Medicine: Hair Planter

A red-headed Manhattan dancing girl let an oldish man examine a bald spot on her scalp last week. The man, Christian Askhaven of Oslo, Norway, washed the spot, sterilized it, anesthetized it. At his hand was a tray containing 200 pairs of red hairs. Each pair he had painstakingly fastened at the butt ends with a pure gold clip so tiny that it could scarcely be seen by the naked eye. Mr. Askhaven (he is a onetime Norwegian farmer recently gone to Manhattan to demonstrate his hair-renovating system) speared a pair of false hairs...

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