Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1920 — ALL RIGHT TO BLEACH HAIR [ARTICLE]

ALL RIGHT TO BLEACH HAIR

New York Magistrate Settles Question Which Has Long Been More ’or Less in Controversy. If thy right eye offend thee pluck It out. If vour hair Is not the shade vou dote on bleach it 5 , color it or cut it off if you wish. Whose business is It? A mother-in-law recently accused a handsome youqg blond, of bleaching her hair —using peroxide on it. A magistrate had to settle this matter: and the newspapers made much of it. and one would think from perusing what they had to say there is some law, statutory or unwritten. that makes it almost a felony to discolor the hair. Nothing of the kind, declares the New York Telegraph. Many women bleach their Jhair, and it is quite all right If they wish to do so. "Darkhaired girls and women and those with black hair frequently turn the color of their locks to that of a brickbat, with henna. And red-haired ladles sometimes change their color to that of yellow field corn. That is their affair and no one has a right to complain. Many folk twit those who have thus improved on nature, but they will do so no more—the magl»trate has settled that