Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-16
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4 To Borrow Money.
l A situation.
l And many other tklngs
HAIR DYE AND WAGE FARMERS.
Mature workingmen Driven to Use II In
Enormous Quantities

Enormous Quantities
There Is now going on a mighty struggle
which Is almost essentially question OF ago.
Yet 1t Is che which affects thousands and
thousands OF men and women, who are toilers
and bread winners
On all sides preference Is given by employ
ers TO youth over more advanced years
Absalom, In tho vigor Of his trvenility, Is
content to receive 20 to 50 per oent less
money than his more mature rival In
wholesale warehouses, in public companies,
In retail establishments in the street, on the
road and the ran, men and women who are
still hale and hearty In mind and body have
been set adrift to make room for the younger
and cheaper-generation They are willing
to work for the same wages, bat the masters
will have mono of them.
In their distress they turn TO a comforter
not to the workhouss, IL they can avoid 50
doing; not TO the charitable institutions, not
to the trades uniens, but 20 tho Figaro hun
self, the perruquier, the hairdraser, the bar
Der. The amour. Of hair dye used by artisans
and laborers Of al sorts Is not unSy enormous,
but increases day by day. It Is not vanity
which impels them TO the practice; II is life,
for which 1t Is well worth dyeing.
A knight Of tho razor IN the north Of London
testifies that he IL doing a tremendous trade
in hair dye with workingmrn for the reasons
given above They take It home. be aid,
land get their wives TO lay 10 on In many
cases II Is an absolute necessity with female
employea Proprietars Of big millinery estab-
nshrnents won't have women with gray hair
on tho premises
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aware Of In families from gray hair. | knew
a man, q father Of hx children Al Oft sud
den, from illness, think his hair rhitencd,
and his employer took the earliest opportn-
nifty Of giving him the sack and getting
younger man In his place he couldn't obtain
another situation anywhere, and the moro
trouble BIO had the older he looked AZ last,
when hs was at his wits end. some one told
him 10 get his hair dyed, and, what's more.
lent him the money TO have 10 dons Wei.
he's got another place. It's less money, but
you'd hardly know him sgnin. I've s,en
scores Ike him. Your young folk may srleer
at dye and crack Jokcs on tho subject, but az
true as I'm not Dutchrnhn It's been tho sal
walton Of many hard working men and woTD-
en-" A lady dealing In human hair near 81
Pancras, when ryunded on tho subject, adj
mi.ted the practice, and allowed that she
deal. very largely In dye, nearly ali vcndsd
TO those earning thsir living In largo com
mercial establishments
The Same tale was repeated by ons who did
good deal Of traffic in this way with Indies
CT the theatrical persuasion "Lor' bless
You be exclaimed, without hair dye sogIls
Of those women would bs nowhere What
would you cay, II you was q manager. II g
girl with gray locks came 70 you and vansod
an engagen>nti IsIpcct you'd show her the
door pretty quickly. I'm not talking II thoss
vaia youns females who turn black % gold
or rcd to brown / u1ean tbs chorIsser II -
TO 20, s.l1 good locking, but who IL beginning
20 show The powder ruf On her bad There
Int ons there Int twenty, there Lat
hundred, bat Ia BET there's a thOg2and or
more ia the United Kingdom Their great
grandrnothsr7 had % wear wigs; their Do
scendan:s arr deal more comfortable with
q littIs Harmless coloriRg matter On their own
hair And - tho steTy ruzs al ialzitaia-
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