The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-26

New York, Feb. 15.-"Are you 60
ing into white?" said the lady hair
dresser (for the best hair dressers
now are women to her smart custo-
mer.
Everybody goes into white as
soon as the hair begins to turn. It's
all the rage just now, since Mrs.
John Jacob Astor went into white
at IS. Women whose hair was
turned gray used to go into henna,
but white is more expensive and more
becoming, too. No, I'm not talking
about wardrobes. I'm talking about
| the color of your hair. You better
go into white. 1t would just suit
you, dearie.
The endearing epithet lost the
hair dresser a customer. But that
night at the opera the woman who
had cried over her first gray hairs
in the morning and had summoned
the hairdresser to dye these ravages
of time found that she was in the
fashion, and that gray hair was not
only Sought after but intensified by
every possible means.
/ Cornstarch, the powder puff and
all the accessories to whiten gray
and white hair that were in use
hundred years ago are now in favor
again with the turn of the wheel of
j fashion, which once more DEGREES a
woman's natural white hair to be
more beautiful and more becoming
than dyed tresses.
Like Court Beauties.
The same cornucopia which was
used to protect the face while pow
dering the hair of the beauties of
the court of George l serves now to
keep the powder off the faces of the
present-day bellies whose hair is
whitened by means of rain of pow
der.
The most beautiful women of
| America, headed by Mrs. John Jacob
Aston, have allowed their hair to
grow white, and, by the use of pow
der and artificial hair, have enhanced
the dazzling effect OF the couture
more becoming than anything else
both to the youthful and mature
face.
Women who have never been able
to claim any title to beauty sudden
ly, with prematurely white hair, have
become as charming as Old-fashioned
miniatures, the whiteness of the hair
softening the features, subduing any
defects in the complexion.
Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, sister
of Mrs. Roche-Batonyi, is letting her
hair grow absolutely white and looks
more than ever like youthful POM
padour.
Then there is Mrs. Egerton Webb,
still enthusiastically admired, whose
! ivory tinted skin takes on an added
+ brilIiancy from the wilderness of her
' hair
> Women whose features are less
perfect and whose faces have had a
+ tendency to draw into hard lines with
, advancing age find teh lost softness
! iof youth suddenly restored to their
\ faces when their hair turns white.
e No Artificial Way.
2 Usually the becoming of white
S hair is called to a wOman's attention
Il at some fancy dress party, where
! powdered hair is necessary. And af-
! ter that a woman ceases to feel the
7 onslaught of the dreaded bacillus
e whose function in life seems to be
?, to eat up the color pigments in the
II hair.
: White hair cannot be produced by
any artificial means. Any hairdress
/ err who can invent something tha
IS will turn the hair white without de
" stroying it has fortune alread!
Il waiting for him.
Snow-white hair is more expensive
g than any other kind in the world
and brings up to SIS and 500 al
e ounce, so that the elaborate cOiffurt
y of snowy artificial locks is anything
II but inexpensive.
le The woman who is letting her hal
= grow white is more careful of tn,
lie arrangement of her hair than at an.
S other time in life. Dishevelled gra.
~ or white locks are absolutely painful
j. to look upon.
)L So the white-haired woman take
~ especial pains with her couture ant
IL usually affects some style taken from
ST the paint and powder period, usini
=Iall the powder, but not the paint.
Mrs. Samuel Untermeyer, for in
4 stance, affects a Louis Quinze styl
=" of hairdressing. which has been i'm
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