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Show The Number of Hairs. Data gathered In this relation sho that fair-haired persons possess, con tuonly, between 140,000 and ICG.OOJ hairs on the scalp, the number being about the same for man and woman. Dark-h'alretl persons have on an aver-; aver-; age, about 105,000, while red-haired persons are said to have only 301000 hairs. But the latter apparently possess pos-sess one great advantage In the fact-thai fact-thai they retain their hair better, seldom sel-dom becoming bald. Their hair is much coarser than that of dark or t'air-haired persons. |