Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-10-24
Facts About the Face.

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red corpuscles of the blood.
The eyebsll is covered with coat
known az the "tunies sclerotica,
which is amazingly tough and elastic
and covers the entire ball with the
exception of the part behind where
the optic nerve enters, and Of the
cornea in front. The pupil of the
eye is deep hole filled by trans
parent lens and fitted with a most ex-
quisite arrangement of muscles which
widen when the light is dim and mar.
row it in strong glare.
Do you know that you have
"blind spot" in each eyer That is,
a small portion of the retina is incapa-
Bile of exciting the sensation of vision
when it receives the image Of an OBJ
jsct. The blind spot corresponds
with the artery lying in the center of
the optic nerve. By wonderful pro-
vision of nature the blind spots do not
correspond when the eyes are directed
toward the same object, go they cause
no inconvenience, and few beyond
doctors and opticians are even aware
of their existence.
Practically all persons are right
or left-eyed, although they may not
know it. One eye is nearly always a
little stronger than the other, and
consequently is used more. OF course.
the difference in many cases is 80
great that it has to be arti6cially COR
rected. In many cases, too, the pupils
of the two eye vary quite considerably
in size.
Short.sightsdness, it has been prov
ed, is more common among people
with light-colored eyes than those
with dark. At the same time, among
gray-eyed persons are found those
with the most powerful sense of vision
of any.
Muscular fatigue Of the eye can be
measured by the number Of involun-
tary eyslid movements, or blinks,
made per minute, Read by candle
light or other insufficient illumination
and you will find yourself blinking
seven times a minute. In ordinary
gas light you blink about three times
a minute, but if you work in sOftened
daylight or by powerful, yet shaded,
electric light your eye tires so slightly
that you do not blink more than once
in 80 or 35 seconds.
The eyelsshes give most useful aid
in shading the eyes. The average
| person has 100 to $50 hairs on the
upper lid and 80 to 100 on the lower
or, say, $50 to 500 lashes in all.
The eyelashes are not permanent.
They are constantly falling out AMI
growing again, and are entirely re-
| nswed at least three times year
Along their edges the eyelids are pro-
| vldsd with little oily secretion just
| sufficient to Keep the tears, which
wash and keep clean the eyes, from
overAowing.
Eyebrows which grow thick and
dark are q very sure sign Of q good
constitution and physical endurance.
If they are lighter than the hair they
indicate lack Of vitality. The nose, so
far as appearance goes, is the most
important feature of the face, and few
people are aware of how much its
eventual shape depends on character
and profession. At 10 a boys nose
may be a pug pure and simple, at
Is it may be almost Greek and at
25 it may have developed a powerful
bridge and become practically Roman.
Almost every great general who ever
| lived, from Alexander the great to
Wellington and General Grant had
Roman noses.
1t is to the delicate nerves of smell
in the nose that we owe our apprecia-
ton of well-cooked dinner and fine
wine. The palate has comparatively
little to do with it.
We have no special reason to be
proud of our ears. The human ear is
infinitely inferior to the movable, fun
mel shaped ear trumpet possessed by
the horse, by cattle, or even by the
rabbit or hare. Both men and apes
have lost the power of moving their
external ears, and there are many
sounds, such as the squeak Of a bat,
which are abrolutelY beyond the com
pass of the human auditory apparatus.
There is one peculiar point about the
ears. Of all our features, they are
those most likely to be exactly similar
in size and shape.
We have already mentioned that
A. 80 avaa of one individual are