WHERE RED HAIR IS FOUND.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 133, 28 February 1908, Page 3

WHERE RED HAIR IS FOUND.

,i ■ Red."'fiafc:is;'found.-In*tlistinct" exccss north . of- tho, Graiiipisns,'arid ispii'cially in .the north'-' east" of'Sqptland;;;' . Mr'. . Tocher,- Peterhead, • who." Has'fead<i tjio;:qii.esti6n.. of pigmentation a special' study, ;antl .has "joist been helped to conclude a< colour/, surydy'of .tho school,,childien—oyer..' ;' announced. this,.as orio of his' resu'l is; in l 'a lecture' to' tho' Educational 'Instituted at' Dumfries; recently,-• '• Bays^.a- ;, T6nd6V' : -pap6r'i:' : .'ln : most -European 1 countries';'.,He'.'said, ; th'crd;.'is':' a\.distiuct';predominahce'pf.qho typejover- the other's. ;Ih North'' Germany-ami Sweden it is . the; blonde ; typo; in"®aly.'-tho'brunette:'-No; such., pre-. dominanco is found in' Scotland. ,;'"D.ark hair and fair' are , Jequal.. proportions. . ; Scotta'shf-child-; is.-';brov/n,^and\ut".ihas.-to,,;^ 'far brown- is 'really ■ a. blend of fair and. darkl ■ If l it' is TSd,vth'6're:.isi;€yi.deiico; .of, -the -fqrma.tidnyof. a: new;;tyiio yh , portion throughout} tho .country is adittl(yi'oyer.'s i i'i-per.-/|cent.-7high compared : with /the/Continent. .A .One.,, cannot /overlook .tho ircfefenc>';bfr;-Taoitusvtof' ; the Ted-haired; Caledonians j;.. Some-.curious Tacts brought to; light;suggpat":_that;red'h'ai'r .is not entirely ,or ; .strictly;;?a.rrraoial : '^trai.t.i ; ,i,'.lt" may have some: v,,if..not'!.. .pathplpgicial conUMtion.';;- Mri .Tpcber^hasifouhd.a'distinct differencpj;Bet'w'een-',th6. colour. childrenfiin-.i.dpnsely /populated partis and in rural; ahdsless;, populated; districts. I.' - Emigra■tion ;hds/.alsp/iprpduced! an. appareni'.tOndpncy physical ; ;defects. V ! In'the.;main^the,dilfere)ic : e'. between the "distribution "of."colour Jn .'.Glasgow and t the" general population lis. due .'to'cliildren of 'Irish.a'ndjfpmgnfnatiohalitK' . -

INFLUENCEIOF' LITTLE T

•••;In the. course . of, :a r littlo-honiily on tho '.wide..-mfluehcp : ':of.'am^i^]biij^s,tho ; "Ladies' Homo/ Journal" 'tolls a',story of .special in- ; terest-to tho'; girli-.' ;,'A .little .thing may have,, a curiously/;rwuii r influence sqme•jfciinesV■;'■ ;."Iti mayr v ine mankind fcs: ! 'deepesbVa'u'df?jnost:' ; vital. ; relations;' but : it. may, -add; a -little, .to .the'face-of. things,rjatilitarian.;things": ana, that; : is- worth i;while:/\fiAsV' ,-an 'Jillustrat-iori;' here'is/a-'iSoihowhat'ipersonal. yoars,Ja|6;'the - typr-writt'en-correspondence of-' ; this office-'-j'resent-(sd-tip^-usual-inartistic..and. untidy: appe'dJanco'-in. common- -. with;, other, "* On'o'-'»day--."th.B- | ' : stenographer /.took'.,it: into hW ; the type-letteroiiii, her machino'arid'adopt'-a''new:letter. Bmallpr, ; "clearer.'_ahd' :, -!'m6re; -artistic- in.'its. appearafice. ><-iWith 'the. adoptionof tho new letter 1 she coupled' tho.'idea.';of' leaving wider . margins" on tho . letter-paper. . •! The general appearance •; ,-.of :tho tolhco/chaniged-.'fromvtho; exoessively:,, ordinary . to,' tho unusually 1 ' iartistic. .An ■' ; ordinary, thing ". had been- changed: over night to a' thing. pleasant'^todpokra't.^^Busihess, houses, at once'nqtieed'the, change, -{asked; how,- it,was. effected;!;-and;-it'v.was:; notKlong'i.ib'eforo/ the corresponde'nce-'of.itllis.vofßce was',pointed to on v niodel of : what th'e'corres-' pondencebf/a ■business.-houseinaybo, brought up to. One morning • ther'o came an.-enquiry from .the. Whito vHouse,-; arid '.forthwith,-, the, cprrespdridence'of; the-President pfJthb "United States took oil; a,-new- appearance. This :-was, in turn;. .noticed vby./, three . foreign - Governments, .-,whp -.made enquiry, rand the .change crossed -.-tho •; ocean.'- it was.' .appar.entjj a very. little,. 1 tiling •pf --itself: ;.that- the/stenegrapher did: one day. te., changc ,thp type-. ; letteri k; her ]machine; : But. what-, she actually did; do. was "to,; charigo;the„ appearance .of 'half the; busirioss ..correspondence >of - the land, of the United,Stilths Government.and of -foreign, Govcrnm_ents,^asinwelliv'-.;,She':did ; ; . not,'sway sho \ did .not.-., rock* Governments; but sheldid-add'/beiiuty-.to.the faqe,of things: she showed /that; a; utilitarian thing ; cotild bo made'a. beautiful;.thing ,as;,,well.-;; She bi iu tified the:bnei thing-that she ,did.and sent out to tho .world :;, her'•letters. . And that was' worth doing.,( Yet, I fancy that: to< the mind of the average;: stenographer;, the'.exertion of: such anhirifluenco wpukl -bo,beyond bblief. •