Show ELACK CLACK AND RED HAIR ARE AKIN idea to the contrary long held Is wrong I 1 the color of the hair says the grand magazine Is usually transmitted from parents to child this Is especially true when both parents have the same complexion instances however are not uncommon where children have hair black as ebony while the hilr hair of both parents is a burning red instead of disproving the theory that a child takes after its parents so far as the color of the hair is concerned this fact it has now been ascertained Is all in favor of the doctrine red hair in tact fact is by its structure and coni composition much nearer to black hair than to blond very often it if the hair of a very dark complexioned person be examined attentively a few quite red hairs will be detected in the mass ass on off the other hand it would be time tim e wasted waste d to seek for black hair in the locks of a fair person similarly it is not infrequent to notice children whose I 1 hair red at birth becomes as they grow older quite dark when too after some serious illness the production 0 of the coloring pigment of odthe the hair falls off black hair becomes not blond but red fair hair which to a casual eye appears to have much more affinity to red chair than to black is on the contrary quite distinct |