Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1906 — Puncturing a Fallacy. [ARTICLE]

Puncturing a Fallacy.

The barber applied the rich brown dye with a fine tooth comb, combing it evenly Into the grizzled locks of the old man. “Hair dye, sir,” be said. “Plain, unvarnished hair dye is the base of that absurd fallacy about people turning gray in a single night “If you Investigate those yarns you find that Invariably they concern persons In prison. Orsini, pining in jail, had his hair go back on him. Marie Antoinette, languishing In a cell, found the deep hne of her hair changing to an ugly gray. Raleigh, imprisoned in the tower, developed grayish streaks with incredible speed. “The secret of all that, my dear, Is this: “These prisoners in order to conceal their gray hair dyed it, using a poor sort of dye, one of those sorts that have to be applied every day or two. In prison, naturally, they could not get hold of this dye, and hence their locks whitened at a miraculous rate. When people said of them pityingly that their terror of sorrow had turned their hair gray in a single night they acquiesced themselves in the deception, for is it not embarrassing—l leave It to you, sir, is It not embarrassing—to explain to the world at large that one uses hair dye?”—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat.