erewith moisten the roots of the hair in Combing it, and it
will grow long and thick and curled in a very short time."

"Take three spoonfuls of Honey and a good handful of Vine Twigs
that twist like Wire, and beat them wel, and strain their Juyce
into the Honey and anoynt the Bald Places therewith."

Here is what Captain Sam Ingersoll of Salem used, or at any rate had the
formula of, in 1685:

"A Metson to make a mans heare groe when he is bald. Take sume fier
flies & sum Redd wormes & black snayls and sum hume bees and dri
them and pound them & mixt them in milk or water."

These washes were not so expensive as Hirsutus or Tricopherous, but
quite as effective perhaps. There were hair-dyes, too, "to make hair
grow black though any other color," and the leaf that holds this
precious instruction is sadly worn and spotted with various tinted
inks, as though the words had been often read and copied:

"Take a little Aqua Fortis, put therein a groat or sixpence, as to
the quantity of the aforesaid water, then set both to dissolve
before the fire, then dip a small Spunge in the said water, and wet
your beard or hair therewith, but touch not the skin."

Hair-dressers also improved on nature. William Warden, a wig maker in
King Street, Boston, respectfully informed the ladies of that town that
he would "colour the hair on the head from a Red or any other
Disagreable Colour to a Dark Brown or Black."

It did not matter long to our forefathers whether these hair-dyes dyed,
or hair-restorers restored, for a fashion hated by some of the early
Puritans as a choice device of Satan--the fashion of wig-wearing--was to
revolutionize the matter of masculine hair. The question of wigs was a
difficult one to settle, since the ministers themselves could not agree.
John Wilson and Cotton Mather wore them, but Rev. Mr. Noyes launched
denunciations at them from the pulpit and the Apostle Eliot delivered
many a blast against "prolix locks with boiling zeal," and he
stigmatized them as a "luxurious feminine protexity," but yielded sadly
later in life to the fact that the "lust for wigs is become
insuperable." The legislature of Massachusetts also denounced periwigs
in 1675, but all in vain.

They were termed by one author "artificial deformed Maypowles fit to
furnish her that in a Stage play should represent some Hagge of Hell,"
and other choice epithets were applied. To learn how th