Book Excerpt: make the skin look pink.]The skin, you see, is made up of different layers. When you burn yourself, you can see a layer of skin stand out like a blister. It is white; but if the blister is broken, underneath you see the coat that is full of tiny blood vessels, so tiny and so close together that this whole coat looks red. The skin, like every other part of the body, is made up of tiny animal cells. In the outer coat they become quite flat like little scales and then wear off; and their places are taken by the ...
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Book Excerpt: make the skin look pink.]The skin, you see, is made up of different layers. When you burn yourself, you can see a layer of skin stand out like a blister. It is white; but if the blister is broken, underneath you see the coat that is full of tiny blood vessels, so tiny and so close together that this whole coat looks red. The skin, like every other part of the body, is made up of tiny animal cells. In the outer coat they become quite flat like little scales and then wear off; and their places are taken by the newer cells that are growing from beneath. The skin grows from beneath, and bit by bit it sheds its old outer coat. This is how it keeps itself nice and new on the outside and "grows away" the marks of cuts and burns.Now hold up your hand and look across it toward the light. What do you see? It looks fuzzy, doesn't it? Ever and ever so many tiny little hairs are on it. The other day a little boy asked me what made his skin look so rough? I looked, and saw that all the little hairs were staRead More
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Add this copy of The Child's Day to cart. $10.00, good condition, Sold by Blackstone Library Friends rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Blackstone, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1928 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Good. No dust jacket. Rubbed edges and corners. White splotches on cover. Interior clean and very readable with some pictures. 218 p. Includes: illustrations, index. Green cloth covered boards, sewn binding. Title in black on front and spine. 5" x 7 6/16" x 1/2" thick. Quote from frontispiece: "TO SERVE OUR COUNTRY AS WE SHOULD WE MUST HAVE HEALTH AND STRENGTH"
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