CHILD'S HAIR WARNS WHEN RAIN DUE

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5306, 20 January 1947, Page 2

CHILD'S HAIR WARNS WHEN RAIN DUE

"london. Ginger-haired Lionel Green, aged two, of Gravesend, Kent, is the famiIy's "weather boy," for, according to his mother, his hair changes colour when the weather is going to change. Lionel's hair is a rich reddy gold, but when rain threatens "it goes quite a dep red on top," says Lionel's mother. Explanation given the Daily Mirror by a leading authority in trichology — study of the hair — was: "When the boy senses wet weather approaching, the nervous tension and reaction of his skin affects thi colouring of his hair. 'It is a rare condition, but probably more likely after wartime stresses and strains." Mrs. Ivy Green, of Peppercroft ?-treet, Gravesend, said: "It is all most mysterious. My other fou.r children are blond. There's been nothing like this in the family before." Still, Mrs. Green and her neig'hbour, Mrs. Edith Ramsell, ilcnow by Lionel's hair whether to risk hanging out their washing. ' , Three months ago Mrs. Ramsell was putting her washing on the line when she s#w Lionel over the garden wall: "Wbat's happened to youp hair this morning?" she asked. It was deep red on top. "I suppose it's going to rain," joked Mrs. Green. And it did.