Archive for the 'Health' Category

1920’s Hairstyles

The decade of theÂ 1920’s was interesting for the significant changes that took place in the hairdressing industry.
Up until the 1920’s, long hair was preferred by most women. It was either worn long, fashioned into buns or plaits, or worn up in fancy hairstyles for special occasions. The first world war precipitated a change in attitude [...]

Accident Prevention 1927

ACCIDENTS ON SCHEDULE
“IN MY experience in industry I have found that all accidents happen in the first two hours of the first half of the working day, and the last two hours of the last half,” says Dr. W. Louis Hartman, chief surgeon, Michigan Central Railroad, writing in National Safety News. Says The Nation’s Health [...]

History of the Marcel Wave Hairstyle

The Marcel Wave (sometimes spelt Marcelle) is a stylish wave given to the hair by means of heated curling irons. Named for Francois Marcel, 19th century French hairdresser who invented the process in 1872. It revolutionized the art of hairdressing all over the world and remained in vogue for over fifty years, making a fortune [...]

The Art of Finger Waving Hair

Finger Waving Techniques of the 1920’s and 1930’s
FINGER WAVING is possibly the newest branch of beauty culture, yet in its few years of existence it has reached an importance that few phases of the art enjoy. Very little has been written on the subject, and there is a great demand for instructive literature on finger [...]

1920’s Finger Waving

DEFINITION OF FINGER WAVING
FINGER WAVING is the art of shaping or moulding hair while wet into “s”-shaped curved undulations with the fingers and comb. These waves when dried without being disturbed will fall into beautiful deep waves. Finger waves differ from marcel waves in that there are no irons used on the hair. Not only [...]

Airborne Bacteria Survey 1929

Planes Hunt Bacteria
AN AIRPLANE hunt for bacteria was a recent novelty at Cambridge, England. Its object was to determine how plant and crop diseases are spread in upper air currents.
Several kinds of germ traps were used by the airplane that made the tests. Glass slides smeared with petrolatum, and test tubes and glass dishes filled [...]

Psychology Advancements in 1929

PSYCHOLOGY in 1929
by A. T. POFFENBERGER, PH.D.
Professor of Psychology, Columbia University
THE outstanding event in the psychological world during 1929 was the ninth International Congress of Psychology, held for the first time in America, at Yale University, September 1 to 7. Twenty-one foreign countries were represented by from one to twenty-two psychologists. There was a total [...]

Medical Achievements 1929

MEDICINE AND SURGERY 1929
by MORRIS FISHBEIN, M.D.
Editor, Journal American Medical Association
Popular Science Monthly – January 1930
THE following subjects have been of exceeding interest during the year just completed.
The concentrated extract of vitamin D made by irradiating ergosterol and now prescribed and sold as viosterol is of the greatest importance as a preventive and cure of [...]