Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-19
FOR LADIES ONLY.
MATTERS OF FANCY, FICTION
AND FASHION.
Injuries Resulting from Dyeing the
Difference in WoGaniy
Attractions-Bre

Injuries Resulting from Dyeing the
Hair-DiGerence in WoGaniy
Attractions-Bre
The folly and crime of using hair dye,
now so common among Young ladies, is
thus sensibly commented upon by Lucy
Harper in one Of her recent Paris letters
regret very much to notice the growing pop
ularity of the custom of dyeing dark locks
light among my fair countrywomen. was
present at an afternoon reeebtion OF The
house of an American lady the other day,
and in my immediate vicinity sat four
latIies-all Americans-each one of which
had her hair dyed different hue. One
head boosted of reddish-chestnut locks, an
other was of red-gold color, third was q
canary-yellow, and fourth was OF the
palest gold. Now, there is nothing pos
itively immoral about the practice of dye
ing ones hair any more than there is in
painting ones face or blackenlng one
ewes. But all these performances tend to
give the person that INDUCES IN them q
highly improper aspect. Moreover, to GER
tain constitutions some forms OF this hair
coloring process are highly injurious. A
most lamentable case of this nature has
lust come under my own observation. 1t
is that of a young French married lady,
who, not being content with her own halr,
which was of pretty, hght,bro"n
tint, went to a fashionable hair-dresser,
and went through a tiresome and
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color of her tresses into q golden hue.
She was forced to remain for some hours
every morning for several days with her
head covered with sort of paste, and this
process had TO be repeated every month, as
the blonde color wears off as the hair grows
out. It resulted i'll agonizing headaches.
have seen her at a solree with the large
| tears running down her cheeks from sheer
excess of pain. The other day her suffer
ing eliminated in an attack of insanity.
| She was removed TO an asylum, and the
physicians in attendance give very little
| hope of her recovery. If there exists such
a malady as brain poisoning. she is I'M
! doubtedly its victim. This hair-dyeing
| business is by no means cheap amuse-
ment. For the process to which the I'M
! fortunate lady aforesaid submitted herself,
and which must be repeated every month,
| SO for each application is demanded by a
| fashionable hair-dresser. A bottle of the
most potent and popular of the blonde
hair-dyes costs IS. Each bottle suffices to
color good head of hair just once. Some
| of these dyes destroy the hair, causing ii to
fall out by the handful. Others produce
terrible headaches, that result being by no
means uncommon. The sufferer usually
attributes the malady to neuralgia or 10
dyspepsia-to anything, in short, rather
| than to its real cause.
THE nomELY AND THE FASHIONABLE GIRL.
Many foolish men, however, SO desire the
CON partnership of fashionable beauty and
grace that scores of utterly useless, silly
society girls would be engaged within a
! month were these same unseliish and mis-
taken men able to afford it. But they
frankly say they cannot afford it, and no
| sort OF sentimental ripening will alter that
cold hard fact. The great mass of women,
both in fashionable society and out OF it,
are commonplace and mediocre in both
looks and talents, and cannot win husbands
| BY bringing them either fame or fortune,
and can best get them by showing a ire
mendous ability TO take care OF themselves.
| state il as an axiom that a homelv girl
who can earn her own living and do it well
gets three offers where a really cookbook
ing fashionable girl gets one. Anda hand
some woman in any class, known to be a
good cook and manager, never wanted for
husband, and often captures the grandest
prizes In this age of competition woman
must not be only pretty and witty, she must
be energetic and useful, and the more able
she to make money,o manage money, the
more Independent she is OF man, and the
more he desires her and Will have her.
Fair Ariadne. as you are not gifted in
music, art or literature, learn to cook sew
and save Not the fancy branches, but the
solid midde-class cooking. sewing and saw
ing that will help your husband over the
hard places if he comes to them, and
! though you are beautiful as dream and
marry a millionaire. none the less will ne
be proud of your abilities and boast OF
them and believe III them. Yet, after
all. there is plenty of unselGsh love in the
world, Ariadne, and learn from others
happier than yourself and compel your
share of il TO come TO you. Stand nc
longer on the shore watching the retreat
ing form of love, who leaves you without
regret turn away from the tickle waves
and fading phantoms of the sea, and come
back to the busy work-a-day world, and
put your dainty fingers and listless mind
into some of the pressing, needed labor OF
the world and before you dream of it some
earnest man will clasp your hand and say,
"let us live and work together. "-.S. Louls
Globe Democrat.
WOMEN WHO HEAR THEIR HUSBANDS.
Almost any day between u and in the
afternoon a visitor to the House of Repre-
sentatives can see in the members gallery
a tall handsome woman, with three pretty
children, ranging from | to s years of age.
The lady is Mrs Rogers, wife of Represent
alive Rogers of Arkansas. The evident
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every movement of her husband has be-
come matter of comment to the gallery
habitues. She is usually in her place by
the time the Chaplain begins his PRAYER,
and seldom leaves before O'Clock. Her
face is study whenever her husband rises
| to speak. 1t is a beautiful face, too-one of
those dark, oval Southern faces, lighted up
| with black eyes. whose expression is a
mingling of intelligence, refinement and
passion. While Rogers is speaking her
expression is mirror of the current of his
thoughts. Though Mrs. Rogers is the
most conspicuous of the Congressmen's
wives who like to listen to their hus-
bands speaking, she is by no means the
only looker-on. Mrs. Morrison is as fire.
| quent a visitor to the House. She is usu-
| ally accom- panied by one or more young
ladies' When Mr.. Morrison takes the floor
especially if any revenue matter is under
consideration, she listens to his words Gag
| erly, bu without any emotions expressed
in her zee. In fact, she seems TO be giving
critic.i hearing to his arguments, with a
view OF discussing them afterward. 1t will
seem the more likely that this is her pur-
pose when it is remembered that she is
fully abreast with her husband in political
economy. All his tariff bills have been
prepared with her assistance She is tire
less reader of all politco-economic works.
Those who know her say she is as we'll
versed in Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill
and Ricardo as most women are in Bertha
| Clay ) novels. Indeed, rumor has it that
| Mr.. Morrison's speeches pass through her
revising hands before delivery. 1t is only
natural, then. that she is always at hand
when productions of which she is the joint
author are to begiyen to the world Wash
| ingt0a Cor. GGivest0n Ne,uS.
HAND-PAINTED DRESSES.
Art and fashion are involved with each
other now as never before. Not only do