THE ESSENCE OF “TIME.”

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4801, 23 June 1939, Page 3

THE ESSENCE OF “TIME.”

GREY HAIR COMPENSATIONS,

It is quite certain that fewer women than men go grey, says a correspondent to the Sydney Morning; Herald. That the expression “go grey” signifies the hair without further explanation is evidence that the affliction—if it may be so called —is so common that it is taken as a matter of course.

It is on record that at a private party in London, a lady—who, though in the autumn of life, had not lost all dreams of its spring—said to Douglas Jerrold: “I cannot imagine what has made my hair go grey. It is so rare with our sex; I sometimes fancy it must be the essence of rosemary v/hich my maid uses on it when she brushes it.” “I am rather afraid, madam,” replied the dramatist, “that it is the essence of thyme.”

But if women sometimes “go grey” they are better off than the “lords of creation,” so many of whom go bald. But, as someone wittily observed: “An empty barn needs no thatch.”