Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-07-17
hA,R.pve FOR woRkMEn.
Driven 10 Cse It In Order Co Keep Up N
the RSoo with the Young.


There 10 now going on a mighty
struggle which Is almost essentially q
question of age. Yet it is one which
affects thousands and thousands OF
men and women who are toilers and
bread winners
On all sides preference is given by
employers to youth over more ad.
vanced years Absalom, in the vigor
OF his juvenility, is content to receive
than his more mature rival. In whole
sale 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 the younger-and
cheaper-generation. They are will
ing to work for the same wage, but
the masters will have none of them.
In their distress they turn to a
comforter-not to the work-house, If
they can avoid so doing; not to the
charitable institutions, not the trades
union. but to Figaro himself, the PERI
ruqui Ter, the hairdresser, the barber.
The amount of hair-dye used by arti-
sans 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 1t is well worth dyeing.
The testimony on the subject is I'M
deniable. A knight of the razor in
the north Of London testities that he
Is doing a tremendous trade in hair
dye with working-men for the reasons
given above. "They take it home"
he said, land get their wives to lay it
on. In many cases it is an absolute
necessity with female employees. Pro-
prietors of big millinery establishments
won't have women with gray hair on
the premises.
you've no idea what misery I've
been awa"e of in families from gray
hair. knew man, q father of six
children. All of a sudden, from ILL
ness, l think. his hair whitened, and
his employer took the earliest oppor-
tunity of giving him the sack, and
getting e younger man in his place.
He couldn't obtain another situation
anywhere, and the more trouble he
had tho older he looked. At last. when
he was ut his wits end, some one told
him to get his hair dyed, and, what 8
more, lent him the money to have it
done. Well, he's got another place.
It's loss money; but you'd hardly
know him again. I've seen scores
like him. Your young folk may sheer
at dye and crack jokes on the subject,
but as true as I'm not a Dutchman it's
been the salvation of many hard-work-
ing men and women" A lady dealing
In human hair near st. Pancras, when
sounded on the subject, admitted the
practice, and allowed that she dealt
very largely in dye, nearly all vended
: to those earning their living in large
commercial establishments.
The Same tale was repeated by
one who did good deal oil
traffic in this way with ladies oil
the theatrical persuasion. "Lor'
bless you" he exclaimed. with.
out hair-dye some of those women
! would BIO nowhere. What would you
say, II you was q manager, II a girl
with gray locks camo TO you and
wanted On engagement I expec,
you'd show her the door pretty quick.
ly. I'm not talking Of those vain
young females who turn black to gold
| or red to brown. / mean the chorister
of thirty-fve to forty, still good look.
ing, but who is beginning to show the
powder puff on hor head. There ISM
one, there isn't twenty, there isn't 9
hundred, but I'd like to bot there's 8
thousand or more in the United King
dom. Their greatgrandmothers haG
I to wear wigs; their descendants are Q
deal more comfortable with o little
harmless coloring matter on thei,
own hair" And so the story runs az
infnitum. London Telegraph.