Evening journal., 1889-05-20
HAIR DYE AND WAGE FARMERS.
Mature Workingmen Driven To Use Is a
Enormous Quantities.

Mature Worxingmen Driven to Use Ts IN
Enormous Quantities.
There is now going on a mighty STRUGGLE
which is almost essentially a question Of ago.
Yet it Is one which affects thousands ana
thousands of men and women, who aro toilers
and bread winners
On all sides preference Is given by empIoy-
ers TO youth over more advanced Years
Absalom, In tho yigor Of his juvenility. is
content to receive 20 to 30 per cent. les,
money than his more mature rival In
Wholesale warehouses, in public companies.
In retail establishments, in the street. on the
road and the rail, men and women who are
still hale and hearty in mind and BODY have
been set adrift to make room for tho Younger
and cheaper-generation. They are willing
to work for the same WAGES, but the masters
viii have none of them.
In their distress they turn 60 a comforter
not TO the workhouse, if they can avoid 90
doing; not to the charitable institutions. not
TO the trades unions, but TO the Figaro him
self, tho perruquier, the hairdresser. the bar
Der. The amount of hair dye used by artisans
and laborers Of all sorts Is not only enormous
but increases day by day 1t is not vanity
which impels them to the practice: it is life.
for which it is well worth dyeing.
The testimony on the subjsct is undoniable
A knight of the razor in the north Of London
testiaes that be is doing a tremendous trade
in hair dye with worksngmen for the reasons
given above "They take it home" he said
'and get their wives to lay it on. In many
cases it is an absolute necessity with female
employees Proprietors Of big millinery estab-
lishments won't have women with gray hair
on the promises
You've no den what misery I've been
aware Of in families from gray hair. knew
man, father Of six children. All Of sud
den, from illness, ! think, his hair whitened,
and his employer took tho earliest opportu-
nifty Of giving him the SACK and getting a
younger man in his place He couldn't obtain
another situation anywhere, and the moro
trouble he had tho older he looked. At last,
when he was at his wits end, some one told
him TO get his hair dyed, and what's more,
lent him tho money 10 have it done Well,
hos got another place. It's less money; but
you'd hardly know him again I've seen
scores like him Your young folk may sneer
at dye and crack jokes on the subject, bub rs
true as I'm not Dutchman it's been the sal
vation Of many hard working men and wom-
en-" A lady dealing in human hair near st.
Pancras when sounded on tho subject, adj.
AlAbNNA bhN IipS1aeSf ehA thAANREl hhl1hb cht
dealt very largely in dye, nearly all vended
TO those earning their living in largo com
mercial establishments.
Tho same tale was repeated by one who did
good deal Of traffic in this way with ladies
of the theatrical persuasion. "Lor' bless
| youn he exclaimed, without hair dye some
Of those women would be nowhere What
would you say, If you was manager, if q
girl with gray locks came to you and wanted
an engagementt Iexpect you'd show her the
| door pretty quickly. I'm not talking Of thost
vain young females who turn black to gold
or red to brown. / mean the chorister of 3;
to 40, still good looking, but who is beginning
to show the powder puff on her head. There
isn't one, there isn't twenty, there isn't
hundred, but I'd bet there's a thousand o.
more in the United Kingdom Their great
| grnndmothers had to wear wigs; their dc
seendants are deal more comfortable witt
little harmless colorirg matter on their own
hair And SO the story runs ed inflnituIn
London Telegraph.