REAL RED HAIR.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 57, 28 February 1913, Page 8

REAL RED HAIR.

A DISAPPEARING RACE

A woman with the real red hair—huir that brought to my mind a suggestion of, the "Titian beauty—passed me in the West End yesterday (writes "Artist" to the London 'Daily Mail' . Red hair is fast .disappearing, and there are comparatively Swv persons to-day who possess it. • With its disappearance the prejudice agpiinsfc it has died out, and those of us who know, its beauties experience a thrill of delight when we see a womati, or even a man, who possesses hair of the real red tint. a

Red-haired people need never-«f4el any misgivings. On the contrary, they'ought to be proud wheri*-they-re-member that Sylla, Cato, Columbus, Sir Philip Sidney, Bayard, .Wolfe, Oliver Cromwell, and Ben Jonson all possessed red hair, while even Shakespeare inclined that way. Swinburne was very proud of his red hair. Again, it is fairly well agreed* among those who have studied the question that red-haired persons are energetic and more fearless than others. A fact not sufficiently noted about the present scarcity of red-haired people is that we as Anglo-Saxons ought not to be darkhaired. We ought to possess if not bright red hair, at any rate very fair hair.

According to . a census made some time ago by Mr John Gray., a member of the Anthropological Institute, Dorsetshire contains more red-haired'per-sons than any other county. But even in Dorsetshire the number of men and women with red hair is decreasing.' A hairdresser in the West End, discussing the subject raised iby "Artist," said: "Red hair is certainily quite uncommon nowadays. There are light hair, but a woman with the proper shade of red hair (her own) is very rare. Most people to-day have darkish hair."