People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — The Nose. [ARTICLE]

The Nose.

The nose is intended for breathing, the month for speaking and eating. Who has ever seen a horse breathing otherwise than throngh bis nostrils? Minnte scientific investigation has revealed the fact that the number of people who breathe through their nostrils are becoming gradually but surely fewer in number. The consequenoe is' that the nostrils decrease in size, while it has been found that the prevailing nose is quite an inferior organ to that of our forefathers. Doctors at the present time are frequently asked to operate on noses and to enlarge them. Their owners have found that they do not fulfill their functions as well as they used to. It is beginning to be feared by scientific people that if matters grow much worse we shall lose the use of our nasal organs entirely. It is a well known physiological fact that unused muscles and bones gradually disappear. Pish who live in the dark, for instanoe, or the mole, who resides underground, become blind. Thus, if we cease to use our noses for breathing, they will oease to exist They will beoom e so perfl nous I—Pearson ’ s Weekly.