SPECIAL CONCESSIONS IN HAIR TREATMENT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1378, 2 March 1912, Page 11

SPECIAL CONCESSIONS IN HAIR TREATMENT.

Tho loss of hair is, as a rule, the consequence of debility in sonio form or another, but the causes are as various as the cases themselves. At this season tho hair usually falls in excessive quantities, and special earn should lie given to tho scalp. Mis. Rolios'on advises a short course of treatment in every rase, as the greatest benefit i? derived at this particular time. Special Courses (five treatments) for Falling Hair, etc._, including necessary preparations and Vibro Massage, may be had for one guinea during the autumn; and ladies aro taught the caro and treatment of their hair. Book appointments early, as "A hair _in the head is worth five in the brush." Tel. 1509. 256 Lambton Quay (opp. Economic)."

"MICHAEL FAIRLESS." Some light upon the personality of the author of "Tho Roadmender" is thrown by Mr. Arthur Maehen, who has met the literary executrix of tho lady signing herself "Michael' Hairless," "The Roadmender" is, on essay in spirituality, which profoundly, affected a multitude of readers, yet it was only vaguely known that Michael Fairless was a woman who died almost on tho morrow of the book's completion. A contributor to "T.IVs Weekly," summarising the information now given by Mr. Jlachen, says:—"We learn that Michael Fairless died at the age of 33, of 'a combination of painful internal disorders.' "The Roadmender' was actually written during her death agony, or, rather, what.would have been agony to most mortals, i'ur we are assured, and can readily believe, that Michael Fairless neither feared death nor anything else. She was staying with her friend, at tho time, and one day, when; the first 'serious symptoms of her illness had appeared, she said suddenly as she lay;on her couch, '1 am a roadmender.' And" she asked for a pencil and some paper. Her friend complied with hor request, and Michael Fairlcss began to write her masterpiece in such a way and under conditions that have not their parallel in the whole history of tho making of books." Tho actual words of Mr. Machen's informant are as follow:— "She could not use her right handthere was an abscess in the right lungshe was far too weak to sit up, so she wrote with her left hand, tho pad supported on her breast. In this way sho wrote the whole of 'The Roadmender' in niiio days, and throughout the whole timo she took no nourishment of any kind, either liquid or solid. All that sho could bear was a littlo iced water now and again.

"Sire lived for 12 days more—still without any nourishment. I should not have said titat she wrote tho whole book herself; when she came to the last chapter she had grown blind, and too weak to hold the pencil, so the last chapter, called 'The White Gate," was dictated to me as she lay dying and helpless, and sho was thinking of a white gate that she used to look nt through her window before her sight tailed her." Ky temperament, we are told, Michael Fairlcss was a mystic, and had what are called psychic gifts, but rather distrust-' cd such things herself. Tho writing of "The Roadmonder," under the circumstances related, certainly reads like an uncanny achievement.

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