The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1889-05-31
HAIR-DYE FOR wORKMEN.
Driven 90 Use II In Order to Keep Up In
tho Race with the Young.

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| the Race with the Young.
There Is now going on mighty
struggle which Is almost essentially
question OF age. Yet 1t 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 10 youth over more ad-
vanced years. Absalom, in the vigor
Of his juyenility, Is content to receive
twenty 10 thirty per cent less money
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 10 work for the same wage, but
the masters will have none OF them.
In their distress they turn TO
comforter-not 10 the wOrk-house, IL
they can avoid so doing; not to the
charitable institutions, not the trades
union, but TO Figaro himself, the per-
ruquier, the hairdrcsser, the barber.
The amount OF haiDdyc 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 un-
deniable. A knight OF the razor in
the north OF London testifes that he
is doing n 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 IL Is an absolute
necessity with female employees. Pro-
prietors Of big millinery establishments
wont have women with gray hair on
the premises.
you've no idea what misery I've
been aware Of in families from gray
hair. 1 knew man, father Of six
children. All OF "a sudden, from i'll
ness, think. his hair whitened, and
his employer took the earliest oppor-
tunity Of giving him the sack, and
getting younger man in his place.
lie couldn't obtain another situation
anywhere, and the more trouble he
had the older he looked. At last, when
he was at his wits end. some one told
him TO get his hair dyed, and. what's
more, lent him the money to have 1t
done. Well, he's got another place.
- hrt "
know him again. I've seen scores
like him Your young folk may sneer
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 OF
traffic in this way with ladies OF
the theatrical persuasion. 'Lor'
bless you" he exclaimed, with
out hair-dye some OF those women
would be nowhere. What would you
say, il you was n manager, IL girl
with gray locks came to you and
wanted an engagement | 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. i mean the chorister
of thirty-hvo to forty, still good look
ing, but who is beginning TO show the
powder puff on her head. There isn't
one, there isn't twenty. there isn't n
hundred but I'd like to bet there's n
thousand or more in the United King
dom. Their grcat-grandmothers had
to wear wigs; their descendants are Il
deal more comfortable with little
harmless coloring matter on their
own hair And so the story runs ad
infnitum. London Telegraph.