A novel exhibit at, the recent Industries Fair, held London, was a comb that "rubs each hair separately, and on opposite sides." The bald. may. now. take fresh hope—that denudation has reached th or "egg" stage. Breathe there a rman who loses mo: of his hair who does not, on vi the infant fur that comes to protect hig scalp, con-Bratulate himself in the belief that this is a fresh crop and that in a twelvemonth his head will again be profusely covered? Thereafter, he resorts to all manner of weird pros cesses for the encouragement of the "forest primeval," and leaves off only when he has squandered most of his substance to no effect. Hitherto, the difficulty has been the Jack of a means for massaging the young, lush growth, To attack it forcibly with a rough towel has been to crush it out of all recogni tion if not actually to destroy it. Now that it is possible to rub each hair separately and on opposite sides, the bald will doubtless take heart anew. The semi-bald, too, they who spend so much time of a morning in spreading from five to ten hairs across the desert in the delusion that they are creating a pompadour resembling Paderewsky's, Wwill be able to plot out many attractive designs with the aid of Baldness is ascribed pedes of fatigue of the hair, a fatigue that is understood for the first-time. Up till now, this was taken to mean that the hair was tired of growing, and quit. Now we know that the hairs grew weary of being rubbed on one si only, a truly enervating experience. Husbands whose hair is constantly rumpled by their wives in. one direction will doubtless find relict in the new invention. By the w: how many sides has a hair? there any connection between this problem and the embarrassment of the waiter of whom the customer ordered: two fried eggs, the one to be fried on one side, and the other on the other?
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