Screenland (Nov 1925–Apr 1926)

SCREENLAND 89 How a Strange Accident Saved Me From Baldness Sixty days ago it made me boiling mad. Today I look back and laugh at the incident for it brought me a marvelous new growth of hair I'M willing to bet that I've wasted more money trying to end my baldness than any other man in the world. So naturally I laughed at any ad that sounded like a baldness remedy. And the oftener I laughed, the more bald I became. When my wife began to look sorrowfully at my thinning hair I smiled regretfully. When my friends began to call me "baldy" I felt somewhat annoyed. But when my private secretary began to look strangely at my glistening scalp and snicker — well it made me mad. But the worst was yet to come. About sixty days ago I saw a tooth paste ad' vertisement that offered to send a free booklet. It sounded interesting so I clipped the coupon and gave it to my secretary to fill in and mail. • Well, a few days later, to my utter surprise, I found on my desk — not a booklet on toothpaste — but a booklet and a letter telling how to end baldness in 30 days! I glanced from the booklet to my secretary. I felt my blood boiling. "Miss Harris," I said to her, "I can't say that I appreciate your sense of humor. Just what is your idea? Is it. . . ." She paled. "Why, Mr. Burns — what's wrong — what have I done?" "Done?" I shouted, "aren't you content with laughing at my bald head — must you make matters worse by sending me this hint. If it pains you to look at my head you are always at liberty to resign!" Tears came into her eyes. And between sobs she explained why it wasn't really her fault. She said that the coupon which I asked her to mail had another coupon printed on the back — and the other coupon offered to send a free book about baldness. Well, she simply used her own judgment! "Hm," was all I could say. And during the entire day not a word passed between us. But that night on my way home I read the book about baldness. And I have to admit that a more interesting, more helpful, more honest book I've never read in my life It described an entirely new method of making hair grow — a method perfected by Alois Merke, founder of the Merke Institute, Fifth Avenue, New York. It is the only treatment I had ever heard of that actually reached right down to the hair roots and awakened them to new, vigorous activity As I read on 1 felt myself weakening in my Read This ! resolve not to try another hair treatment. And then when I read that Merke actually guaranteed a new growth of hair in 30 days or no cost to me — well, I completely weakened and sent for the treatment. . The first two or three times I used the treatment I began to notice that my hair didn't fall out as much as it used to. But, a week or so later when I looked in the mirror I saw something that almost bowled me over! For there, just breaking through, was a fine downy fuzz all over my head. Every night I spent 1? minutes taking the treatment at home. And every day this young hair kept getting stronger and thicker. At the end of a month you could hardly see a bald spot on my head. And at the end of sixty days — well, my worries about baldness were ended. For I had regained an entirely new head of healthy hair. Can you blame me for laughing now at the strange incident of 60 days ago? "Results are wonderful. My hair has stopped falling out and I can see lots of new hair coming in. I preach your system«to everyone" — F. D. R., Washington, D. C. "My hair was coming out at an alarming rate, but after four or five treatments I noticed this was checked. My hair is coming in thicker and looks and feels full of life and vigor." — W. O, Great Neck, N. Y. "I have used your system for eight weeks and although the top of my head has been entirely bald for six years, the results up to the present are gratifying. In fact, the entire bald spoL is covered with a fine growth of hair." — W. B., Kcnmore, Ohio. (Original ol above letters on file a! the Institutes.) Here's the Secret According to Alois Merke, in most cases of baldness the hair roots are not dead, but merely dormant ■ — temporarily asleep. Now to make a sickly tree grow you would not think of rubbing "growing fluid" on the leaves. Yet that is just what I had been doing, when I used to douse my head with tonics, salves, etc. To 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 the hair roots md nourishing them. 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