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Show 3j I Advantage of Red Hair. New York Press: Redheaded men -t B"awt""eu enjoy a decided advantage mT Ultlr reUow mo'tals with hair of ''er colors, In that they aro less sub- cl to baldness. Scientists have MT 1 ovcp 1,1,8 condition without faPl'u'y oxplauntion for It. Geu- ifct , 1,0ftkntf' tho "le"1"! t! I),,vU tendencies of tho Titian element I l Bmhm- ... aro not dlllerunt from thoo of other people, at nil events not itilllcli-iitly so to account for the more durable growth of hair. A physician with a bent for Inrcstl-gntlon Inrcstl-gntlon has. made a sudy of the suhj.ct and explains that the red-headed person per-son Inn din advantage beeiiuse red hnlrs are thicker than other kinds, nnd it takes fewer of them to cover a scalp. He fluds tlmt one red Imlr is ns thick as flvo blonde or throo brown hairs.-Thus hairs.-Thus a scalp Is woll covered with 80,'. 000 icd hairs, while It would uppca'r to be bald with tho same number of blonde hairs. Ills Invostlitatlon Miows that It takes 100,000 blonde, or 103.000 brown hairs to cover an average head adequately, |