The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-28
HAIR-DYING A DEAD ART.
Men Don't Blacken Their Gray Hair
and Whiskers Nowadays.
From the Philadelphia Times.

From the Philadelphia Times.
A tall, slender man dressed in black and
wearing an old-fashioned collar and cravat,
walked into John Bach's barber shop under
Green's hotel, yesterday afternoon, and
walking up to Barber Bach, said SO low
that none of the customers in the shop
heard him:
''Do you dye hair here?'
Barber Bach shook his head and said,
Haven't for eight years" The mans hair
was a dark pink and bis mustache was
mixed with pink and white hairs. The
man was walking photograph of the fop
or hfteen years ago, when it was fashionable
to wear dyed hair and mustaches. He left
the shop as quietly as he had entered.
After he was gone Barber Bach, who has
been tonsorial artist for fifteen years, and
who has shaved most of tie prominent men
i'll town, said:
That's the first customer I've had for
hair dyeing for many a day. He's one Of
the old-timers. Ten years ago, when l
worked at Seventh and Chestnut, it was
the fashion for men to dye their hair and
| mustaches. In those days men were ashamed
of their gray hairs. I think there was a
greater display Of vanity then than now.
Young men who were prcmaturely gray
were ashamed Of gray hairs, too; but it's
| considered lust the thing to be prematurely
1
powder and cosmetics to make their black
nair look gray 1t was fashionable for
young men who had puny mustaches to
have them dyed, SO that the fuzz on their
upper lips would stand out in bold relief
| from their faces
| Hair dyeing is dead art. None of the
BARRIERS In the heart of the city keep hair
dye nowadays 1t used to pay immensely,
and BARRIERS made lots of money. Dyeing
| hair and whiskars was a So or 81 Job, and
1t took an hour or two to fix a man up. l
| know men who are as gray as badgers now,
who used to get their hair dyed every two
weeks. | know men who spent all the
money they could scrape together outside
of their living to keep their hair and whis-
| kers black.
but now man who wants his hair dyed
would be ashamed to go to big shop to
have it done. There are few little shops
where hair is dyed. Men go there because
nobody they know will see them. No man
who dyes his hair imagines that anyone
knows his hair is dyed. The big BARRIERS
won't keep hair dye any more. It's only
nitrate of silver and water. l used to use
rain water. l had to wear gloves while
| dyelng hair, for the constant application
of the dye made my hands sore. 1t ate into
my fingers and nearly poisoned me.
II can name number of dead men who
were prominent in this CITY a dozen or fif-
| boou y dE,O VINO lIOll Inc 0u0CUS Oh
hair dyes, and | know of others who b.
came insane. All hair dye is poison, and
will eventually poison a mans whole sys-
tenn. IL man who dyes his hair will put
a bright silver half dollar in his trousers
pocket and carry it for month or two, the
half dollar will turn as black as ink, which
shows that the dye must affect his whole
system.
Hair dye is to blame for hundreds of
bald heads in this town to-day. The dye
| kills the roots Of the hair. 1t eats into the
| flesh, too. If man with dyed mustache
were to shave off his mustache there would
| be a pink streak across his upper lip that
would not disappear for months. OF course
| it is not as fashionable now to dye hair as
it used to be, but still believe there would
be lots OF it done only that men have found
| through the fate of others that hair dye is
| ruinous to the system. 1t takes a man of
great mental and physical strength to stand
the effects of hair dye. l am glad that hair
| dyelng is no longer part of the barber
business. 1 always felt that was helping
to hurry a man to his grave when was
| dyeing his hair.
| 1.-THE latest fad is bleaching mustaches
BARRIERS don't do it. Men buy the bleach
and apply it at home. 1t Is done mostly by
young men. You can see lots of young
men to-day with dark brown hair who have
lovely blonde mustaches The bleach makes
|
light brown. The girls like blonde mus
taches. Black mustaches, even of the
| simon-pure sort, have lost favor.
"Men with fiery red mustaches use
bleach nowadays. Not all men with red
mustaches, but great many. You won't
see near SO many red mustaches as you
| could have seen year ago. You'll see a
man with head of red hair, while his
mustache will be lovely tint Of old gold.
The bleach is just es injurious as the black
hair dye. A good many men with red
teards use the bleach too. A blonde beard
is very fashionable nowadays. The ordi-
nary, everyday observer isn't likely to
detect bogus blonde beard or mustache,
but a barber who knows his business can
tell them every time.
1.-THE red headed girl has had to suffer a
good deal about that chestnut which con-
meets her hair with the white horse, but
that's played out now. Red-haired girls,
unless their hair is fiery red, have the call
at the present time. That's the reason red
headed girls don't resort to the bleach bot
ties. There are more bogus blondes in
Philadelphia to-day than there ever were.
| l can point out hundreds of them on Eighth
street every day. In time they will feel the
effects Of the bleach. Anything that will
change the natural color of the hair must
necessarily act upon the roots of the hair.
| Hundreds upon hundreds OF women
whose hair is naturally brown are mas
querading to-day as blondes. l can tell
bogus blonde the moment | see one. In
order to keep the hair from assuming its
natural color, the bleach has to be applied
at least once month. Every woman who
uses bleach is shortening her own life and
running her hair The practice Of bleaching
the hair is not confined to any particular
class of women. In New York at the pres
| emit time there is much more OF it than in
| Philadelphia, and there are establishments
there that employ women to apply the
bleach. These places are coming money!"
Speaking Of vanity, Barber Bach said:
"The place to hold the mirror up to nature
is in barber shop, either where men go to
get shaved, or where women go to have
their hair attended to. The weaknesses in
the way of vanity crop out in barber shop
as they do nowhere else"
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