Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-10
HAIR DYEING COSTLY.
A Tonsorial Artist Tells the Secre
 and Prefers Natures Ways.

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 From the New York Mail and Express
 "Dyeing the hair and whiskers is cost ly luxury" said a fashionable uptown barber. The tonsorisl artist honed his ra- zor, cut thread of hair on his thumb nail and continued:
 Clair and whisker dyeing is not popu- lar now. Fifteen years ago there was big money in it for barbers, but now only a vain few use dye constantly. To dye a full set of whiskers and hair five dollars is charged. It requires from two to four hours to dye a thick head of hair and 8 handful of chin whiskers. Mind you, this work is not done in the barber shop, but in the private room of the man who desires to have black hair instead of gray Great skill is required in dying hair, for if the work is not properly done one wash ing will turn the hair white again. Two bottles of liquid stuff, which call No. l and No. 2, are used in the dyeing process. No. 1 is put on carefully, and after the hair is dried No 2 is applied. Where the skill comes in is in keeping the liquid from getting in the scalp or tine skin.
 If it gets in the scalp it makes a black spot that will be indelible for a month or so unless removed immediately. To re- move it dry shampoo is often used When the hair is artistically dyed, and warranted fast color, that is not the end of expenses, for in four days at the ut most the hair will grow enough to show a little gray at the end and the root. Then the fine work of the artist is required to hide the white tell-tsle places. Only one dollar is charged, though, for this work
 I am sorry to say that no dye has been invented to deceive the human eye. The middle-aged man who thinks he should hide his gray locks in dye, gets up, sur veys himself with satisfaction in the mir TOT, and have no doubt imsgines that no one will suspect his artificial method to have dark hair. A partially blind boy in a jay town could tell hair or whiskers dyed. l have few customers who pay me five dollars once every month to dye the hair and whiskers, and nearly two dollars a week to keep the color fast at the roots and ends.
 Strange to say, moustache dyring is con- fined to young men just turning thirty or thirty-fve years of age. They see strand or two of gray in their mOustache, and. instead of having the hairs pulled out, they dye them all it black l remember the time, several years ago, when all had to do was to tell yonug man that his moustache was sunburnt or changing color to get him to dye it It only costs twen- ty-five cents to have the moustache dyed. We have a little pan that fits under the moustsche so as to catch he liquid and prevent its falling on the skin. But high toned people do not care much for dye these days. Whyi do not know, unless the doctors have told them that dye is in furious to the hair. It deadens the hair robs it of its natural vitality, and where hair is predisposed to come out it helps in that direction instead of retarding.
 Policemen and fremen still dye their moustaches more than any other people. I know some barber shops that make con tracts with firemen by the month, and moustache dyeing is always included. I have been nearly forty years in the barber injurious than anything put on the hair, and in contest with nature it will have to keep in the background.
 Carried a Mile on a Cyclone.
 From the Atlanta Constituiion-l
 "In the year 1882, about the latter part of March, I, with some of my friends who were on a visit to me. went out to an old edifice about two hundred yards from the house one evening to enjoy ourselves over game of seven-up.
 "when We left the house not one of us had the least idea that the bright rays of the sun would be followed by the black wings of destruction.
 'I remember we'll. we had been playing about two or three hours had the ace, deuce, queen, and Jack of trumps. My opponent had just thrown down the ten spot of clubs and I was just in the sct of taking it with my jack when I was arrested by loud, numbering noise that sounded like the roaring of a train, but A hundred times louder.
 'I jumped to my feet and ran to the door. What saw as 1 put my head through the opening will remain with me to my dy' ing day.
 ssThe space above me was as dark as pitch, except when the flash of lightning made little light, and by one of these flashes could see old timbers, shingles, tree tops and everything imaginable flying in every direction
 'T sprang to the middle of the room, clasped my friend to my breast, and cried: | We are lost. Oh, God, save usl
 ''The words had scarcely left my lips when, oh, horrors, I saw the top of the old barn torn from its bed and hurled to de. struction, folded in the arms of the mighty | destroyer.
 'sThe old logs were being scattered around me. I felt the floor moving under my feet, everything turned dark, and knew no more until opened my eyes and found the kindly face of the doctor bend. | ing over me.
 'I had been hurled over a mile from the old barn, and how got there without be | ing killed the reader can best imagine. Three teeth knocked out, my left arm and two ribs broken were all the injuries re. eeived.
 'On inquiring afterward I found out that my friends never received a scratch. When the top of the old barn was torn of they ran out in the yard and lay fiat on tho ground, huggiDg the roots of large stump.
 'Tt has been nearly ten years since tha terrible night, and never see a cloud ris' but I can almost feel myself being hurlet through the air
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