The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-11

of the fingers man Is furry animal.
He is covered with a little short fuzz call
ed lanugo.
1t is a popular notion, sedulously foster
ed by the harbers who get an extra fee
for smuggling, that the hair is a tube and
that when it is cut off it bleeds and the
natural vitality of it dribbles out into the
atmosphere. / think people have often
been shown the hollowness of hairs when
they have looked at them through a mi
| croscope. You viii be pleased to hear that
the human hair is a solid bundle of cpl
thelial cells the inner ones being rather
more loosely packed like pith. Gray hairs
have air bubbles in their outer layers.
Blonde hair is the finest and most thickly
set Black hair is less so, and red hair
is the coarsest and most sparsely plant
ed The human hair is not perfect
cylinder and the fatter it is the more
natural curl it has and being affected by
dampness the more ii kinks UP. The hair
grows six or seven inches in a year but
! the reason why a woman's hair Is not nVe
feet longer to-day than it was ten years
ago is that each persons seems to have
definite normal length, beyond which the
hair refuses to grow.
Beard appears to grow a the same rate
and to follow the same rules of personal
conduct as the hair of the head. SO II
man began shaving when he was 10 ana
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more than little bit off the top. If he
could keep in position all he has thrown
| away, a head of hair 30 feet dong and
| beard q feet long, all in one bunch,
would enable him to travel with circus
summers and sit in a store window TO
advertise hair restorer in the winter. i
/ don't know but he could get into the
! United States Senate, although ! hear
that they don't run so much to whiskers
a. al a xKTlai Ia
! Finger nails and toe nails being merely
fattened growths of the same kind of
| cells that the hairs are made of increase
| in about the same way, though their rate
| OF progress has not been so carefully
studied. Some say that the finger nails
| grow at the rate of one-thirtieth of an
| inch week.
The smallest difference in temperature
| that can be perceived by the skin in
health is IL degrees. Some people would
! call it sultry IL they were exposed TO "a
! temperature of 80 degrees, but Drs. Blag-
| den and Banks report a case where 260
| degrees were endured for eight minutes.
1 Tilet mentions girl that stayed seven
minutes in an oven at 324.5 degrees; Sir
| +. Chantry tolerated $50 degrees in an
oven where molds were drying and Cha
| bert, the fire king, is said to have stood
as high q temperature as 600 degrees.
! The optimum, that is TO say, the most
| favorable surface temperature, is from
| 1928 degrees to 94.6 degrees Fair The
| clothed portions of the body are always
| between 1916 degrees and 94.5 degrees.
! Under highly unfavorable circumstances
the surface temperature never sinks be-
low 8S.9 degrees, and when the tempera-
] ture of the hands goes below II degrees
! Fair. il becomes painful.
The skin is thickest on the back and
thinnest on the eyelids. Most of us have
| the different layers pretty we'll connect
! ed together, but elastic-skinned men that
! have no such connection are not I'M
! heard of. One Spaniard is said to have
! been/abie to draw out his skin y 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 it.