"Polly! is this the right way?" Miss Mullaly was doing her best, but not well enough to satisfy the instructor.
"The middle of your hand must come up high on your cheek," explained Polly. "Yes, that's it! And twenty-five times you must open and shut your mouth."
"Polly," broke in Miss Sterling, "when you can, I wish you'd tell
Mrs. Prindle how to make her hair grow."
"Yes," added Mrs. Prindle, "she says you know a way of massaging the scalp, and my hair is so thin!"
"You'll have to take it down, I guess—so you can get at it all over," said Polly.
"Do you know it will really help it?"
"Grandaunt Susie said her hair was so thin you could see through it, and when she was at our house it was as thick as—as thick as mine."
"Oh, I'm going to try that—my hair's all coming out!" Miss Lily drew her pins from the thin coil.
Mrs. Grace and Mrs. Adlerfeld made their heads ready for manipulation.
"You just put your hands this way, right up under your hair,"—Polly spread out her fingers,—"and clutch at the scalp hard, as if you were going to pull it off. Go all over the head, again and again for five minutes—two or three times a day. Aunt Susie says it will make the hair grow like fun."