Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1904-05-12

on the beauty Of IouI upper eye Of ia
CURED after your GiII~! or. th"-r.a
YOU may moi know it, you n9tJ.c1
these Among the disuscd feat@:cz ut
your body.
IN The center of your brain, lorll"@
vaguely sl,yw.fr'l, lie the atrophIoJ TO
mains Of a third eye. which, il il sup
posed, WAS actually one Of mans use.
ful features at Sollc previous StJte OF
Development. It - known as the rsH"aI
gland. though covered by skin and Is
formed in an almost perfect condition
ia certain lizards.
You have four gills or bronchial
clefts, which. however. are now closed
up and useless. You originally had
six, but two OF them,=hY forming into
your ear and mouth. respectively.
turned themselves to some account.
However. before your hugs developed
and became fitted 10 carry on your
| breathing system. TIE work a2S done
| by the four gills which have since
| childhood ceased to develop and U.e
come closed up.
| your ears that is, the outer ones-~
| are quite useless save as ornaments.
! You could hear just as we'll Wltkout
them. All the work of hearing is done
by the middle ear, or tynpanum, and
tie internal ear. The outer feature is
purely II pleasant sort Of finishing
touch TO your hearing system. The
muscles of tie outer ear are powerless
, and not under our control.
! Are Won aware that you have a mini.
eture grand piano in your auditory
nerve, which is tuned up to every note
in music? This is known as Corti's
organ and consists of a series of tiny
hairs which vibrate on the drum of
your ear aud enable you to distinguish
the differences Of sounds.
AS sonnet .mes when you strike a note
on the piano some ornament in the
room will be found to sing With it, SO
each OF tacSe hairs inside your ear vi
blates IN sympathy with the musical
sound corresponding With it.
IN afno&aiy is generally useful
.nl4g wncn applied to books, but mans
M sen * is not only useless. h;'t very
trot;h;eS5iite This is the remains of
en iare~. az &u1poSfa to have formed
| parI OF or ancestors. Though many
other parts of the body are practically
useless, they are supposed to have
been useful at some time. but Sci"n-
! fists cannot trace that the vermiform
appendix was ever of any service to
man.
\ y
toes are quite superhuous. A man
could get along as we'll without toes
In fact Il doctor removed eight of a
mans toes without any Inconvenience
being suffered. and the loser got along
quite as Wen without them.
The teeth are rapidly becoming quite
useless Now that nearly all our food
, have to bite through hard substances
teeth are gradually decaying.
The fact that the teeth of our an
cestors 400 or 500 years ago We're In
finitely bigger than our own shows
that nature Is gradually taking away
these organs.
/ Tonsls. too. are almost useless and
fulfill no serv'ceable object to the body
People can get along quite we'll with
out them. AID very large proportion
Of the population have had them re
moved.
Both the hair and the skin have end
ed their days Of usefulness to the hu-
man race The hair was intended to
cover our heads from the heat of the
sun. We cover up the hair, and by
shutting it off from the exposure which
gradually but surely losing this adorn-
ment, and it is estimated that in time
we shall cease to grow it.
AS to the skin, it was given us to
protect our bodies from the elements.
BY covering il up with clothing and
preventing it getting proper respira-
ton we deprive ourselves Of it's use
1t is not inconceivable that the man Of
a very remote future period may be
ekinleSs as well.
The most extraordinary thing to be
noted about all this is that those parts
of the body which are useless give us
the most trouble. while those in con
slant activity remain quiescent. The
teeth. through lack Of work, get lazy,
as it were. and decay.
The tonsils, having nothing to do,
make your life misery to you through
continually swelling until they are re-
moved. The skin. which is useless to
civilized man. has large variety Of
diseases to vent on US. largely due to
its compressed condition.
The vermiform appendix. which is
absolutely useless, has nice little dis
ease of its own. which it develops with
often fatal results. known as appendi-
eitiS
man can live without his frontal
bone. At q recent accident a workman