Fortune From Wigs

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)

Fortune From Wigs

Over £40,000, made out of the manufacture of legal wigs, was left by Mr Ernest Ravenscroft, London, who died recently. The business at the Chancery Lane shop of Messrs Ede and Ravenscroft, started in 1726, is, now being run by a senior partner, who has emerged from retirement at the age of eighty-three. It is said that the business was nearly ruined once—because the wigs would not wear out! One Australian judge had his for forty years and his son is still using it. In the old days the wigs were made of human hair. which was oiled '■!' 1 powdered. Nowadays they are made of horse hair, ami go not h ave I raws of

oil and powder on robes. The hair comes from China, Canada and Russia, but English hair, when obtainable, is the best. The firm finds that young men prefer their wigs not to look too new. So black horses’ hair is sometimes put into the wigs to give them a soiled appearance.

Aeroplane trips are the novel cure for whooping cough “discovered” by a German doctor; the young patients were then taken for cruises of an hour each at. a height, of 10,000 ft.