The Sunday globe., 1901-05-26

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soap dish or the stationary washbowl,
wriggling with delight at your efforts
to pick it off with your wet fingers.
1t does not discourage a hair to be
plucked out by the roots, as ladies' who
have a tendency to grow mustaches
will bear THE GLOBE out 1t simply
gets angry and comes in again, coarseT
than ever. That is because what keeps
the hair going is something that can
not very well be got at from the sur
face of the skin. II is a little papilla
1.1S0 of an inch long, away down at
the bottom of the hair tube. Nothing
that can be dabbed on the skin can get
down there either to harm or help 1t.
The only way to remove such hair Is
to make up your mind to spend money
and to have an unpleasant time. Go
to a physician and let him kill the
growth of each hair with an electric
needle. 1t will be like tattooing in its
sensations. There have been some
ladies that have removed mustaches
from their lips-we mean their own
mustaches-by taking a needle and
heating 1t in the flame of a lamp and
thrusting 1t into each individual hair
gland and so killing the papill@. They
get it red not, you know, and they also
get tiny particles of lamp black on the
needle, and it leaves a delicate tattoo
ing effect that is very striking. We
don't know why 1t is that we want to
laugh about this, because you know 1t
is not a bit funny to the girl to have
her lip hurt so and then find out that
in taking away the mustache that she
might have shaved off every day she
has left an artificial mustache that
nothing can remove. 1t is really Sc
rious matter but we always want to
laugh just the same.
The skin, being a secretOry organ,
all the fluids that promote the pro-
cesses of life are within its province.
Most Of its secretion is an oily sub
stance that keeps the epithelium and
the hairs soft and pliable. The seba-
ceous glands always open into hair
tube With the exception of a few
spots like the palms of the hands, the
soles of the feet the eyelids and the
first joints of the fingers, man is d
furry animal He is covered with
little short fuzz called lanugo 1t is
called that because it is much more
elegant to use Latin words where Eng
lsh will do just as well.
Beard appears to grow at the same
ratio and to follow the same rules Of
personal conduct as the hair of the
head. SO If a man began shaving when
he was 16 and lives to be 70 years old
he will have cut more than little bit
off the top. If he could keep in posi-
ton all he has thrown away a head
of hair 35 feet long and beard q feet
long, all in one bunch, would enable
him to travel with a circus summers
and sit in a store window to advertise
a hair restorer in the winter.
The skin is the thickest on the back
and thinnest on the eyelids. Most OF
us have the different layers pretty well
connected together, but elastic skinned
men that have no such connection are
not unheard of. One Spaniard is said
/ to have been able to draw out his skin
/ 12 inches in any direction. This may
seem like stretching it little, but as
usual with all such yarns there is the
best medical authority for 1t.
It may be interesting to know that
one perspires more on the right side
Of the body than on the left, and that
the skin of the palm of the hand ex'
cretes four and a half times as much
proportionately to the surface as the
/ skin of the back. The pores in the
/ ridges of the palm number as many as
5000 to the square inch, They are
scarcest on the back, where they are
only 400 to the square inch. These
pores are not simple holes or perfora'
tions in the hide, as some imagine, but
are little pockets lined with the same
epithelium or pavement stuff that Gov
ers the external Of the body. They run
straight down into the deepest struc
ture of the skin, and there they kinR
up and coil around until they look like
a fishing line that has been thrown
down wet. Enclosed in this knot are
little veins that leak the perspiration
through the walls of the tube, and II
wells up to the surface of the skin. II
is estimated that the average-sized
man has 1000, 900 of these sweat glands
aggregating 2S miles of tubing. Think
of it! Twenty-eight miles IL all those
tiny tubes could be Strengthened out
and put end to end!
The skin has so many duties that IL
is perfectly amazing to think OF them
It is an organ of respiration, like the
lungs. Its products are exactly the
same, carbonic acid gas and water
The difference is in the proportion.
The skin throws off nearly twice as
much as the lungs, or in the proper
tion of nine to FIVE. This is what kills
off the savages so rapidly that have
had the gospel light. The missionaries
put clothes on them and that stiles
the breathing Of the skin, The lung
have two-thirds more work than they
are accustomed to do and break down
under the strain There are plenty OF
recorded cases where persons with pull
monary complaints have attained per
feet. rude health with one lung gone by
getting off to some wild region and
going about clad in the garment OF
space only.
And all this and much more infor
nation OF like character was absorbed
through our skin while patronizing the
drug stores of the city last summer la
search of 0intments, salves and nos.
trums to cure" the rash which dis
figured us, and which disappeared OF
itself when the cause was removed
and the cause, gentle reader, was
simply the--heatl When the mercury
climbed down to 76 instead of up to
100 degrees, we had varied assort.
ment of skin salves and ointments left
over, and II is to save you from doing
likewise the present summer that this
article is written.
Leave your skin alone; It knows its
own business best.
A Remarkable Woman.
The Marquise de Galliffet, who died
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