Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — What Makes the Dimples. [ARTICLE]

What Makes the Dimples.

Accrding to an old legend the baby’s dimples mark the spot where angels’ fingers touched the child in bearing it from heaven to earth, but unromantic doctors have a different explanation. They say that dimples probably result from defective development of a muscle. When the muscle is called into use the defective portion fails to respond, and a hollow is left, into which the flesh and skin of the cheek, for example, fall, and thus the dimple is formed.