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Show Ear of City Dweller Has No Rest Period Eetween beats the heart rests, and between breaths the lungs and diaphragm dia-phragm have an Instant'' respite. All the nerves and muscles of the body have some time when they are relieved re-lieved of duty except those of the ear in the' noisy city. This is pointed out by ear specialists, who say some thing must be done about It to lower the amount of deafness. City noises going on day and night keep the ear drum and the tiny bones about it in a constant state of vibration. vibra-tion. People accustomed to tliem sleep comfortably through normal night sounds because the nerves are adapted to something tike a temporary disconnection discon-nection with the bruin centers. Nocturnal periods of rest for the ears seem as remotu for the average city dweller as the pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow. His days and nights are a bedlam of motor exhausts ex-hausts and horns, the footsteps and voices of passersby and the thousand and one other noises of the city street Lebanon Reporter. |