The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-06
Surprising Number Of Terra Gotta
Topknots Discovered BY the
Census.
Two Red Headed Negroes are
Among tho Capillary Freaks
Of Philadelphia,
r~or.ixners with Glorious Titan Looks
Red Hcaded People are Pohte but
Their Yempers are Dynamic.

United states census sthtibtios, wnAoh
will soon be published. show that there
are about 100000 red-headed people in the
United States. This vast army does not in
olndo In its ranks persons whose hair Is OF
n reddish tint, or even auburn or golden
haired people. II simply includss those
who have tho undsniable right to get mad
whom some unsympathetic boy tannts them
in nublio on the terra-cotta tint OF their
~topknots. -
These same statistics show that Phila-
dolphia is entitled to about GO,0OO red-head-
cd persons. These figures might at hrst
SIGHT sesm exaggerated. but a little work
in tho line of personal investigation has
shown conolusivcly that the figures are
about right. A whole volume OF undoupt-
ed size could be written about the redheads
of this city. The most of them can %
found about K%ensington. This is accounted
for by the fact that KensinRton is largely
psoplsd with Irish or descendants OF irish.
A large number can be found in Southwark
for the very same reason.
When IL comes down to capillary freaks
some very notable ones can be found IN
the ranks OF Philadelphia redheads. For
instance, there ara two rsd-headed negroes.
One is II %strapping big male, and the otnes
is a slender female. The female often
p~romenades Chestnut street. but the male
rarely ever gets further north than LON
bard street. In kensington a worthy lie
brew couple have fiery red hair, and 30 have
four of their children. A Pine street mer-
chant, whose hair was fiery red a few years
ago, uov wears q variegated crop. 1t looks
as if some person had slapped him on the
head here and there with a white paint
brush.
Tbs weather Saturday afternoon was &c
delightful that Chestnut street was packed
all the afternoon with promenadors. Dur
ing q walk up Chestnut street from Ninth
to Broad while the tide of promenaders was
Mt its height ffty-eight red-headed persons
wave encountered. While the clock was
ticking OIL twenty minutes last evening
seventy red-headed persons passed into the
Broad street station. OF these n large ma
iority were females. In walking from the
city hall down Market street to tho post
office e.yenteep red-headed persons were
encountered.
In the postofice some of the queerest
kind of facts regarding redheads were
unearthed. Al one of the windows works
in fact, the hair is go red that the clerks in
When questioned yesterday "Pinkey'
laughed gayly. shook her Titan looks, anl
mcrrily caroled a couplet from an ole
Celtic n ".m
"Heirh for the apple and no for the pear,
Give me the girl with the red, red hair
1T have noticed,'' said Pinkey. 'tha
about two-thirds Of the people who come
TO the foreign delivery window after mai
have the finest kind of red hair. ! dom
mean that the hair itself is fine, but l meal
M H. I /. ~-A 80 cS~lt Thou r. fi
most polite people in the world to wait on
but Lot me tell you that you must attend
strictly to business whom a redheat
is waiting, for their tempers ar
m quick as powder. For som
reason or other very few redheads bu'
have noticed another funny thing abou
redhsads. OF course, you know that tn
paper collar is almost unknown now. Blu
II il a fact that every paper collar l hav'
seen in the past two years has been worn b
q red-headed man."
The proprietor Of an employment burea,
also contributed a few odd statistics
"About three-quarters of the persons VIII
come here seeking work have red hair.
began to notice this about three years agc
and I investigated and found that IN
bridled temper Is the reason so many red
headed people are continually out of
job" ,
A we'll known physician, who has mad
human hair a study for years, delivered al
entertaining lecture on red hair yesterday
1.-The great Italian painter Titan said hi
was SO fond of red hair that he rave
about it, and at one time is said to have o.
fered to sell his loul to the devil provided
his hair would turn red. This passion fo
red hair has ragged ~fiercely since early timel
About every eight years red hair comes !
style, and the bellies try to color their ha
in conformity to the prevailing style. The
often use poison and that's where we CON
in. At ono period in history, however, re
hair was the subject for universal %scofinI
and one old post wrote of a girl who ha
Tilted him:
Malicious fame reports her hair was red,
That she smoothed it with a comb OF cad"
1.-The reason why red hair is rcd is b.
cause of the pigment accumulated in til
cells of the medulla. In other words. thel
are sacs at the foot of each red hair file
with three or four distinct pigments, all
a reddish tint. have taken certain spec
mems of very red human hair, heated thel
with twenty times their volume OF watt
and obtained as a result a very marks
pink solution. Thai goes to show that a
the hair is impregnated with the red stuff.
ASTROLOGY FOR OCTOBER.