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Show A Fashion Killed by a Tax. Fashion sometimes gets a deathblow from government. This was the case with hair powder, in common use by Englishmen English-men just before the beginning of the present pres-ent century. Mr. Pitt carried through parliament a measure imposing a tax on all persons using hair powder. He estimated esti-mated that this impost would bring to the revenue 210,000 annually. Instead it caused the demise of the custom. The few who paid the tax were termed guinea pigs, because of the sum charged each person. |