Show arr I 1 from on t 1 carpea harpes har nar I 1 a pea pes magazine RUN eun OR THE DOCTOR JOE run for the doctor joe what tile the matter my dearv dear doar swallowed my iny wedding ring run cs mat kat as you cul cui the reader it i now ili in possession of the facts of the case as us rny my wife announced looking over tiie tile banister at the top of tiie the stairs and follow hig big her tier injunctions ap ar cordingly I 1 did ran run ve were boerding for the suin summer nier at tit the tho pretty little village of anh osset indian names are always pretty and so espres expressive igge of tile transfer of or real estate im in fit tile the real estate business butine myself and perhaps reason for my predilections iu in this case we were bo boarding ardino for the tile summer cs es I 1 sald said cr or rather rat ral iier lier my and lier tier en umbra unes ures wee wem As for myself I 1 slipped out of town on oil saturday eveni evening rg and aud was back again bright and early oil on monday morning occasionally to be sure I 1 did take a day in it the tile week if things bete fiat flat iles hes swallowed loved the ring ilea lisa hel hei said I 1 to myself mys lf ts hs I 1 went down the doorstep door step that I 1 had only otly a moment before gone up lip front from a very pleasant mornings walk weh wen n pretty go it until borne time after that it occurred to mo lne that lie ha lik I 1 come coma bs bor tha the trick honestly or 8 one oue haysay in an hereditary way for or you see sec ee P im n well to do in ili tiie tile world ive lve swallowed a good many gold rings iu in my time metaphor metaphors ca cell cill lil ill akings on oil rny my way up the tho road to the tho doctors house there were wera two women standing by the pump wonder said eaid the tiie one who was leaning on the handle if be a girl or a boy dunno danno said tile other the doctor was vas there all night and sent pat pal back with irith ins lis its tuggy 4 this aud allor allowed ed him to go for kirin irim after dinner time Is 19 the tha doctor at bome home I 1 asked of a hulf ats sta te be and half garden looking lad who camo came to the door dod gia ila it herself ba poorly lie ho inquired stop slap iu ILL ba bo back tha the ini uit nit any how low in half an hour I 1 pat youre lying thought 1 I recalling the con at the pump A little whee whet wheedling eling and a bright silvor dollar worked wonders ia in pats vie views so and saou seated us ili in tho doctors doctori buggy tit ili in pursuit of that tint worthy practitioner tiie tile the patient choking when yon leftel left lert inquire i pot pat a aboon soon boon as wo we were well veil settled fettled in the vehicle and got fairly under way cepo the folks get got scared and send for dr littleto Litt Lil lego llego iles llna the d dye ye see and were the tho giers viers hed tell ye that hed get the tho ere fjug out 0 that ere babby in a jiffy but im thinking its lis a c abe se take teko some of our big pills pilla would slip tir rough that rin ria and mud tahe take no wed ved seven calev of rid rio ring s swallowing wing last summer and lost only one lie ile had four und and every died ile he stop them hen gettin out of the stomach into the lungs and und so they choked the tile last one lie mado made swallow sv allow another ring thema a eind kind lu 0 d of doctors a as bay say like cures tures like both ringa rings stuck We ailers allers finds the ring ia is stuck well if its agh up then tilen we ve gives pick and so it comes cornea by vomiting aud and if ita ltd out of reech roach of the laick eken acu we gives fives oil und so gets it any how oils a mighty greasy thing weve some in oui our office that im expect ili ill stay in ilu liu a man two inin tilts and yet et it dont look so fco when you pour it out of the tho bottle ft it comes th bobble it I 1 was a married mother bably babiy babiy had llad had its ring took out by oil 1 keep thit ring why wll wil ye atiee etlee see leb lia its ue I 1 ke caan coo cook thaus liffets in a book in fit our office that sailed in ili h ship chip all 11 round the world I 1 we found tile the doctor liick il had ind got through with ils his alij duties so half hunfau ali all conr brought tile ido back home with him on oil joe dont bs be angry but im so glad said my wife wire 1 I 1 found tile lile ring ton tin the tile floor a ter ler oud gone ile lie swallowed it and a sure bure enough there he lie was ws up his ills heels on oil trie floor us as a grasshopper such vere were tile the circumstances under which im my wiles exclamation nun run forture for lire life doctor joe brought ma me acquainted with it frind irh fri nd from whose instructive conversation I 1 first gathered a glimmering I 1 in ring of ad us to how I 1 live jive why wh I 1 live and und the tile vest best for me to do us long as us I 1 live well ivas was it for me that I 1 was war spared from tile tiie hands bands of dr L lego iego and from those of dr pepper the tile indan herb physician nn and set about r electing ting that if I 1 should swallow a ring gitig tny myself seif self is wih win hether glicr it would find its way to my stomach my brain my backbone or my iver lver I 1 er here liere we go breathing and areat ing leg twenty ar or more limes times a amul till oil our lives what is it if for la Is it to ventilate veti late the ilie inside of our bodies or to shake up gently the confenti conte conle it of our stomachs that d may be promoted another instance it tt dont matter whether you ou try it by b day da or by night summer or winter you ou always find the war of byoir air body the same when wilert tile the sige of brooklyn n reports a heat of JO I 1 degrees or when you ou see the ice carts going from the lle ile lie stagnant filthy eiith frezen pools round the outskirts of tile tiie city to the he confectioners confection ers cellars instead of on tile the ioe foe cre creams ims or cold lemonades lemonakes lemo lenio nades afterward to be ma detry the tile temperature ture olour of your own mouth by putting tile tiie bulb of a thermometer therein you will always find the heat la Is 03 98 degrees I 1 I 1 is of no use for us its to be told that our bur bodies are hot naturally i naturally atu rally rails mid and can call he ke hep 1 p up their thel r v arnith themselves common sense assures us that where there ia 13 warmth thew must bo be fuel anil to I 1 believe that a mans muns body is like a flame that keeps hot as long as it is is fed it is surprising how little common co amon sense people use in the nature of or their alvn bod boil and its infirmities in ili other othen matters ot T inter est ert they think for themselves in fit the best way the can call in tit th this g tit they give up lip the whole affair as yet yei after all it is is not so ficula to collect clear ideas on oil these subi subjects as here nere are some somo which winch I 1 have ilare met mth in a work ork have been bien rending reading for the maintenance m of or tile the life of mall man dree three conditions niu mut t bo be complied compiled with fill lie must hard air air water niter and combustible under the tila same sims s conditions also nii nil all ali animals exist even kven ILI in choka which eem seem f seem lo 10 furn furash ah ifs us is with wilh in instances instance stane of departure from tius tins geneal rule the exceptions are rather apparent than llian real to breathe to drink to eat are the llie requisites qui sites of life if there bs be among insects some bome which wl icci seem never to take lake water OT among fishes f some which never nver taste solid food these becu liiri ties disappear as soon as we e understand them thoroughly where a lilii liili development iraq lra lia been attained attai nedas as ili lii lil man experience assures us that tile the sante same inevitable result iwais awais a of respiration for a few abstinence from water for a afew few hours or from food rood for a few days das I 1 the supply ofa ora of a part necessaries of life i 15 adjusted to the urgency of the want the act net of breathing rs is incapable of delay but tho air is 13 BC every where presen present I 1 and alays aiwas fit for use we can call bear thirst for a little time thue and the tile earnol here and there furnishes lier tier sani gs and stores of other oilier water but far otherwise is it ili fit the obtaining of or food it is tiie tile lot of all animals to toe toc curb cure nourishment by b labor and evelt of men the ilia larger proportion both in in civilized and savage countr count res nes submit to a hard destiny to obtain their daily bread is the great object of lire life I 1 what is 13 the tile explanation of this feces necessity sity for a supply of air of water of food why is it that the system u will ili ill bear so little delay the answer to these thebe the se questions is is an all anwer answer of i onn orn ominous inous import the he condition of life is death no part of a living mechanism can act without wi phout wearing away aw a and fories for Us continuance there it is 1 therefore an absolute necessity for repair life lire ife far fr from being a state of immobility is is a state of ceaseless change ali an organism is is only a temporary form to which winch millions of particles passing pasting through a determinate carper career give rise tise it is 13 like liko he flome of a lamp which presents for a king time tune the tile sime aspect being ceaselessly fed an as it ceaselessly cease lessl wastes away awa but dut we never per mit ourselves to be deceived by the stimulated which such a i athral natural appearance offers we recognize it as anly a form arising ansing from tiie the course which the disappearing particles take and BO so itis it is even with willi man lie ile is fed with willi more than a ton Weight height of materi tl iu in a year 5 ear and itt fit in the tile samo time wastes more than llian a toi ton away there is therefore a general linlau bt lancing cing I 1 which every ever animal presents depending upon its receipts and its waste as a may be very ver veil well understood y cons cong a special caro cas thuston have hate a uniform standard of reference wo may assume 1 0 pounds is as the weight of a it healthy adult mail man now the tiie constant consumption of food waler water and air tends to increase that amount and am even in a very time i a disturbance aris arm aru mg from these sources would be were wera 41 ilg here hero ere not some causes of compensation but even eren after a year 5 ear of a it state of or health 13 1 is 3 maintained the weight may precisely what it was and nd this may continue i year ear after year yean in success in the tile ia tt of large quantities of solid liquid and gaseous matters does not no therefore necessarily add to the weight if there be thus cau c bues es for lor tile the increase of the tile weight height of a man map there are also causes for is its diminution minu mi nution tion tiou these are tile the various and excretions there is therefore a tendency to an nit increase nud nul a tendency to n diminution of the weight and in ili the tile adult condition deuro considering si these balance one another if a m mill min in of the tiie standard weight abstains from the tho taking of water hater and food a good balance would prove that in ili lre ire lie lite course of less than an nit hour lle tie has become li lighter wilter if it he lie still persists it needs no irs ru t to detect M what ilat is gobig gon g oil on the eye ese fe perc perceives elves it for emaciation ensues how then Ss Is it po poM lile irle for a living being to continue at its standard except the causes of iii it crease create are precisely pree isely equnn in ili to tile oil of or diminution ilmi jimi nution we may mas therefore assert tiit t it t tie vie food water bild blid atmospheric air taken tit t a div it period of tittle little is precisely equal to ull nit ille the loses toses to loses ses sms for if the lle ile lie receipts wena were greiter great gr esler filer ery ert tile lite weight ginst increase if tile the losses were ver ter greater tile eight weight must diminish persistency Persist eilev in I 1 it tji s respect rois rols equally and the tile c be ae is just us its simple as lu in the tiie common ol 01 life lite lie 1 0 pays pas it iss ss than til ui he lie grows il 11 his ins payments ila lla ineas are arf more I 1 than ins his receipts lie lle becomes become poor but his condition is is unchanged il if his payments and receipts ri cit are buro qua quai infancy old gad gr nd manhood answer id td these respectively from front tile the army and navy diet scales of france aud and england englund eng Eug iund lund wilch of or course are based upon the recognized necessity s of targe numbers ol 01 men ili iii lire life it is inferred that about 21 2 pounds avoirdupois of dry food per day are required fer for or each lu of this about thie tillei tour four tits are vegetable and the lle ile lie ri rist rest st animal at the tile close of an entire year ear the tiie amount is upward of pounds enumerating under tile the tile tiie ti ie of or water all tile the various drinks et c fide flae tea alco lol iol wine etc its estimated quantity is id about 1300 1500 pounds per annum that tor lor the nir air nir air received by breathing breit breil liing iring lay may be jakell ul at boo soo pounds with sith these figures before us we are abe abo to see how the tile case stands the tood lood water and air which a muli mutt receives anlou amount lil ill in the tiie hegr aggregate to more than llian pounds a year that ilat ilal 13 13 to about a ton and a half hair or to more than twenty times limes liis his weight this enormous enor moua quantity nia uia may well attract our attention to the tiie expenditure ol 01 material required for fur g of 0 life A living eing being is the tile reo res result ressell wull sull and of change on oil a prodigious scale it can liot biot be questioned that the materials ali ch rire lire rendered back to the tiie external world after having the tile pur purpose ose of the llie animal annn il and pa passed 1 ased through tile the lire are compounds of those which were originally received as food drink and air though they aticy may have in their course other fund jund und and it in our estimation viler forms recognizing zilig as indisputable tile the al fact that not riot an all atom can call be created any more mora than it call can be destroyed we should expect to discover in the ilius thus dismissed from tiie the system every I 1 article that had been taken it in what wint then is man Is lie not riot at form as is the hame flame of a limp tiie lite temporary result and rv presen preben tAlve of or fil rii giatis of atoms that are bre assing passi nag ili ill thron gli stats states of change a the parts of winch are ulic taken ansu idel arld and as replaced 1 the I lle lie lippe arance ol 01 personal identity lie presents year ear alier aller year ear I 1 ii i i only an all illusion ile he begina to di oie oia the thoo moment he begins to tre tra treathe breathe athe uthe one particle panicle after another is remove removed deway daway away tway even from front tile the inmost recesses ft of the body but how is il it about il lien iden tit ity it is related of a cokin country try fulti to t u boin loin om a knife llad had been given that ili in the tile coure course of time the llie ri rtin ei got loose louse and add one side of tho tilo baudle handle e me oid ell 11 flo fio carried tried it to a culler cutler and had the p part rt placed replaced after a time lh th other oilier side came cattle oft cir and this ile he likewise rent wed the blide I 1 likewise feli fed out ont and lie had a new one put in in A and ild lid so bo by decrees degrees 1111 till the 1110 01 original oil oli I 1 chiai ginal hial parts were w wre rp gone and there thero were others in their stead ile he had never |