Show DYEING AND A fashion which perished with tile the french Emp ireThe modern iden no one except policemen firemen especially exempt firemen and a few chivalrous and ancient gentlemen now dyes his mustache and the number ot of the men w ho bo change tile the color of their hair by artificial means is smaller still when the policeman with five service stripes was sworn it was tho custom ot or almost everybody to use dye napoleon ail III 1 was v ag P pait a 1 t 1 lally al ly responsible tor for this he 1 biad a d a go gorgeous i g e 0 u s mustache ni usta elle blade black and with nice lice long ends ready tor for a wax polish like a wholesome stove ile he set tho the fashion for paris and paris Faris for america now the custom has almost gone out and the purple black ra m eustache Is rare throughout the land an ali old barber who has been in the business a good lifetime explained the change twenty years ago a third of the men that camo came here wanted their moustaches mou staches dyed A man with a heavy and fast growing mustache had bad to have it dyed every week and it was a good thing for us even ten years ago there were many 0 of them left but the fall of the french empire and the emperor left tho the stylo style without support and the character of tho mustache changed instead of being bein long glossy and black short and stubby mustaches came into fashion cubans and southern men began to raise mustaches without ever shaving their upper lips this made tho the hairs come out in graceful clusters instead of spikes and long stiff hairs bairs there any use of dyeing a mus inus tacho facto unless you raise a long one and way out the ends so these short clustering mustaches changed the dyeing fashion the knowledge of the chemicals employed had it a great deal to do with it powerful pon bertul acids and compounds are at the base of all dyes and I 1 hair restorers that do anything it if weak solutions of harmless things are used they will ill have no effect while a di ug pow PON ei ful enough toc to change bange the color of the hair bair must have somo some effect on oil the scalp and the brain as uie tile base of all hair dyes was nitrate of silver at the same time with the notoriety of cases of TO poisoning hOlling from tom hair dye came a reaction of fashion in favor of gray hair and laid bald heads beads the young man who vrho lad had a patch of scalp showing through the top of his head bead instead of concealing it lad had his hair cut so that it showed and lie ho was envied by his fellow young men it also alsa became fashionable tor for a young man with black blacic hair to have a few gray threads in it it made him bim mi ail object ot of interest on account of 01 supposed ell P woes boes anil ti trials bals that made his hair grow prematurely cray iray dyeing tho the hair would destroy tuis tills charm charin and dyeing went speedily out of f fashion ash ion 1 ne new w york S sun un |