Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-12-11

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United States census statistics
Hhich viii soon be published, show
hat There afo shout 1000, 600 red.
leaded people Id the United States.
Thin vast army does not include In
tt ranks people whose hair ID OF 4
rddlsh tint, or ever auburn or gol.
ien-hatred people. 1t simply includes
hose who have the undeniable right
70 get mad when some unsympathetic
10Y taunts them In public on the
1rracotta tint OF their top-knots.
These same statistics show that
Philadelphia ID entitled to about co..
700 red headed persons. These
figures might at first sight seem ex-
lggeFated, but q little work in the
Inc of personal Investigation has
shown conclusiyely that the figures
are about right. A whole volume Of
indoubted size could be written about
he red heads OF this city, says the
2hiladelphia Record. The most OF
hem a be found about Kensing.
on. This can be accounted for by
he fact that Kensingt0n is largely
>eopled with Irish or descendants OF
l.ish. A large number can be found
nSouthwark for the very same rea-
on.
When It comes down to capillary
ireaks some very notable ones car be
ound in the ranks OF Philadelphia
e d-heads. For instance, there are
wo red-headed negroes. One Is a
trapping big male and the other Is q
,lender female. The female often
promcnades Chestnut street, but the
male rarely gets farther north than
lombard street. In KensingtOn a
worthy Hebrew couple have fiery red
aair, and SO have four OF their chill
iren. A ~pine-strect merchant, whose
hair was fiery red a few years ago,
a0w wears a variegated crop. 1t
looks as ii some person had slapped
him ON the head here and there with
! white paint brush.
The weather Saturday afternoon
was 50 delightful that Chestnut
street was packed all the afternoon
with promenaders. During a walk
lp Chestnut street from Ninth to
Broad while the tide Of promenaders
was at its height fifty-eight red
headed persons were encountered.
While the clock was ticking of
twenty minutes last evening seventy
'ed-headed persons passed into the
Broad-strcet station. OF these a
arge majority were females. In
walking from the City Hall down
Market street to the Postofice seven
.een %red-headed persons were en-
,Ountercd.
In the p0stofice some OF the queer
st facts regarding red heads were
lnearthed. At one OF the windows
works a pretty girl with the reddest
kind Ut hair; n fact, the hair is so
red that the clerks in the ONCE call
the young lady e"Pinkey." When
questioned yesterday "Pinkey"
aughed gayly, shook her Titan locks,
and merrily carolcd a couplet from an
BID Celtic song:
Hei0h for the apple and BIO for the pair,
Give me the girl with the red, red hair.
II have noticed" said 'tPinkey,"
s'that about two-thirds of the people
who come to the foreign delivery
window have the finest kind of red
nair. / don't mean that the hair it.
self is fine, but / mean that the color
Is out Of sight. They are the most
polite people in the world to wait on,
but let me tell you that you must at
tend strictly to business when a red
head Is waiting, for their tempers are
as quick as powder. For some reason
or other very few red heads buy post
age stamps. l don't know why this
Is. l have noticed another funny
thing about red heads. OF course
you know that the paper collar Is al
most unknown now. But 1t is a fact
that every paper collar l have seen in
the last two years has been worn by a
red headed man."
A well-knOwn physician, who has
made human hair a study for years,
delivered IN entertaining lecture on
red hair recently.
1.-THE great Italian painter, Titan"
said he, "was so fond of red hair that
he rayed about it, and at one time is
said to have offered tosell his soul to
the devil provided his hair would turn
red. This passion for red hair has
ragged flercely since early times.
About every eight years red hair
comes in style and the bellies try to
color their hair in conformity to the
prevailing style. They often use
poison, and that's where we come in.
At one period in history, however,
red hair was the subject for univer-
sal scofing, and n old poet wrote OF
. girl who had Tilted him:
Malicious fame reports her head was red."
That she smoothedi 1t with q CONT Of le ad."
The reason why red hair is red is
because OF the pigment accumulated
in the cells OF the medium. In
other words, there are sachs at the
foot of each red hair, filed with three
or four distinct pigments, all OF a
reddish tint. / have taken certain
specimens Of every red human hair,
treated them with twenty times
their volume of water, and obtained
as a result a very marked pink solu-
ton. That gees to show that all the
hair is imprcgnatcd with the red
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