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 willing to take the risk can use them, as no bad results to the general health follow the external application of a weak solution of this acid. On the contrary, it is a useful addition to a bath for "bilious" persons.

If persons will use a golden dye, this is the one we recommend. Many of the others contain a salt of mercury (the yellow sulphuret), or one of lead (the acetate, nitrate, or yellow chromate), or of antimony (the yellow sulphuret), all of which are poisonous and objectionable.

ON FALSE HAIR, CHIGNONS, ETC.

The most crabbed moralist, we presume, will hardly object to false hair in the shape of a wig—but when it comes to a "chignon," or a "rat," or a "curl," the offence is singularly apparent. We confess to a want of power to see this difference, and believe that if it is proper in the one instance to improve the looks by the use of borrowed locks, so it is in the other. Women are quite right to wear what amount of false hair they need to dress their heads becomingly.

The trade in human hair is a very important branch of commerce. It has increased more than fourfold within the last twelve years, and yet the demand so far exceeds the supply that the prices have also increased fourfold. In Philadelphia, where we write, a good-sized braid of very choice hair, weighing about sixteen