OUR NAILS.
TWENTY WEEKS TO RESTORE A THUMBNAIL. '•Finger nails and toe nails, being merely flattened growth** of the samp kind of cells that the hairs are made of, increase in about the same way, though their rate of progress has not been so carefully studied. Some say that the finger nails grow at the rate of onethirtieth of an inch a week. Bean estimates that it takes twenty weeks to ; restore a thumb vail, and ninety-six ! • weeks to restore a toe na.l. I don't ! believe that," says Harvey Sutherland. I 'Onn when I was about sixteen, and had even less sense than most boys of that ago, I bought a pair of boots too short for me. I wore them, though | they hurt like sixty, and the first thing ! I knev the nails of my great toes came 1 off. Well, I know tbat it did not take | any ninety-six weeks to make them j good as new. Why, ninety-six weeks jis two years, lacking not quite two ! months. Don't tell me."
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11635, 16 March 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)
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173OUR NAILS. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11635, 16 March 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)
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