The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-23
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soME HIDDEN FEATURES AND. oTti,-
Frs THAT ARE USELESS.

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Frs THAT ARE USELESS.
An Eye That is sovss BIZ nd and G HIS
and the Toe Nails Are More ornn-8
men tai Than Servtcenb1e. $5
Has any one ever complimented You
on the beauty of your upper eye or in
Equired after your gills !? Tor, though
you may not know it, you number
these among the disused features OF.
your body. :S
In the center Of your brain, looking
vaguely skyward, lie the atrophied re-
mains of Il bird eye, which, IT is sup
posed, was actually one of mans use
frf textures at some previous sta tie of
development. It is known as the plneal
gland, though covered by skim and IS
form ed in an almost perfect condition
lin certain lizards.
BE You have four %gills, or bronchial
clefts, which, however, are now closed
up and useless. You originally had
SIX, but :tyo Of them, by forming into
! your ear and mouth, respectively,
turned themselves to some account
However; before your lungs developed
and became fitted to carry on your
breathing system, the work was done
by the four gills which have since
childhood ceased to develop and be-
come closed up.
a2 Your ca rs-that Is, the outer ones
are quite useless save as ornaments.
You could hear just as well without
them. All the work OF hearing Is done
by the middle ear, or ftympanum, and
the internal ear. The outer feature Is
purely a. 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 a mina-
allure grand piano in.< your auditory
nerve, which is tuned up to every note
in music? This is known as Cort1s
organ and consists of a 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
-oom will be found to sing with 1t, so
each of these hairs inside your ear vi
sbrates 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 Escien-
fists cannot trace that the vermiform
appendix was ever of any service to
man. -<s.f535g
Toe nails are entirely useless, and
toes are quite superfluous. A man
could get along as well without toes
r. 20 OF a ~ 2rpYn0vn1 eight of
mans toes without any Inconvenience
being suffe 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 serviceable object to the body
People can get along quite well with
out them, and a very large proportion
I 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
y 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 it.
AS. to the skin, it was given US to
protect our bodies from the elements
By covering it up with clothing and
preventing it getting proper respira-
ton we deprive ourselves of its use.
It is not Uncomfortable that the man of
very remote future period may be,
not only hairless and toothless, but
skinIess as well.
The most extra ordinary thing to be
noted about all this is that those parts
z 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 tonsi1s, 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 q large variety of
diseases to vent on us, largely due to
I its compressed condition.