The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-06-05
HAIR-DYE FOR WORKMEN.
Driven to Use 1t In Order to Keep Up Il
the Race with the Young.

Driven to Use 1t in Order to Keep Up in
the Race with the Young.
There is now going on 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 toilers and
bread winners. t.
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. 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 q
cOmforter-not to 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 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, fol-
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 a tremendous trade in hair.
dye with working-men for the reasons
given above. ''They take 1t home, '
he said, "and get their wives to lay il
on. In many cases 1t is an absolute
necessity with female employees. Pro
prietors Of big millinery establishments
won't have women with gray hair or
the premises.
you've no idea what misery I've
been aware of in families from gray
hair. / knew man, father of sil
children. All of a sudden, from i'll
ness, think. his hair whitened. ant
his employer took the earliest oppor
tunity of giving him the sack, ant
getting q younger man in his place
! He couldn't obtain another situation
anywhere, and the more trouble hi
had the older he looked. At last, whel
he was at his wits end. some one tolt
him to get his hair dyed. and, what
more, lent him the money to have i
done. Well, he's got another place
It's less money; but you'd hardl!
know him again. I've seen scores
like him. Your young folk may snee
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, wher
sounded on the subject, admitted tn,
practice, and allowed that she deal
very largely in dye, nearly all vende'
to those earning their living in larg
commercial establishments.
The same tale was repeated b,
one who did q good deal o
traffic in this way with ladies o
the theatrical persuasion. "Lor
bless YOU" he exclaimed. with
out hair-dye some of those womel
would be nowhere. What would yo
say. If you was manager, if a cir
with gray locks came to you an
wanted an engagement 1 expec
you'd show her the door pretty quick
ly. I'm not talking OF those val
young females who turn black to gol,
or red to brown. l mean the choriste
of thirty-five to forty, still good look
ing. but who is beginning to show tn
powder puff on.her head. There ism
one, there isn't twenty, there isn't
hundred, but I'd like to bet there's
thousand or more in the United Kine
dom. Their great-grandmothers ha
to wear wigs; their descendants are
deal more comfortable with littl
harmless coloring matter on thei
own hair" And so the story runs a
infinitum. London Telegraph.
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