The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-19
HAIR.pYE FOB woRKMEn.
Drfven to Use It fu Order to Keep Up il
 the Race with tine Young.

Driven to Use It fn Order to Keep Up il
 the Race with the Young.
 There is now going On q mighty struggle which is almost essentially . question of age. Yet it is one whicl affects thousands and thousands ot 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 twenty to thirty per cent. less money than his more mature rival. h whyle- 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 youne eer-and cheaper-generation. They are will ing to work fer the same w4ge, but the masters will have none of them.
 In their distress they turn to a comforter-not to the wcrk-house, fl they can avoid So doing; not to the charitable institutions not ie adas union. but to Figaro himself, the per ruquier, the hairdresser, the 2rDcr. The amount of hair-dye used by acti- sans and laborers of all sorts is not only enormous, but increases day by day. It is net vanity which impels them to the practice, it is life, for which It is well worth dyeing.
 The testimony on the subject is un- deniable. A knight of the razor in the north of London testifes that he is doing a tremendous trade in hair dye with working-men for the reasons given above. ''Thcy take it home he said, 'and get their wives to lay it on. In many cases it is an absolute necessity with female employes. 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 aware of in families from gray hair. knew man, father of six children. All of 9 sudden, from ill., ness, think, his hair whitened, and his employer took tho earliest oppor- tunity Of giving him the sack, and getting a younger man in his place. He couldn't obtain another situation anywhere, and the more trouble he had the older he looked. At last. when he was at his wit S end. some one told him to get his hair dyed, and, what more, lent him the money 10 have it done. Well. he's got another place. It's less money; but you hardly know him again. I've seen scores like him. Your young folk may sneerl at dye and crack jokes on the subject, but as true as I'm not Dutchman it 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 tho 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 of traflc In thlS way With ladies Ot the theatrical persuasion. "Lor' bless you" he exclaimed. with out hair-dye some of those women would be nowhere. What would you say. if you was manager, if girl with gray locks came to you and wanted an engagementP 1 expect 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 tho i powder puff on her head. There isn't | one, thero isn't twenty, there isn't a hundred, but I'd like to bet there's a | thousand or more in the United King dom. Their great-grandmothers had | to wear wigs; their descendants are a ! deal moro comfortable with little harmless coloring matter on their 1. own hair" And so the story runs ad infnitum. Telegraph.