o seem dirty, give it a good shampooing. Wash both hair and
scalp thoroughly in a washbowl of warm water in which has been
dissolved a tablespoonful of powdered borax; then rinse it well in
clear warm water; you will be surprised sometimes at the complexion of
the water.

Many women dread the shampooing because of their liability to take
cold in the process. Let such a person choose a room where the air is
warm and dry. After wiping the hair thoroughly dry with towels, and
pinning a fresh one around the neck and shoulders, let her get some
one to come and make a breeze with a large palm-leaf fan upon her hair
while she is engaged in carefully disentangling it with a brush and
comb, occasionally giving the scalp a little vigorous rubbing if it
begins to feel chilly. The fanning greatly hastens the drying process.
Another plan is to lie down with the hair spread out on cushions in
the sunshine. Be sure to get it thoroughly dry before putting it up.

An Excellent Head Covering.

A very pleasant step, though not a necessary one, next to take is to
have a little thin silk mob-cap (of some pretty shade of silk, so that
it is becoming rather than disfiguring, if needful, to wear about the
home), lined, and thickly wadded with cotton-batting, well powdered
with heliotrope or some other delicate sachet powder (these come in
ten or fifteen-cent packages), and wear this from one to three hours.
Here, again, those thousands of minute tentacles come into play; they
catch and retain (one would almost think they close over them) the
atoms of the perfume when they are thus freed from dust, and when the
hair is soft and light in its new cleanness--and it is astonishing for
how long a time the hair will retain that faint, delicate aroma which
is so truly lovely in a woman's hair; and all to be obtained in so
simple and innocent a way as with this little mob-cap, put on at the
right time.

A good rule for ensuring the regular brushing of the hair, which may
be taught to children (and perhaps good for busy women also), is to
brush the hair with fifty long strokes both at morning and at night.

Much also depends upon the brush. Let it not be stiff enough to hurt
the scalp. Choose a brush of medium stiffness, with bristles long and
close together, and nowhere will it pay better, "in the long run," to
give a good price for a good article than in a woman's hairbrush which
she proposes to use as described above.

Do not use a fine-toot