BALD HEADED EVIDENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18025, 25 February 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)

BALD HEADED EVIDENCE.

HAIR RESTORER DEFENDED. A baring of bald heads and boastings of incipient growths of hair was the manner in which evidence was presented before Magistrate Brough in a New York Court, by the firm of Jules Ferond, Inc., defendant in an action brought by the city ,on a charge'of'violation of the sanitaiy code. Attorney for the firm, which sells a hair restorer which is advertised to "grow hair on any .bald head withju a reasonable time," called eight'or ten witnesses, all bald or nearly bald men. All eagerly' defended the tonic they had purchased from' the concern. Ono of them, a nian of fifty, and'as bald as a billiard ball, told the Court-he had tried the tonio because he had "a wife who wanted him to have hair on the top of his head." Another witness, when asked to show his head to die Court, rubbed his hand across it and said he now could feel hair there for the first time in twenty years. "I have hopes that it is a good remedy,"' said he, "and I will, keep on using it," The concern was brought into Court on complaint of Walter 0. Ridley, inspector, in the Department of Health. Dr. S. Dana Hubbard, a skin expert, testified for the city that from his experience no remedy was known to the medical sciencewhich would. restore • hair to an entirely bald heai •