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Show NUNS FIRST TO POWDER HAIR. Then Custom Quickly Spread to Women of Fashion. Tho custom of powfiorlng tho hair dates back as far as thu sixteenth century and was first Introduced by tho nuns in French convents. Those ! who had occasion to Icavo tho clols- ters for any reason wcro wont to f powder their hair so as to mako it np-f np-f pear gray and glvo them a vcncrablo V 4 look. Tho fashionable dames wero ' so struck (With tho novel effect of whlto powder on dark hair that they ! soon appropriated tho dovlce as ono I of tho arts of the worldly toilet. Out of this grow tho uso of tints In the hair. Tho Roman women often used blue powdery' and later, In 18G0, Empress Em-press Eugenic set tho fashion of using gold powder. Homo under tho cmplr and Qrcoco during tho timo' of Pericles Per-icles were seized with a mania for golden hair. The belles and fops of the day devised several methods whereby black locks might be changed to goldon yellow, but bleaching bleach-ing did not always succeed. Consequently Conse-quently qulto a trade was established I with the fatr-halrod tribes beyond the Alps, who sold tholr locks to Latin merchants to be worn on the heads of Roman dandles. |