When the hairs are frequently cut, they will usually become
coarser, often losing the beautiful gloss of the fine and delicate
hairs. The pigment will likewise change--brown, for instance, becoming
chestnut, and black changing to a dark brown. In addition, the ends of
very many will be split and ragged, presenting a brush like
appearance. If the hairs appear stunted in their growth upon portions
of the scalp or beard, or gray hairs crop up here and there, the
method of clipping off the ends of the short hairs, of plucking out
the ragged, withered, and gray hairs, will allow them to grow
stronger, longer, and thicker.
Mothers, in rearing their children, should not cut their hair at
certain periods of the year (during the superstitious time of full
moon), in order to increase its length and luxuriance as they bloom
into womanhood, and manhood. This habit of cutting the hair of
children brings evil in place of good, and is also condemned by the
distinguished worker in this department, Professor Kaposi, of Vienna,
who states that it is well known that the hair of women who possess
luxuriant locks from the time of girlhood never again attains its
original length after having once been cut.
Pincus has made the same observation by frequent experiment, and he
adds that there is a general opinion that frequent cutting of the hair
increases its length; but the effect is different from that generally
supposed. Thus, upon one occasion he states that he cut off circles of
hair an inch in diameter on the heads of healthy men, and from week to
week compared the intensity of growth of the shorn place with the rest
of the hair.
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