The mirror., 1913-10-09
SENSATIONAL NEWS FROM THE ORIENT
By Marco Polk

By Marco Polo
l translate from ssLas Novedades''-
Spanish weekly published in New York
City:
News flashed from Tangiers brings the
information that in that white walled city
tarries wise old sage by the name of Alb
dull Haradraz, who has thrown the town
and its surrounding territory into fever of
excitement over what is said to be a sue
cessful cure for bald heads.
This wise oriental, so it is claimed, has
invented process, the secret of which he
jealously guards, whereby he claims to be
able to cause luxuriant growth of hair to
appear almost magically on the shiniest
pate, and eye witnesses of his remarkable
success are equally assertive as to the efica-
cy of his discovery. The fame of this
sage has already crossed into the centers of
Europe, via the straits of Gibraltar and
Spain, and thousands of inquiries are being
received by every mail at the different con-
sulates in Tangiers from anxious subjects
of the different nationalities they represent
as to the authenticity of these reports.
s'The officials referred to, in view of the
wide interest shown by their fellow coun-
trymen and their anxiety to stop the ava
lanche of questions with which they have
been overwhelmed, have taken pains to in
terview this man who appears to have SO
successfully upset the mental equilibrium
of half of Europe and, after insistent eff
forts, backed up with generous outlay of
'backheesh' (Arabian for tips) have gath
cred the following details as to the treat
ment which we are pleased to present to
our readers:
BY means of delicately constructed
silver tipped drills of minute species, very
small holes, imperceptible to the naked eye,
are drilled at frequent intervals on the bare
and shiny expanse of the patients head. So
we'll attuned are these microscopic drills
constructed that they enter no further than
the millionth part of a millemetre into the
epidermis; the result obtained being slight
abrasion of the capillary nerve without pro-
ducing an excessive hemorrhage. Then,
the doctor who maintains stock of fresh
human hair on hand, introduces into each
of these holes single thread of hair, the
color of which, of course, is left to the
taste of the patient, the shades and variety
of +hoco ho;no unlimifad
"'After every drilled cavity has received
its respective hair the doctor completely
covers the space operated upon with a
thick, greasy, resinuous species of paste,
very much resembling cooking lard in its
consistency and the true ingredients of
which also compose the secret of the in
vention. This part of the treatment being
concluded, the patients head is sprinkled
with lacteal appearing fluid, and thereaf-
ter the patient is instructed to keep up this
sprinkling process until the first appear
ance of fuzzy growth which, it is claimed,
soon follows the treatment
'sIt is plain to the reader that the treat
ment in question may be likened to the
planting and harvesting of crop; the
drilling process corresponding to the
blowing; the insertion of the hairs to the
seeding; the application of the paste to the
manuring, and the sprinkling of the mys-
terious fluid to the irrigating. Moreover
it can be seen in this instance that nature is
paralleed, and, as it is an axiom that the
parts of the human beings are productive
and fruitful, it may be after all that the
learned Oriental's discovery will mark the
achievement of priceless boon to those
unfortunates who have been heretofore de-
prived of part of the common heritage
All of which is respectfully submitted to
my friend Heliograms for his information
and profit.