The sun., 1889-04-28
HAIR DYE AND UAGE EiRNERS.
Mature WorkinEmen Driven to Usc It In
Enormous Quantities In Order to Keep
Up In the Race with the Young.


There is now going on n mighty struggle
which is almost essentially a question OF age.
Yet it is one which affects thousands and
thousands OF men and women. who are toers
and bread winners
On Al! sides preference is given by employers
to youth over more advanced years. Atsalom.
in the yigor Of his Juvenility is content 10 re-
moro mature rival In wholosnie warehoisos.
In public companies i'll retail establishments.
in 'ile stro"t. on the road and the rail men and
women who arc still hal" and hearty in mind
and body, have been sot a,!rfr Ia make room
Tor tie Joungcr-and ch"nper generation.
They are willing 70 work for mo ;snme wage.
but the masters will have uunc OF them.
In thir distress they turn to comforter not
to the workh"use, i they cnn avoid :! 1oine;
trades unions, but 10 iisar9 himself tho per.
rulnier. the huirdrcs~cr, III" barber. This
amount Of hair dyo used by artisans and labor-
croascs day By day. II Is not vanity which
imrcs them to the practice, it is life. for which
The testimony on The subject is undcninhle.
A kH,+nt Of the razor in the north OF iondQn
Iif Snr GSe NV vii" III S"rRn.men IH fSr the cns"a4 t
given above. They take it home" ho SAID.
&ad 4 get their MI%1 to Lay It on IN ,a ma
EMPLOYEES. proprietols OF big nliilinery cstab.
!li.hnents wont have women with gray hair On
You've no idea what misery I've been aware
OF In familieS from gray hair knew
suda"n @n iro% "Yn iiness ! thnE S"a" h9 hHr H Viii:
cned, and his employer took the earliest oppor.
tunity OF giving him the sack, ana getting
younger man in his place. he couldnt obtain
another situation anywhere. and TIE moro
trouble he had tho older he looked. At last,
when he was at his wits end. some one told
him 70 get his hair dyed. and, what's more. lent
him the money 10 have ii done. We'll. hos COT
another place. It's loss money: but you'd
hardly know him again. Tye seen scores iHs
him, Your young folk may sHeer a. dye and
crack JOKES on tho sublcrr, but as tru" as I'm
not Dutchman IT'S been The salvation OF many
hard. working men and WOmcu" \ lady drHl'
ing IN human hair near st. IancraS, wien
sounded on tho subject. admitted IN" prac'ice.
and allowed that she dealt very largely III dye.
nearly all Nended TO hose earning their iiNinR
In large commercial establishments. "
The same tae was repeated by ono who cld
good deal OF tralitc in this way with ladies a
the theatrical persuasion. LOr bless you,
lie exrlaimed, without hair dye -omo Of those
women would be nowhere. What would you
say If you was manager, II n uirI with gray
locks came to you and wanted an engage.
ment? expect you'd show hor the door pretty
quickly. I'm not talking o. lhofc vaIn Young
fenlalrs who turn black 10 gold orrrdto brown.
! moan tho rhurist"r OF - to A. St!I good loik-
ing, but who Is beginning t. show the powder
puif on h"r head. There isn't ore, there isnt
twenty. there isn't u hundred but d IKE 70
bet there's n thousand or more in tho United
Kingdom. Thor great grAndmothcrs had 10
wear wigs their descendants are deal moro
comfortable with llulo harmless coonng
matter on their own hair" And 80 tic story
runs Lu iliinitum,