BIG EARS PREDICTED
The noise and clamor of modern city life are producing a race of elephanteared men and women, says Dr Fritz Pfuffer, a Vienna ear specialist. He predicts that in the not-too-distant future human beings will have auditory extremities the size of a dachshund’s. Women, savs Dr Pfuffer, will be hardest hit. Tlie grandchildren of women who now wear their hair over their ears will have to continue the fad, because their ears will so unsightly that they must ho covered up. Dr Pfuffer bases his prediction on measurements of patients’ ears during the last thirtyyears. The continual strain _on tho auditory nerve when a person is listening to "a conversation amid tho din of city traffic is a responsible for tho change, he says.
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Evening Star, Issue 19275, 14 June 1926, Page 9
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127BIG EARS PREDICTED Evening Star, Issue 19275, 14 June 1926, Page 9
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