Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-09-02
ALBINOS GALORE.
PLENTY OF PINK EYED, WHITE HAIRED
PEOPLE Ar CAPE COD.
For Many Generations tho Pittslcy Family
Has Retained This Physical Peculiarly
which First appeared In the Early
Half OF the Eighteenth Century.

Boston Letter to Philadelphia Times.
Since the appearance of albino girls in
side shows and dme museums the gem
eral public has INDUCED in considerable
speculation as to where the managers
of these freak aggregations procure their
| fri22lN- specimens. Although sell
dom met with at other places there is
at Cape Cod a settlement of these pink
eyed and whtc-haircd people For gem
cratinnS the pittslcN family. known IN
the section as the ''white-haired Pitts
| leys.' have been albnO. They have in
termarried, and although clannish in
the extreme, years agD took into the
family fold a man named Reynolds, in
whose children the popularity cropped
out and added the "whte-haired Rey-
nolds" to the little army OF Cape Gods
human Curiosities.
Until quite recently a dozen or fifteen
Pittsley albinos might have been found
within half as many miles of each other
and sometimes under the same roof. But
the families in which there are albinos
have scattered lately and spread over
the most lonely parts of the country
from Freetown to Wareham, at the en-
trance to Cape Cod.
The museum albino and the albino in
real life have little in common. The
albino at home is disappointing. His
or her hair isn't crimped to the museum
limit. 1t doesn't stand out a la Circas-
sian. In the natural Pittsley state the
albino hair is dingy, because they don't
nrobabIv ,votsidn,t sdort tho modem
methods of washing hair.
The eyes of the alhinos in this region
prove their albinism beyond question.
They are usually Described as mink like
rabbits eyes They are extrennely
weak and almost closed so that If ia
difficult to get n square look into the
eye itself. when the eye is opened the
lid is lifted only for a second, and it
pupil is dark red and surrounded with
a iighfcr rod ring while the hail Of the
eve is male mink and surrounded with the
ninl<ish rim of the eyalid The effect
would bn tborourblv mink If the eve re
mained nj rest n is almost imnossihle
70 obtoi,, a diroot ln,,l, imto Tho nye no
cn,sa FROM The ave of the healthy AL
IiTr, sod ii,rbt ,,ae,cs 10 dor+ Will tba
ntI,ii o,ii,ore ara dilatee and seems 70
move ,inneeein~iv
n is oyer a ncn+urv ord , ba1f sinca
Tho a,nooro,,co nf 10 tirs+ aihino was
recorded In the pittsIev trihs since that
time nrobabiy mors than 100 have been
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Gsty albiros 1,,era ii,,ing ritbin a radius
or twnntv-fiva mics Barntm might
baro boI.o baId on aihiro con"rnss If he
hod bsa,r nLia 70 araocn al of these
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,ii,,. ,i. ,,t tho ,o,,d pits
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III tba fan,ilies Of tbn Erancb neu-
saatta,ei tto,r, ~, aI,nst ewerv
sl ,ttI,, ~ F,,,, tb ,,n,,tb nf th, De-
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,rhigI, y."s nea, tho colon, Of Iolt,montb
~ rct heon ala to serJ re f,,I, n,,ota
Of ,oan into The army So in r.. dis
trih,Ition Of the Eranch from Arcadia
Grtas, ,,a,, Win eor,n women and chiI
Grc1, we've ief+ in E,rnetown Tho hitter
'et Gf a1i vas tha sanaration and snIit-
TIM nm OF f1niIias Tho neonIa We're
AHA ,,i+, doiactinr and tbn n6orest ~
tbn,, oirna,,e1tI,, b,iiIt some ruIa IndTa
IN rba forests and took no care how
tIo,, Ii,.a5 Tonn smoke tboir Ion1nare
;rbGy, v,er@ stranrars in hahits and man.
,nrs Mn bad bGen senaratad from
u,i,,ss and da,,rbters and wives 1eft
rritbHut tbair hmshands
Trst what The name Of tha Trencb