H. N. Gittins

“ I explained, "for any degree of baldness you provide remedies by the hundreds. You offer to invigorate the hair, to dress it, to bring it up in the way it should go, and to produce it in any quantity. ”

“ The light of battle came into the assistant's eye and he moved to the wash-basin.
"Yes," he said, picking up a bottle of oily mixture, "this preparation, for instance, is really to be recommended. The famous Criniline."
He held it aloft and the neighbouring assistant barely suppressed a cheer. "I've sold———"
"That's all very well," I objected, "but where do I come in?"
"Well, Sir"—he held out his scissors—"these surely are effective."
"Cutting only makes it grow more quickly. The beastly stuff's so thick," I complained, "I can't do anything with it. ”