Show BLACK AND RED HAIR ARE akan idad to the contrary long held Is wrong the color ot the hair says the grand magazine la usually transmit ted 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 hair of both parents Is a burning red ansted ot 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 is by its structure and composition much nearer to black hair than to blond very often if the hair of a very dark complexioned person be exam ined attentively a few quite red hairs will be detected in the mass on the other hand it would be time wasted to seek for black hair in the locks of a fair person similarly it Is not in frequent to notice children whose hair red at birth becomes as they grow older quite dark when too after some serious illness the prodoc alon of the coloring pigment of 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 hair than to black Is on the contrary quite dis |