The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-06-28

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fHr Hnrr WITH tie Yanux.


fl&r karc With the yonnx.
There il now going on mighty
stru86Ie which il almost essentially .
5Qaasion 81 aee Yet II is one which
eiIe<ts thouaanas ana thousands oi
u1ea and women who are toilers and
6xeadrwinners.
Qn al sides preference II given by
employers to youth over more ad-
yancod years. Absalom. in the vigor
"a bits jovenility. il content to receive
twenty 70 thirty per cent less money
<ban bis more mature rival In whole
ale warehouses, in public companies.
u retail establishments IN the street,
an the road and the rail. men and
women who are still hale and hearty
a mind and body have been set adrift
81 make room ferN the yoanger-and
sb6ape generation. They are will
Ia9 10 work Tor the same wage. but
tllc masters win have none OF them.
II their distress they turn to u
oomfortar mot to hu work-house. If
shey can avoid 20 doing; not to the
charitable institutiosf, not tine trades
Union. but 10 Figaro himself. The per-
rsxQu ior. the hairdresser. the barber.
The amount OF hair-dye used by arti-
sens and laborers Of all sorts is not
only enormous, but increases day by
1ay II u not vanity which impels
1hom 10 Me practice. 1t is life. for
which Il il well worth dyeing.
Tho testimony on the subject is un-
Iisniable, A knight OF the razor in
the north Of London testifies that he
is doing tremendous trade in hair
iyo with working-men for the reasons
ivon above "Thev take 1t home"
~ said, .and get their wives to lay il
on. Ia many cases II is an absolute
necessity with female employees Pro
prissors Of big millinery establishments
won't have women with gray hair on
the piesnises.
lou We no idea what misery I've
been aware Of in families from gray
fair. ! knew man. father Of six
childron All Of sudden. from III
think. his hair whitened. and
AZ took the earliest Oppor-
: kinily Of giving him the sack, and
getting younger man In his place
He couldn't obtain another situation
anywhere, and the more trouble he
had Che older he looked. AT last. when
Ne vas 81 his wits end. some one told
him TO get his hair dyed. and, what's
more. lent him the money TO have it
aone. Well. he's got another place.
It's loss money; but you'd hardly
know him again. I've seen scores
like him Tour young folk may sneer
ut dye and crack jokes on the subject,
but rs true IS I'm not a Dutchman it's
been the salvation Of many hard-work-
Ing raen and women" A lady dealing
Id human hair near St. Pancras, when
sounded on the subject. admitted the
practice. and allowed that she dealt
very largely Ia dye. nearly ell vended
70 those earning their living in large
commercial establishments.
The same tale was repeated by
one who did good deal Of
tranic ID this way with ladies Of
tbs thsatrical persuasion ..Lor'
bless YOU he exclaimed. with
out hair-dye some Of those women
would be nowhere. What would you
eeq, Il you was manager, II girl
with gray locks came to you and
wanted an engagement | expect
you'd show her the door pretty quick
". I'm not talking OF those vain
young females who turn black to gold
rrea to brown. ] mean The chorister
5IftY. i've % forty, still good look
lne. but wlla Is beginning to show the
p0ndnr puff on her head. There isn't
one. there isn't twenty. there isn't a
hundred. bnt I'd like TO bot there's 4
thousand Or more in the United King
dom Their greatgrandmothers had
t0wear wigs; their descendants are q
a1al more comfortable with j little
harmless coloring matter on their
own hair Anc 20 the story runs ad
iniinifnfl London Telegraph
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.sCId Hickory" Was Tough.