Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — Have No Use for Their Toes. [ARTICLE]

Have No Use for Their Toes.

If shoes go on forever why should not our toes, grow together? We have no use for them. We can't manage them. About one man in 1,000 can pull on his interossel muscles and spread out his toes. In (he remaining 999 these muscles are as dead as fiber. They haven’t been used since the Ihfant stuck his toes in his mouth and crooned a baby song without words. If we wore mittens all the time the individual control of our fingers would be lost We eat so much soft food that we have scarcely any need of teeth. Gums would answer every purpose, as mastication is performed by machinery before we begin a meal. There over 200 distinct muscles in the human body, of which the best of us keep about 100 in prime condition by proper use.—New York Press.