared by the artist, since the latter, however elegant and even natural in their appearance, are ever too youthful to harmonize with the faded complexion and altered features of advancing years. The hair exercises considerable influence upon the health; and the consequence of cutting it depends upon the state of the circulation in the head at the time, and the quantity re- moved; to a person in health cold in the head, ear ache, head ache, and sometimes sore throat is the result when much is taken off suddenly, unless a covering is substituted, and worn for some time afterwards. Those who are strongly constituted, and who take regular exercise in the open air, may not perhaps experience inconvenience by the neglect of this precaution, ETIQUETTE. 7?

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The other excellent curling fluid is made by dissolving in the same manner, two pounds of soap, eight ounces of potash in a pint and a half each of water, adding to the liquor, when cold and clear, twenty drops of essence of amber. The hair is subject to changes peculiar to its nature and structure as disease or the approach of age alter the constitution. Loss of color is perhaps the earliest source of annoyance, and many recipes have been set forth as a means of its restoration. These consist chiefly of hair dyes; preparations which at best are of doubtful service, and, in some instances, positively dangerous from the metallic agents employed in their composition; at the same time, they are extremely troublesome to use. '1 he remote causes of premature grey hair are anxiety, disappointment, protracted grief, great mental exertion, fear, fright, headache, and some others. Great care should be taken after sea bathing to wash the hair in soft water, to free it from the saline particles which form so large a constituent of the sea water, as these are very active in producing grey hair by extraction of the natural color. Among the best applications to the hair, with a view to prevent its becoming grey, are prepared marrow, bear's grease and honey water; the latter should be made thus: Take two quarts of the best French brandy; one pound of virgin honey; half a pound of coriander seeds; one ounce of cloves; half an ounce each of nutmeg, benzoin, and storax; the rind of two lemons, and two vanilloes; digest forty-eight hours, and distil with a gentle heat; add a pint each of rose water and orange-flower water; with three grains of ambergris; digest again forty-eight hours, and then filter and keep the water in closely stopped bottles. There may possibly be a few instances where the adoption of false hair is excusable if not justifiable, but the matron whose tresses have become sprinkled with silver, commits an offence against beauty of the most interesting order in 'removing or concealing them, and assuming in their place substitues prepared by the artist, since the latter, however elegant and even natural in their appearance, are ever too youthful to harmonize with the faded complexion and altered features of advancing years. The hair exercises considerable influence upon the health; and the consequence of cutting it depends upon the state of the circulation in the head at the time, and the quantity removed; to a person in health cold in the head, ear ache, head ache, and sometimes sore throat is the result when much is taken off suddenly, unless a covering is substituted, and worn for some time afterwards. Those who are strongly constituted, and who take regular exercise in the open air, may not perhaps experience inconvenience by the neglect of this precaution, ETIQUETTE. 7?

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