Punch: Punch (75.1878)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[October 26, 1878

CHECK ! "

But how long will the Game last ?

CRIMSON SCALPS!

Don't be afraid—it is not a Cheyenne tale of horror that Punch
is about to write. It is no new thing- to have a lady's head running
on caps and bonnets, feathers, flowers, and fal-lals. But it is a new
thing to hear of a lady's caps and bonnets, flowers, feathers, and
fal-lals running on her head, with the ugly result of " covering
the scalp with bright erimson or magenta blotches."

Such, it seems, has been the disagreeable consequence of wearing
caps and bonnets decorated with the artificial grasses dyed black and
bronze, now so fashionable. " Some of the most brilliant aniline
colours," we are told by Mr. Bernard Dyer (appropriate name !),
Member of the Society of Public Analysts (in a letter to the Times
of Friday, Oct. 18th), " may be obtained by merely rubbing some of
these sombre-looking dyed grasses on a slightly moistened surface ;
and the stains of the dye are difficult to remove from the skin, or
elsewhere."

" Serves anybody right," some cynic may say, " who has the bad
taste to wear grasses dyed black and bronze." The crimson colour,
Punch may add, was communicated to the finger-tips and nails of
this luckless lady, who, in the night, had scratched her irritated
scalp. No wonder her head and hands blushed for her !

All the same, Punch may save some of his fair and foolish corre-
spondents from a disagreeable experience by giving wider publicity
to this new danger hanging over their heads, if they insist on trying
"the hazard of the dye"—unless, indeed, crimson scalp-locks
become the fashion, when, no doubt, they will be voted awfully
becoming.

Curious Optical Phenomenon.

{See the Home Secretary's Southport Oration.')

The Look of Things in General—By Direct Light, black as

thunder ; by Cross Light, couleur de rose.