Film Fun (June 1926)

I'd Be Bald Today -but a sleepy telephone girl saved me Sixty Days Ago I Hardly Had A Handful of Hair Left. Then One Night I Tried To Get A Number From A Drowsy Telephone Operator. I Didn't Get the Number — But I Did Get A Wonderful New Growth of Hair in the Most Unexpected Way! '"T*HERE 'S no use trying to prevent it," 1 I said to Mary. "There's another combful of hair gone, and — " "Oh, stop talking about your hair," Mary replied. "You're worrying yourself into baldness, that's what you're doing." "Worry or no worry," I exploded, "it's getting so now that I'm actually ashamed to take my hat off." "Oh, forget about it, and get Alice on the 'phone. She wants us to dinner tomorrow. Tell her we'll be there." "Very well," I said, and picked up the receiver. "Hello," came from the other end of the wire in a man's voice. And just as I was about to answer "Hello," another gruff voice replied : "Howdy, Jack." Some sleepy operator had put me on a busy wire! I started to hang up when Jack, whoever he was, called out cheerfully: "How's your old bald head?" I could have sworn he meant me. But he didn't. For the other replied, just as cheerfully, "It isn't!" This was good and I decided to listen. "What do you mean — it isn't?" "It isn't bald." "What's happened — have you bought a wig?" "No, I haven't bought a wig. But I've got a brand new growth of hair — and it's real, honest-to-goodness hair, too. I'll tell you about it." And while I eavesdropped he explained how he had been using a wonderful new treatment perfected by Alois Merke — founder of the famous Merke, Institute, Fifth Avenue, New York. This treatment, he said, got right down to the cause of baldness — the dormant roots themselves. In 30 days he could see new hair coming in, and in 60 days every bald spot, was being rapidly covered. in any home That was enough for me. I remembered ™£tit —Vfalo}*0} having seen an ad on the Merke Treat onlyafewccntfaday. ment in one of the magazines. So I im The thing I like mediately dug it up and read it carefully, -^th^e^^M6 To my surprise I learned that Merke not admits that^his only agreed to grow new hair — but he treatment will not I positively guaranteed to bring results in *£°™ hai^D every ™ 30 days or no cost! I told Mary about it s^'e cases 'of baki H and together we decided to send for the ness that nothing in ^^ treatment. the world can help. ,._,., aut so many others The first two Or three times I lised the have regained hair this treatment I began to notice that my hair new way th*t he absolutely didn't fall out as much as it used to. But a IS""® n°ewPr£owth little later I got the biggest surprise of my in 30 days — or the trial life. For I looked in the mirror — and there, jf. free, And you are the sole judge of whether sprouting right up from my once scantily hls method works or not covered scalp, was a fine, downy growth of Coupon Brings You Full Details healthy young hair. r ° Each pvpnin? T Hevotpd 1 S mirmtf"; to trip T1Jis stoVr is t/P'cal °f the results that great liacn evening 1 aevotea 13 minutes TO tne nurnbers of people are securing with the Merke treatment at home. And day after day I Treatment. could see this new hair getting thicker and "The New Way to Make Hair Grow," is the title thicker. In a month's time there was the °f a vitally interesting 34-page book describing the most surprising difference. And at the end S^mai! tte^fbeloT "ltW,y ^ * ^ °1 S1?ly ^ ayS_WTeL1* } n° • !°^ger W^"ie1 This Uttle b°°k "Plains all about the treatment, about baldness. 1 had regained a wonderful shows what it has already done for countless others, new, healthy growth of hair. That sleepy and 'n addition contains much valuable information telephone girl will never know what a won |^& ^„1^Sfc£d SSfe^SSSStoS dertul tning She did tor me. the treatment, you can do so without risking a penny. __ . . So mail the coupon now. Address Allied Merke Here S the Secret Institute, Inc.. Dept. 576, 512 Fifth Ave., N. Y. c. Accordingto Alois Merke, in most cases of baldness »n j <i 1 , the hair roots are not dead, but merely dormant— iV . £2? « £?M.tUAte' „ ,, . „-• temporarily asleep. Now to make a sickly tree gr^w *£*■' 576, S12 F,fth Ave-' New York C,ty you would not think of rubbing growing fluid on the Please send me — without cost or obligation^a leaves. Yet that is just what I had been doing when copy °f your book, "The New Way to Make Hair I used to douse my head with tonics, salves, etc. To Grow, describing the Merke System, make a tree grow you must nourish the roots. And it's exactly the same with the hair. This new treatment which Merke perfected after ' 17 years' experience in treating baldness, is the first and only practical method of getting right down to Address the hair roots and nourishing them. , At the Merke Institute many have paid as high as $500 for the same results that may now be secured City State PageS