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Show Effect of Hair Dye. I was talking with a friend whose hair and whiskers are almost biiow white at 45. "Yon may not believe it," said he, "bnt I was fool enough to dye my hair for ten years. I began to get gray at nineteen years of age. I wont to the druggist, and he mixed me up a hairdye, with sugar of lead and sulphur and other ingredients, which I began to use. I went into the army and held a commission, commis-sion, and wherever I went I was vain enough to carry that hair dye. I would put aside necessary . articles from my luggage in order tocarry that dye with me. "After the war I bought a plantation, and down there among the negroes and the alligators I was just as particular to use my hair dye daily as if I was going to a ball among fashionable people. I came to New York and went into business. busi-ness. One morning a friend from outside the city met me onJJroadway. 'I want to go to Beaver street,' said he. I couldn't tell him where Beaver street was. I took him to my office, right past Beaver street, and sent him to his destination by the office boy. Then I got a cab and drove to a physician, to whom I related my iom of memory. He looked me over and said it was the hair dye, and that unlem I quit usingit I would havesoftening of the brain. Well, I quit, and now I wonder at myself when I think what a foolish man I was during those years." New York Press. |