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| Introduction | |
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| Hair as an Attribute of Beauty | |
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| How men have regarded beauty in women's locks | |
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| The inspiration of poets and artists | |
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| The cause of wars, bloodshed and sudden death | |
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| Hair as a history-maker | |
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| Facts Everyone Should Know About the Hair | |
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| How hair grows | |
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| Causes of difference between men's and women's hair | |
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| Curly hair and straight | |
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| The cause of curls and kinkiness | |
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| Blonde, brunette and red-haired beauties | |
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| Pigmentation | |
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| Racial differences in hair | |
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| How to Care for Healthy Hair | |
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| Combing, brushing, washing and cleansing children's, women's, men's hair | |
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| Sun baths and air baths | |
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| Effects of massage and mechanical stimulation | |
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| Combs and Brushes | |
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| How to select your comb and brush | |
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| What to avoid | |
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| Gauging the stiffness of brushes | |
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| Wire brushes and their effects | |
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| The proper care of brush and comb | |
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| Facts About Soaps and Shampoos | |
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| How to tell the right kind of soap for your scalp | |
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| Effects of alkali soaps | |
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| Perfumed soap | |
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| Tincture of Green Soap | |
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| Importance of selecting a bland, non-irritating soap | |
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| The Cause of Hair Troubles | |
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| How hair depends upon health | |
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| The effects of fever and disorders of nutrition | |
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| Syphilis and skin diseases | |
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| Dandruff | |
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| Its causes and successful treatment | |
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| Importance of cleanliness | |
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| Influence of germs | |
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| The "bottle bacillus," and how to kill it | |
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| Contagious scalp diseases | |
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| Favus, Ringworm, Head-lice | |
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| The kerosene shampoo | |
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| Dry Hair, Oily Scalp and Split Hair | |
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| "Falling" Hair | |
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| Natural falling | |
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| Unnatural loss | |
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| Causes | |
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| Treatment | |
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| Value of cutting the hair and shaving the head | |
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| Split hair and how to avoid it | |
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| Baldness | |
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| Classification of baldness | |
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| Causes | |
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| Hereditary inclination | |
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| Why fat-headedness is a preventive of baldness | |
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| Probability of cure | |
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| Treatment | |
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| Electric light and violet ray | |
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| Vibration | |
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| Pulling the hair | |
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| "Wiggling" the scalp | |
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| Gray Hair | |
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| Grief, worry, shock, age, mainutrition | |
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| Heredity | |
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| The gray lock and its cause | |
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| Safe and unsafe hair dyes | |
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| Superfluous Hair | |
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| Causes of excessive hairiness | |
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| Excessive growth of hair on the body | |
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| On eyebrows | |
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| Under the arm-pits | |
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| To remove unwanted hair | |
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| Electrolysis | |
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| Depilatories | |
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| Hair "Beautifiers" | |
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| Singeing, curling, "permanent waving," bleaching | |
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| Titian henna blondes | |
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| Hair Tonics--Have They Any Value? | |
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| When harmful and when beneficial | |
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| Most hair tonic claims false | |
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| Eyebrows and Eyelashes | |
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| Why they fall out | |
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| What to believe about the advertised lotions and recipes | |
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| The Beard | |
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| Reverence for the beard among Oriental races | |
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| Protection | |
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| Beards unhygienic | |
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| Care and treatment | |
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| Hair Dressing | |
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| Ancient and modern methods | |
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| Styles for various types | |
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| Harmful methods | |
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| Puffs | |
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| Artificial coiffures | |
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| The bang | |
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| Wigs | |
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| Bobbed hair, "Dutch Cut." | |