Show S II The Leaf S i 1 5 By DR FRANK CRANE The most important of all living things thinS's is the leaf eaf u S f Many Many le leaves ves such as spinach lettuce e etc are aloe eaten aten raw ir in Iq salads or cooked directly Most of the f foods ds however begin with a leaf and andres res lt in a fruit or vegetable Apples pears pears and other fruit to s sa say a nothing pf of ot tO tomatoes and bananas banan s are all aU a a modification tion of ot living forms in lb some way or other The tree is nothing but the developed leaf as all tree roe trunks start with a leafy bud I.- I. The leaf products eaten by man produce a a certain amount of heat as nourishment Burned in in the fire they hey give givet aut out outa ut a definite amount of light and heat Dr Gager Cager of Brooklyn botanic gardens said ald In inS a. a A. A S recent address that Dean Swifts Swift's description of extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers for tor later use during raw raw seasons are not so absurd after aftel all Th The most striking effect of ot the vegetation of th the earth is its green gleen leaves Even when these do not appear green as in leaved copper-leaved beeches the green coloring matter is there but it is overwhelmed by the e presence presence of another pigment S Now this leaf green depends upon sunlight and It t might be he called without called without too greatly stretching th the truth s sunlight The Tle J leaf at blade also ge gels gels' water and various arious s salis salts alts from rom the soil soli oxygen and dioxide gas from the air This process can only t take ake ke place in the presence of light and Is perhaps ps the most fundamental of all aU the processes es of life Eto So o the food that we eat whether vegetable or 01 animal th the clothing w we we wear i c cot cotton t n woolen or silk the frame dwellings In which some o of ot us live and ind the wo wood d coal gas and electricity that heat and light our buildings depend eventually upon green green- leaves S Most of or our butter butter and and milk comes from animals animals animals ani ani- mals th that t feed on leaves loaves All the wood and coal in In n the world was was formerly inside of a green leaf and the tie heat and light of our houses is the sunlight of ol previous geological ages t captured first by green green- green leaves and stored up In our Coal doal mines When Adam and Eve according to tradition made for themselves clothing of fig leaves It w was s an act acl typical of all future clothing as s well as of all aU future nourishment of or the race If It you are going to be a and worship strange gods we ye might mend to you as an ah of adoration the gre green n leaf Copyright 1927 McClure Newspaper Syndicate |