Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — LET ’EM DIE HAPPY. [ARTICLE]

LET ’EM DIE HAPPY.

Washington, Jan. 25.—Warning to the public to be careful in the use of hair dyes, rouge, hair removers and similar cosmetics because many of them contain poisonous ingredients, was given today by the bureau of standards. “Rouge for -cheeks or lips has been the cause of serious mercury poisoning,” says the bureau statement, “owing to the presence of vermillion (mercury sulphide). Hair removers are in general quite corrosive in character such as calcium, sulphidrate with calcium hydroxide and sometimes poispnous as calcium hydroxide, with arsenic trisulphide. “Dyes used in blackening gray hair generally contain one or more of the salts of silver, lead, copper, irom or bismuth, and can cause serious poisoning when taken internally. It is well to treat all materials of this character as poisohs.”