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Show SCARS THAT STAY ON B0D1 Though the Idea of Regular Sever Year Change Is Right, It Has Its Limitations. f There are people who tell you thai everything In the body Is changed every seven years, and that there Is no part of It which was there seven years ago. This does not mean that we slough the whole thing off at once, as a snake doea Ita skin or a deer Its antlera, but simple that the lunumerablo and tiny atoms which are used up by the dully wear and tear are replaced by fresh atoms supplied by our food and drlt.k, which keep the body going, just as coul and water keep the steam-engine at work. Hut these changes are so minute and gradual that the form of the body remains the same, although such things as scars take a long time to disappear, and sometimes they remain re-main for life, although they always lose a great deal of their prominence. You may have noticed that If you cut your finger lightly It will soon beal up and the scar presently dlsap-pear. dlsap-pear. Just as the marks of a superficial super-ficial burn will gradually go away; but If the cut Is deep the scar remains. re-mains. This Is because It went down to what Is called the true skin. Any cuts, stains, or burns on the outer skin are gradunlly flushed up and worn or washed off, just as the hair on the back of your hand wears off without your cutting It and grows again; but anything that goes down to the true skin, like tattoo marks, always remains. |