Show ml ca ft industries YOU HELP UNAWARES r showing how your every movement does some trade a good turn s if you throw a stone at a dog and fail hohlt it you imagine that you have wasted your time and muscle for nothing but this i a mistake you have turned a certain amount of muscular energy ato heat the stone has been warmed by friction in its passage through the flir still more by its contact with tho ground and certain particles of the air have also been heated of course this heating is so blight that the sense of touch appreciate it but in the case of a bullet fired from a rifle against a target the rise of temperature caused by the bullet the iron of the target is very plainly perceptible to anyone picking up aitho spent missile it is in fact impossible to do without producing some result you cannot even breathe without affecting other things outside boursell yo urselL the air goes into your lungs pure but comes lout charged with carbonic acid gas this ea is justas essential to plant life of every kind as pure air is to your own life and health by the time a man ia forty lie has breathed out sufficient car libnic acid gas to naf cr the wood of a good aided tree it is therefore quite possible that your chair may be made out of timber which your breath has helped to make or that the sleeper which hold in position tho railway lines over which you travel may bare been formed in fashion O POWER OF A auml OF COAL practically every action of our daily lives has an effect beyond that which we consider at the time many of them 1 results very much more far leaching than we ever imagine you put a lump of coal on the fire it it weighs a pound only yet the amount of energy you let loose is positively alarming an exceptionally powerful man can da halt as much work as a horse for a brief period not more than two and a half minutes at a time imagine men pulling with all their power at a great rope until at the end of seconds they fall back exhausted that little black cumpf coal could do all that work and continue it for another t wo minutia ca if you could utilize all the heat it gives forth before it crumbles down into white ash blut in burning eliat coal you are doing more than waste a large amount of energy for the purpose of warming your room you are letting loose a large quantity of the same carbonic acid gas which you yourself manufacture by breathing and so very possibly helping in your garden to grow the ashes from your grate will be to morrow morning thrown into the dust ban and if your town js in economical one they will be used to produce heat to drive a dynamo so some of thearen ergy may return to you in the shape of electric light COAL SCUTTLES MAKE TRUNKS in digging t out of the scuttle you gradually wear the scuttle out you order tha maid to throw it away and you never think that in eo doing you are aiding the manufacture of trunks and boxes the old coal scuttle ia dug out of the municipal rubbish heap the portions clipped out cut into pieces of suitable size punched with email boles varnished black and mod by the trunk maker to protect the corners of cheap trunks and bobea th simple ordering of a joint of beef for dinner pulling the strings of an almost incalculable number of different oradea which if everyone gave lip beef as an article of aliet would ceana to exist tho butcher of 1003 could make no profit out of the beasts lie kills were he nofa to use up every atom of the coxs body besides that U for food thus you am encouraging the making of button of toothbrush tooth brush handles of billiard bulls of of mouthpieces tor pipes of chessmen of iain glasa of gelatine gp latine of ran act of many valuable oils and medicines auch as thyroids pow tier glycerine and neat oil as well aa at that terrible poison known as cn ids of po tysium ta you have eaten your joint and boiled iho bone don for stock the go into the dustbin but they do not end their career there either the bone i finally boiled down into eluo or ground up for fertilizer and paw to the market gardener who us MJ it perhaps to grow the early toma toes or new potatoes which you will tat next spring As au alternative it is that you are indirectly doing a good turn to the match trade fur old bones are the chief source of the phosphorous with which matches ara tipped you order the cook to make a plum pudding afi follow your joint of roast beef thereby you not only benefit the currant growers of greece but a helping hand to the copper mining industry copper gul plute i absolutely to lie grapo grower as a wash to keep liis vines freo from a certain extremely destructive fungus SARDINES biell TO GROW COTTON mines of different kinds arc benefited at the hand handi i of the average pernon several times a day if you write a letter for instance you encourage tho iron mining industry not only do youw car out a teel pen but the ink you use is also partly made from a compound of iron By reading your newspaper you also encourage mining for the type from which it was printed of lead and other melang alloyed together open n tin of sardines you arc en cou raging the growing of cotlon to make beta to giving a helping hand lo 10 the growers and manufacturers of oil in italy and alo assisting our own tinplate tin plate manufacturers what is you throw away tha empty tia you are giving employment in still a fourth industry old tin of every description arc now collected and melted down to be made into sash weights the opening and drinking of a bottle of bw involves much more than at first possible the effects are felt ia the laboratory where the yeast for making light bottled beer Is prepared by the farmer who gets so much the more brewers grains on which to feed bis cattle and by the cork grower to portugal MINERS LIVE 0 photography there ia also the manufacturer lo 10 bo considered and here a number of ardc ara brought la bottle glass is made op waste aalt from gas soap and alkali works and ihus all tintie tin tie are indirectly by your consumption of a bottle f beer finally the cork spoilt by the corkscrew is rescued from the das to be sold to the manufacturer of linoleum and may eventually re in your own residence us part of a bath mat put on a new pair of patent leather boots and you have assisted not only the tanner and currier but also the trade in eget eggs are used in the preparation of fin leather for gloves and boots go and get your photo graph taken and you are giving a little extra work to bamo bomo silver iliner |