The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

| laid the letters by and dreamed
The dear dead past to life again;
The present and its purpose seemed
A fading vision full of pain.
Then, with a sudden shout of glee,
The children burst into the room;
Their little faces were to me
AS sunrise in the cloud of gloom.
The world was fun of meaning still,
For love will live though loved ones die!
1 turned upon Iifes darkened hill
And gloried in the morning sky.
Boston Transcript.
The peroxide blonde, says the New York
Sun, is utterly out of date, but any one
who argues feminine wisdom and reform
from that is sadly mistaken. The women
haven't changed their principles. They
have changed only the color of their hair
The varying shades of auburn and chest
nut are the thing, and the bleached are
becoming the dyed. On the whole, it is
rather an improvement. Titan red, artis-
tically concocted, isn't so aggressive as
golden blonde. Then too il doesn't quar-
rel so loudly with compilations never in
tended, by nature, to consort with golden
tresSes and 1t doesn't show the same in
discreet tendency to turn olive green with
age, which marked the blondine's hair OF
course, it is a nuisance for those who were
blonde TO go in for auburn; but after all
they are better off than the brunette who
must jump to Titan glory without any in
termediary stage. Dark hair must be
bleached before it can be colored auburn !;
so the artficially blonde are already half
way along the road. That is the reward
for having kept up with the procession
in the past.
The blondes who are not affecting red
hair are lapsing back TO brunette. Some
of them do it by the natural process, and
have heads that look like an impressionist
picture or paint manufacturers sample
card but there is no excuse for that state
of things unless ones purse is at low
ebb The thing to do if ones blondness
is artificial and one wants TO return to
dark hair is to 80 to a first-cass hair
dresser and have him dye the b'eached
locks their original color. The new growth
of hair next the head will naturally come
in dark; and in the course of time the
dyed hair can be clipped away, inch by
inch, giving place to the genuine article.
The auburn hair like the blonde, re-
uuires constant encouragement. The color
is fairly permanent; but the new growth
of the roots of the hair should be treated
with the red dye, at least once a month,
and, preferably, once every two weeks.
Some women try to attend to that phase
of the dyeiug for themselves, but the re-
suits are usually disastrous, both to the
hair and the scalp and it is far wiser to
entrust the care of artifcially colored hair
10 an expert coiffeur. Bleaching and 90
oring unouestionably do affect the quality
and vitality of the hair. The hairdressers
acknowledge that, but insist that the dam
age is very slight. If the work is done
scientifically and only the best prepara-
lions used.
"Bungllng, hasty and cheap work will
ruin any hair said New York hair
dresser, "but hair can be dyed so that the
life and gloss will remain in it. 1t Is very
hard TO accomplish that result in the case
of bleaching, but that, too. can be done.
by patience and skill. The red hair, so
popular just now. is hard to obtain in
lust the right shade, but it usually has a
beautiful gloss and sheen. We have COM
paratively few calls for complete color
ing of the hair. save from theatrical peo-
ple-not nearly so many as we had five or
ten years ago; but 1t would surprise You
| to know how many charming women come
| TO us to have the first gray hairs colored.
1t is easy to do that without injuring the
| hair in the least, and without any posi-
| bility of the dye being noticeable.
For some reason or other-possibly gem
eral nerve condition, or perhaps too fire.
| duent shampooing prematurely gray hair
| is becoming more common each year. The
women hate it-even the most sensible or
| them; and / don't blame them. One very
| prominent CLUB woman IN the city who .s
| a model of intelligence and strong mind
edness, has perfectly white lock right in
| the middle of her pompadour and comes
| here every two weeks to have IL doctored.
| That's proof Of her intelligence, ! say
| What's the use of looking like a freak
when one can avoid it? one amusing thing
| I'm our business is the number of nice old
| ladies who come In with a guilty air and
| ask whether there Is any way of making
| streaked gray hair uniform grey or
! white It can be done, but do not under
| take It, 1t Is a dangerous proc b.
cause of the very strong applications nee
essary; and there have been good many
cases OF brain trouble resulting from the
| treatment / do not care TO take the
chances, but il is easy to find hair dress
ers who are less scrupulous and who will
| not explain the danger to a patron"
Evidently the women are not growing in
grace and wisdom so far as hair dye is
| concerned, but men have reformed. The
proprietor of a downtown barber shop pop-
| tilar with Wall street men, lamented the
glory that has departed ut Is a funny
| thing" he said 70 a Sun reporter, how
tastes change Now. when / started I'm
down here we spent more time dyeing
l hair and boards and mustaches than we
] did in shaving and hair cutting. No