A NOVEL DEVICE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1561, 29 March 1887, Page 3

A NOVEL DEVICE.

A novel method of advertising has been reported to by the Seven ‘’ufchorUnd Sister*, whom shop is loori on Fourteenth street, near Broadway in New York. They are all tall, comely w >men, with a superabundance of soft brown hair reaching to their feet. In their ehow window—which rejoices in an immense plate-glass front, raised about three feet from the side walk—they stand and comb their wonderful tresses from early morn till ten o’clock at night. This commenced long before the holidays, and, as may be surmised, the tonics and invigoratora which have produced this wonderful growth of “ woman’s crowning glory ” are selling like hot cakes. Extra clerk* are employed daily to supply the impatient crowd of customers with wh . m nature has not been so lavish. Spectators agree unanimously that there must bo some hing beyond the ordinary in this tonic to produce such a marvellous growth of hair on each of the seven heads. Crowd* of admirers, of both sexes, often blocked the side walk in front of this shop, to the detriment of more modest shopkeepers on either side. Forbearance at length ceased to be a virtue, and the strong arm of the law was invoked by the indignant neighbors to •top this public hair-combing. They averred that “ it was impossible for shoppers in that vicinity to go anywhere else. Caught in the crowd, they were drawn into this maelstrom, and came out with empty purses. Ladies saw nothing, talked of nothing, thought of nothing, aud probably bougnt nothing but the wonderful ‘hair grower,’ which produced hr.ir 7 feet long and in profusion. Even customers that had dealt with them for years, getting caught in the crowd in front of the Sutherlands’ wind jw, became eo interested that they forgot ail about other shopping, and hastened home, hugging a bottle of the ‘hair grower’ to their hearts. It had only cost them one dollar, whereas the false hair they were obliged to wear to cover up the baldness of their heads ooet ten times that amount.” And so it was with all. The hair-combing was complained of as a nuisance, and the ladies were requested to stop it at once, o' abide the consequence*. W >uld they do it ? “No I ” said the seven sisters firmly anc distinctly, "our magnificent tresses, which have been the admisalion of kings in their palaces, and the envy of womankind the world over, we will comb when and where we phase. Is not America a free country ?” In spite of the efforts of their > xasperated neighbors to stop them, they still comb their wavy hair in the window, and the hair-tonio businens booms to the detriment of all else in that vicinity.