Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-05-02

| An Eye That Is Now Mind and ellis
That Are Losed tp--Thc Outer Ears
aud the Tee Nails Are More 0rna-
mental Than ;,cr,icenbIe.
/ Has auy one ever comllim"ntcd You
ON tie beauty Of Your upper eye or i'll
CURED after Your atlIs: For. though
you may not know it, You number
! these among the disused features "
Your body
In the center of your brain looking
vaguely sJiyWard, lie the atrophied re-
mains of third eye which, it is sup,
! posed, was actually one of mans use
full features at some previous state of
development. 1t is known us the pincai
gland. though covered by skin, and is
| formed in an almost perfect condition
i'll 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, by forming into
, your ear and mouth, respectively,
turned themselves 10 some account.
However, before your lungs developed
and became fitted TO carry on your
breathing system. the work was done
by the four eills which have since
/ childhood ceased to develop and be
come closed UP.
Your ears-that is, the outer ones
are quite useless save as ornaments.
| You could hear just as We'll without
them. All the work of hearing is done
| by the middle ear. or tympanum, and
the internal ear, The outer feature is
purely q pleasant sort of finishing
touch to your hearing system The
muscles of the outer ear are powerless
and not under our control.
Are you aware that you have q mini
eture grand piano in your auditory
nerve, which is tuned up to every note
In music? This is known as CortiS
! organ and consists of series OF tiny
| hairs which vibrate on the drum Of
your ear and enable you to distinguish
| the differences of sounds.
AS sometimes when you strike note
| on the piano some ornament in the
i room will be found to sing with it. so
each of these hairs inside your ear Vi
brates in sympathy with the musical
sound corresponding with it.
An appendix is generally useful
| thing when applied to books but mans
| appendix is not only useless, but very
troublesome This is the remains of
an intestine supposed to have formed
part of our ancestors. Though many
other parts Of the body are practically
useless they are supposed to have
| been useful at some time. but scien
| lists cannot trace that the yermiform
| appendix was ever of any service to
man.
Toe nails are entirely useless, and
toes are quite supertluous. A man
could get along as we'll without toes
In fact a doctor removed eight of n
mans toes without any Inconvenience
being suffered, and the loser got along
quite as we'll without them.
The teeth are rapidly becoming quite
useless. Now that nearly all our food
is chopped up for us and we do not
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
fnitely bigger than our own shows
that nature is gradually taking away
these organs.
Tonsils. too are almost useless and
fulfill no serv.ceable object to the body.
People can get along quite we'll with
out them, aud 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 hui
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
nature intended it to have we are
gradually but surely losing this adorn-
ment and it Is estimated that in time
we shall cease to grow 1t.
AS to the skin it was given us to
protect our bodies from the elements.
BY covering it up with clothing and
preventing 1t getting proper respira-
tion we deprive ourselves of its use.
1t is not inconceivable that the man Of
very remote future period may be
not only hairless and toothless, but
ekinless as we'll.
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 a nice little dis
se Of IT. Qyvn which il 6ayalanc with