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The hair-restorer was in fact a shade too powerful, and in applying it you might get more than you bargained for. The Huichol Indians admire the beautiful markings on the backs of serpents.
'Like the hair of a woman on a hair-restorer bottle, if it were red, remarked the girl in answer to the exclamation. 'No, mademoiselle, no, it is not red. Mon Dieu! it is not red. Holy Mary! it is the colour of the sun. Mon Dieu, what hair! As he untwined the masses, it fell over the long bib, over the high chair, down till it swept the floor, in one unbroken flood of light.
I remember his lordship using the expression on the occasion he was then a business gentleman and had not yet received his title when a patent hair-restorer which he chanced to be promoting failed to attract the public. He put it on the market under another name as a depilatory, and amassed a substantial fortune. I have generally found his lordship's aphorism based on sound foundations.
It would seem he had lately invented a hair-restorer, which he had persuaded a local chemist to take up and advertise.
I have it, and he sat down again, pouring seltzer water into a half empty glass. 'Have what? asked Logan. 'The Felt Want. But the accomplices? 'But the advertisements! suggested Logan. 'A few pounds will cover them. I can sell my books, Merton sighed. 'A lot of advertising your first editions will pay for. Why, even to launch a hair-restorer takes
'But that means thousands in advertisements, said Logan, 'even if we ran a hair-restorer. The ground bait is too expensive. I say, I once knew a fellow who ground-baited for salmon with potted shrimps. 'Make a paragraph on him then, said Merton. 'But results proved that there was no felt want of potted shrimps or not of a fly to follow.
Next day the neighbours compared notes and bottles, and found that the medicine for influenza, consumption, liver disease, indigestion and cold feet, the embrocation for rheumatism, sprains, corns, bruises and headaches, the cure for pigs, the wash for silvering spoons, and the hair-restorer were all the same mixture. Then a great popular demand for Dr.
I do not, indeed, propose that the author shall pocket the money, though I see no shame in the deed: everything is worth what it can fetch, and if an adventitious value comes to attach to a signature, the author were amply justified in pocketing this legitimate supplement to the scanty rewards of his travail of soul and body just as he were justified, should locks of his hair come into demand, in alternating the scissors and the hair-restorer.
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