The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-07-18
BEAUTIFUL BUT DEAD.

tBn Nye. ia DrakeS rravellera' Magazine.
 lnossce with sincere regret that AnstAel New York gentleman has lost his life ., result of oSer-indalgence in the AaiI dye habit This habit Is now tapping the life blood of many and sowing ths seeds ot death throughout our entire land
 The hair itself is no, improved hS aye ing as an Indian is. The indian, pgios to dying, is disAgreeable and annoying, but atteTward he at once becomes docile and harmless. The hair vhen dyed be. comes rough, and if coloEed dead black is the gloomiest sight know of You take heavy mo0stache, aud atter color. ing it crushed tom-cat black, hang it over a new set of white commercial teeth that were m ade tor another party and you have a picture wh,ch will make a horse leave his stall with pleasure. Hair in its natural state, when growing on the head of the original owner, Is a good thing, but when used for its third or fourth time it becomes distastefuL Then If we try to color the hair and make |, leok pretty instead of eombing h and allowing is to emain the same shade aa nature designed it to be, we fool our. 1 1GtNUS uAWtU tuou w dU VkuGA HNuRtOs Nothing looks more beautiful than beautiful hair growing where 1t was planted by an All Wise Hand; but nosh- ing can be more pinful than the picture of an old wtdower E.s,ns up out oi hts grave on the morning of resurrection day with 10, of London dyed second ,hand haiF and a set Of dollAT.Store teeth in hts hand,
 have made some experiments iH the hair hne and fad that l can let my grocery account run just as long withou, hair as could with hair. So that for the purposes ot trade haiv Is not essential, Let us go Sttll farther and see how it is about matrimonial matters. lt ts claimed by gtay-hatred w,dowers especially, and bachelors who were born q long time ago, that gray hair or seldom hair Is in )ur,ous to matrimonial opportunities rh,s depends ot course upon who the victim IS to be. lt she be young and skIt,ish thing from the kindergarten, who regards hair as A mark of success tn life, perhaps you are right in trying to Im prove on nature but lf she be the kind to stand up and Ugh, for ysu instead ot with you, a large AssoTtment oi damaged natT Wtll nOt eaten ner.
 l know that man with five cents worth of haw may marry far above hts station in lfs, for have tired it myself So the dangerous and foolish habit ol wearing the h air that has been naed from a foreign morRue, is not excuSable on the ground that we cannot be properly loved fl we are Sald.
 Thn ough, to be equally true Of the hair that s gray. People who have nice gray hair should remember those who part their halt W,lh a Turkish towel IL had gray hair instead ot A site for It ls now have, 1 would spend my tune largely comblng IL instead ot bl tcking il Those who black their halT as rule do not comb i; as much A they should for teAr oi wearing oil the backing. Is il no, singular that m ln should preier paEaly. SIS and black hAir to health and hand. some white hair2 Isn't n odd thA, q man who s old enough to know better should choose 10 be a premature angel with dead black halr and a dab of haiI dye on his nose when he really donh have toI
 The other day saw an old party who had two iong bTindse uiAes oi han pulled 10 front ot his ears and colored On top he had no hair and behind he had neglected to color tt, so that when hs looked in the mirror and had his ha, on he could fool himself. He certainly did not fool anybody else.
 could not help thinking hos he would look when Gtonel sounds his horn and the old gentlem an begins to scrabble around for his ha,r dye and his h n so tha, he w,ll look pretty before the J1dg- men,-bn
 We should so live that GOO years from nov future generations w,ii not stop o ask. "DDi't he wear hls o~n Iu or that of a total NrauKerT We should lead such lives that people will be sorry ~nen we are gone aud regret 1t for two or three days at least. it is better to die oAid-heaied and beloved thau to live for ever wearing coal black hAir and sur rounded by millions of people who As- sure us tha, we need not postpone our death on the,r account. Stiii there arc men ~ho do no, care for all this. Neither do they care for health. They would rather die pretty pasaiy.,c than to live whte.h aired aad on the square,
 We talk much of the folly aud vanity Of woman, but wheu a m sn really os co mes am oit,ous to be A star fool, he shAmes all the female fools Of hts time