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Show NUN3 FIRST TO POWDER HAtn. Then Custom 'Quickly Spread to Women of Fashion. Tho custom of powdering tho hnlr dntcs hack as far ns the sixteenth century and was first introduce t dj tho nuns In French convents i who had occasion to leavo tlic tors for nny reason wero wo.i .( powder their hnlr so as to mako U p pear gray and give them n venerable look. Tho fashionable dames wore so struck with tho novel effect of whlto powder on dnrk hnlr that they soon appropriated tho device as o&o of the arts of tho worldly toilet. Out of this Brew tho use of tints in the hnlr. Tho Itomnn women often uaed blue powder, nnd Inter, In 1R00 Kin-press Kin-press Eugenie set tho fashion or using gold powder. Homo under tho empire nnd Orroco during the tlmo of Pericles Per-icles wero seized with n mnnla for golden hnlr. Tho belles nnd fops of tho day devised sovcral methods whereby black locks might bo rhnnged to golden yellow, but blenching blench-ing did not always succeed. Consequently Conse-quently qulto n trade wna established with tho fnlr-hnlrcd tribes beyond tho Alps, who sold their locks to Latin merchants to bo worn on tho heads nf Hpmnn dandles. |