Show death in S of wealth just after he had discovered the richest vein of tungsten ore ever found in this country george spatt ley a veteran prospector was killed by an explosion of dynamite in his claim in boulder county colorado NUNS FIRST TO POWDER HAIR then custom qu akly spread to women of fashion the custom of powdering the hair dates back as tar far as the sixteenth century and was first introduced by the nuns in french convents those who had occasion to leave the clois clots for any reason were wont to powder their ha r so as to nake it ap pear gray and give them a venerable look the fashionable dames were so struck with the novel effect ot of w white bite on dark hair that i they soon appropriated the device as one ot of the arts of the worldly toilet out of 0 this grew the use of tints in the hair the roman women often used blue powder and later in 1860 em press eugenie set the fashion of using gold powder rome under the empire and greece during the time of per ides were seized with a mania for golden hair the belles and tops of the day devised several methods whereby black locks might be changed to golden yellow but bleach ing did not always succeed consequently quite a trade was established with the tribes beyond the alps who sold their locks to latin merchants to be worn on the heads of roman dandies |