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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13390, 19 January 1907, Page 4 (Supplement)

The gtowth of the average finger-nail is computed to be oue-thirty-seeond of .in inch a week, or a little "more than an inch and a-halt a year. Imagine the care taken by the aristocratic Chinese in cultivating their finger-nails, which often grow to be six or eight- he.- long. Just think of letting your finger-nails grow tor eight years without cutting them! The finger-nails are said to glow taster in the summer than in the winter. The nail on the middle finger grow.- taster than any of the other nails, and that on the thumb grows slowest. It is also said that the nails on the right hand grow faster than those, on the left hand. According to the rate of growth stated the aveiage time taken tor each finger-nail to grow its full length is about four and a-iialf mouth.', and at this rate a man seventy yea is old would have renewed his nails one" hundred and eighty-six times. Taking the length of each nail as half an inch he would haw? grown seven feet nine inches of nail on each finger, and on all his lingers and thumbs an aggregate length of seventy* seven and a-halt' feet*