Show REDHEADS RED HEADS ARE RISKY incurance men baij to boycott copla with scarlet topknots Top knots E 1 I should like to insure my life but I 1 would be considered a bad risk I 1 doubt if any of atto first class companies would accept me these says the philadelphia record were the words of a big freckle faced red haired individual whose usually merry countenance and abundant avoirdupois made him the very picture of health 1 what in the world should make you a bad risk chorused the poap p of bystanders i the first speaker blushed till his cheeks as fiery a red as his matted locks and then answered softly my scarlet topknot is my bane it is quite bad enough to invite the sobriquets brick top pinky and the like but when the insurance companies take a hand in the persecution it is enough to make a strong man weep the aggrieved individual resembled acon sump tive as little as possible but his suppositious posit ious tendency to pulmonary affections was the only ground for tho insurance mens boycott the medical examiner of a leading life insurance company who was questioned as to the alleged disparagement of red heads said it was largely imaginary and exaggerated it is a fact however ho continued that redheaded red headed persons have generally very thin and are as a rule of a delicate constitution A pale thin face and a cowering consumptive form are often allied to a reddish complexion light hair and especially red hair often seems to betoken scrofulous disorders and its presence may prejudice superficial examiners against the subject it is a fact that redheaded red headed persons who show not the smallest trace of pulmonary trouble will sometimes develio in an incredible clr |