The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-06-17
HAIR DYE AND WAGE Farmers.
Nature Workingmon Driven to ESQ 1t Ia
Enormous Quantities. ~

Mature WorAin-mcu Owen to ESQ it ia
Enormous Quantities. ~
There is nou going on mighty struggle
which IS almost essentially q question of ago.
Yet 70 is ono which gles thousands and
tholoodsos mou aud women, Who ere toilera
and oreai winners. =
On all s.ies preference given by employ.
ors TO youth o,.f, moro advanced years
Ahaoia, ig the vi-or ,ol his jufeuDity, IS
content 10 receive 10 "a ~. pr cent les
moucy than lis moro mature rival In
wholesale warehouses, in public companies,
Ia retail establishments, Ill the street, on the
road End tho rail- Mon nnl women who ore
still hale and hearty In mind and body inye
boon ST airift 20 make room for the younger
and chcAer-geucrati They are willing
to work for tine same wages. bat tho masters
willhaye none Of tlem
In their distress they tun % d comforter
not 10 .Ao workhonse. il they can avoid so
doing; not 90 The charitable Institutions, not
% tho trades unions, but o. tho Figaro him
self, the pcwnqui0r. the hairires9r, thc BAY
Der THO amouutof h1irdyc usedb artisans
and laborers Of all sort IL not only enormous,
but increases day hy day. IL il not vanity
which inlels.them 20 tho practice; IL Is life,
for which IL j. well worth dyeinZ.
The testimony on tho subject is undeniablo
4 knight of tho razor in the north oi London
te.fihes that Dee * doing a tremendous trade
in hair dye with woringmen for the roaso1is
given above. "Thoy take it home, h. said,
"ani get their wives 20 lay iton In many
cascs il j. an ABSOLUTE necessity with female
employees Preprietorsof blg millinery estab-
lisiiments won't have woinen with gray hair
on the premises
You've no idea what misery I've been
aware Of in families from gray hair. know
a man. father Of six children. All ola sud
den. from illness, think. bis hair whitened
and his employer took the earliest oppOrtu-
nifty Of giving him the sack, and getting a
Younger man ia Misplace lie couldn't obtain
another situation anywhere. and the moro
nouble De had the older he booked 40 ast
when DO was 40 his wits emil, some one told
hin % get his hair dyel aud, what's more
lent him the money DO have it done We'll
he's got another place. It's lass money, but
You'd hardly know him again. I've soen
s,ores Ike him. Your young fox may snler
at dye and cruck ioko, on tho subject, but as
true as I'm not Dnlcimn it'. boeu the sal
walton az many harl working mon and WON
Gu" y lady dealing ia human lair near 81
paucrls. when sounded ou the subject, ad
United the practice, and allowed that she
dealt very largely Ia dye nearly oil vonded
TO fhose earning iheir living In large com
n'ogclal c,ahii lmcuis
Tho same tale H-s repeated by ono who did
q good deal ~ traffic ia this way with ladies
OK the theatrical persuasion Tor bless
you, hc exclaimed, "wi.host hair dyc some
Of those women would ha nowhere What
aouA you say, ii you was manager, If d
girl with gray locks camo % you and wanted
an engagement Iexrect you'd show her tho
door pretty quickly lmnot talking Of tho,a
vain young females who turn black TO gold
or rel 10 brown mean tho chofistcr Of s.
20 30. still cool loosing bat who Is beginning
70 show the Po,s,ior pun CA hcr head. There
isn't ono, there isn't twenty, there isn't a
hundred, but Ia bet there's thousand on
more IN the United Kingdom. Their great
yaudmothers had 20 wear Wigs, their dc
sccalants arc q deal m0rs comfortable with
q little harmlcs, cOi0rilg matter o. their own
hair" And o. tie story runs al inlultum
London Telegraph.