Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1914 — Something About Your Fingers. [ARTICLE]

Something About Your Fingers.

The cutting of the finger nails Is one of those little tasks from which we are relieved only by the grave. It Is computed that their average growth, in sickness and in health, is one-thlrty-second of an inch a week, a little more than an Inch and a half a year. This rate of growth, however, is not the same for all the fingers, the thumb and the little finger being the ones whose nails grow more slowly than the others, while the middle finger is the fastest of the lot. In summer It has been observed that they grow quicker than In winter, and some authorities hold that the nails on the right hand lengthen more rapidly than those on the left. In either case they grow four times as fast as the nails on our toes.