The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-31
MOST PEOPLE LopsIpsp.
Differences Between the Legs, Eyes an,
Ears of Men and Women.


Differences Between the Legs, Eyes and
Ears OF Men and Women.
The two sides Of a persons face are
never alike. The eyes are out Of line
in two cases out Of five, and one eye is
stronger than the other in seven per-
sons out of ten The right aar is also,
rule, higher than the left.
Only one person in fifteen has per-
feet eyes, the largest percentage of de-
fects prevailing among fair-halred pee-
pie. Short sight is more common in
town than among country folk. and of
all people the Germans have the larg-
est proportion of short-sighted persons
The crystalline lens Of the eye Is the
one portion of the human body which
scontinues to increase in size through
out life and does not cease with the
attainment Of maturity.
The smallest interval of sound can
be better distinguished with one ear
than with both. The nails Of two
fingers never grow with the same ra-
pidity. that of the middle finger grow
ing the fastest. while that of the
thumb grow the slowest
In fifty-four cases out of a hundred
the left leg is stronger than the right.
The bones of an average human male
skeleton weigh twenty pounds; those
OF a woman are six pounds lighter
That unruly member. the tongue of
n woman. is also smaller than that of
a man, given a man and a woman of
equal size and weight. 1t may be ap-
palling to reflect. but it Is nevertheless
true. that the muscles Of the human
jaw exert 4 force of over 500 pounds
The symmetry which is the sole in
telligible ground for our idea of beauty.
the proportion between the upper and
lower half of the human body. exists
in nearly all males. but is never found
IN the female American limbs are
more Symmetrical than those OF any
other people The rocking chair, ac-
cording to an English scientist. is re-
sponsible for the exercise which I'M
creases the beauty Of the lower limbs
The push which the toes give to keep
the chair in motion. repeated and re-
peated makes the instep high, the
calf round and full. and it makes the
arkle delicate and slender
British women are said to average
two inches more in height than Ameri-
cans. Averages for the height OF wom-
en- show that those born In summer
and autumn aIe .aller than those born
in spring or winter. Tie tallcst girls
are born in August
AS far as BOYS are concerned those
who first see the light during autumn
ma winter are not so tall rs those born
in sping and summer Those horn IN
are the shortest: IN July,
the tallest
An average head OF fair hair consists
Of 1900 hairs. dark hair Of 100000
while a red head has only %, 200 Fair
laired people are becoming less numer-
ous than formerly.
A person who has lived seventy
years has had pass through his heart
about 675,920 tons Of blood the whole
Of the blood in the body passing |
through the heart in about thirty-two
beats. The heart beats on an average |
# seventy times q minute, or 36.792.00O /
times in the course of a year. so that |
he heart OF an ordinary man. eighty |
-ears Of age, has beaten 3,0o0.0o0000 |
times. The heart beats ten strokes a
Minute less when one is lying down
than when one is in an upright posi-
io..