Show NATURES HUMS N BILL Written Whitten by Belle Delle Smith Member of Mrs Mra Bradford's Biology Class inthe In Inthe inthe the Junior High Nature seldom presents her bill but on the day you violate her laws But Dut It If you overdraw your account at her bank and give her a mortgage on your body be sure she will foreclose She ma may maj loan you all you want but she will demand the last ounce of flesh One cannot expect to have health for nothing It is a prize for a constant struggle Apart from accident we hold our life largely at will Very few people know enough to become old only three ot or four out of a hundred die of old age There Is nothing we aro are more Ignorant ignot- ignot ant of than the physiology and chemIstry chemistry chem chem- stry of the human body Not one person in a thousand can correctly loate locate lo- lo 0 cate ate important internal organs or describe describe de- de scribe cribe their use in animal economy Nothing else is so Important to man manas manas mans as s the study and knowledge of himself him him- self elf and yet he knows less ess of himself than nan he does of 01 the world about him The human body is the great poem of the Great Author Not to learn howo how to o read It it to spell out Its meaning to appreciate Its beauties or to atte attempt p to o measure its mysteries is a disgrace to o our civilization Often pUen from lack of exercise one one side of the brain gradually becomes para para- used and kod Into I How intimately the functions lons of the nervous organs are united The least swelling welling presses presse a nerve against a bone and causes extreme agony and even evena a Napoleon becomes a child A corn com on the toe an infection of the he kidneys or the liver a boll boil anywhere anywhere any army where on the body or a carbuncle may seriously affect the eyes and even the brain The whole system is a network of nerve organs of functions which are areso areso areso so intimately joined and related in such close sympathy that one injury to o one part is immediately felt In e every cry other It is a wonder that we live at all We violate every law of our being yet let we wo expect to live to a ripe old age Our bodies are timepieces made by nn an Hand wound up to run A century A particle of ot dust or the slightest function will throw this wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- timepiece out of order Yet we often leave it exposed to all corroding elements We do not always keep open the twenty-five twenty miles mUes of ventilating pores in the skin by bathing We seldom delicate wheels of the body wr wu I ue Ae oil oU of gladness We expose it to dust dust and and cinders colds and draughts and poisonous gases We shrink from contact with filth and disease yet we pour a glass of ice water into the stomach busy in the delicate operation of digestion ignorant ignorant ignorant ant of the fact that it takes half an hour to recover from the shock and get the temperature back to ninety- ninety eight degrees We pour down alcohol which thickens thick thick- eru ens the velvety lining of the stomach and hardens the gray matter of the brain We crowd meats vegetables pastry patry confectionery nuts raisins wires and fruits into one of the most delicate organs organ of the body After all these abuses we do not give the blood a chance to go to the stomach stomach and help it out of Its misery but summon It to the brain and muscle not withstanding the fact that it J so Important to have an extra extra extra ex ex- tra supply to aid digestion Although the heart weighs but a little little little lit lit- tle over half halt a pound yet it pumps eighteen pounds of blood from itself forcing It into every nook and corner of the entire body and back to itself in inless inless inless less than two minutes What a folly to force the willing hard working slave to greater exertions exertion by To us in a healthy condition nature takes us back to herself puts us under the ether of sleep and keeps us there for nearly noe third of our lives while she overhauls and repairs Continued on Page Eight NATURES NATURE'S HILL DILL Continued from Page One in secret our wonderful mechanism We must pay the penalty of our vocations Those who prize long life ute should avoid all occupations which compel them to breath Impure air especially those who Inhale dust from steel brass bras Iron the dust hi a and dust from th threshing He tie who 10 violates plates Natures Nature I Suffer the penalty L Ia millions though be |