Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1911 — DYE HAIR TO MATCH MOTORS [ARTICLE]

DYE HAIR TO MATCH MOTORS

Lawsuit Reveals Peculiar Ways of Society Women of East—Photographer Wins His Case. New York. —That society women in New York are dyeing their hair, not only to match the interior fittings of their motor cars but even to match the changes of the seasons, was the statenient made by William P. 8. Earle. Mr. Earle was delighted over winning a suit for |6O brought by him against Mrs. Louis* Balfour in payment for coloring a photograph made for the defendant Mrs. Balfour Is said to be a relative of the British premier.. The photographic artist bad colored the picture to show brown hair. Mrs. Balfour wanted her hair Titian in the picture. "I told her," said Earle, "that her hair was brown, but she insisted on Titian. “Then I charged her for the work and she would not pay. . “The hair among the women of the 'four hundred’ changes with the seasons. When 1 tinted the picture of Mrs. Balfour her hair was brown. When she sued her hair was Titian. Formerly the women of society were willing to let It go at matching their hair to suit their gowns, but now they must match their hair to suit the fittings of their limousines."