THE SPRING LOCK

As named by an English author some time ago the unfulfilled obligations of medical science were two in number: to discover a remedy for cancer and to learn how to grow hair. While progress toward the first of these objectives has been slow, a beauty expert of New York has already achieved the second. The fruit of eighteen years study is a process revealed on Wednesday by which he can anchor any number of hairs to the scalp by means of tiny gold springs.

The discovery has shaken the dermato-logical world to its foundations, although anyone who doesn't keep right up on their dermatological world would never notice it. Perhaps the most tragic of its implications is the disappearance of the bald-headed row. Many a chorus girl's heart will be broken at the disappearance of the mirrors that served for so many years. But the discovery has other advantages than those of beauty. The gold springs not only enable the hair to stand on end, but also to quiver. The mind becomes the treasure house of the soul in a literal sense. A certain service is thereby done the novelist, for it is now plausible that the hero, losing his beloved to a millionaire rival, should tear out great handfuls of his hair--proof positive of his solvency.