The Hair Vs. Insanity

It was formerly supposéd that peopleof palé complexión, espeoially if the hair was a pronounced blondo, fine and thin, were specially liable to mental excitement and brain disorder. Statistics which have recently been compiled prove this to be another of the grave errors of the old-time "specialist." At the Kirkbridge, England, asvlum out of a total of 265 patients only one has red hair, and only three either light hair or fair complexion. In the New York, London and Paris hospital s for the insane the same proportlon holds good. Exaotly why dark-haired persons are more liable to mental diseases than those of other shades of color has not vet been