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Show and YOUR BODY j THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT v A The search team 06. O 6-H IZ.. IR to keep good has got to be like something else, i; hns got to "keep moving.' Once a lot of students weie sealed up in a tight glass room. Their cigarettes wen: out, the men wilted and dozed ; a fan inside started and set tlie air in motion, and immediately the students were as well as e er again. It was the same air, but it was moving Rboct. There is no dangerous amount of earbonle-acid gas from people, peo-ple, even in big meetings. Just 'keep the air moving.' "Here Is another thing which is even more valuable to know. You realize that our bodies have lots of enemies. You might think that carbon-dioxide gas, which we have to throw out of us, was our enemy. So he is. But our body is wise enough to make him into our friend." "How ever do they make him a friend?" "Exactly like an alarm clock. When we are asleep, if we have got our head under the pillow like the little princess prin-cess in the tower, we should turn blue and die. But long before that those ugly-looking carbon molecules would have rung up central in our brain office, and messages would have gone pouring in from every side, saying: say-ing: 'We carbons are getting overcrowded. over-crowded. Something is wrong. Please breathe deeper and quicker.' And if the brain would not listen, they would stir up the muscles, and the muscles would 'get busy' and send that pillow flying so, really, the enemy carbon have become our best friends. "So it is with drafts. Too much of anything may be an enemy and destroy de-stroy us. It is for want of a draft Nuts buttes oils hjlk. wt, b5" y that we get so sleepy in a crowded room, where the doors and windows are shut. "Remember this, too: 'Cold is the friend of our bodies.' The strong races come from the North, not the tropics. Germs cannot work properly in the cold. "Here is a thing that the world needs to believe more than all I have told you. It. and it only, can save the world from wars and murders." "Why, what is that, father?" "It is the one and only way to get rid of our enemies. There is an old story that to cure the cat that ate too many cockroaches, you must give it a dose of chopped-up beetle; or to cure a silly boy who Is smoking cigarettes, give him a 'whacking big' cigar. What did we do to save our soldiers from dying of typhoid in the war? We vaccinated vac-cinated them. How did the world get rid of smallpox, which once killed millions mil-lions of people? Vaccinated every one. How do we prevent colds nowadays? We vaccinate against them. Yes, we make the germs cure themselves. Y'ou only get rid of your enemies by making mak-ing them your friends." "What are our bodies built of. father, fa-ther, and vrho does the building?" "They are built of clever little cells, which are doing the work of building and repairing all our life long. "The cells have five main wires to the central olliee. These are called the senses, line is for our tongue, others for our r:oe, eyes, ears, and touch ma-ehines. ma-ehines. "All the tiny particles in our food are sunk together by energy. Isn't that a s:.r:uige kind of cement? I'm it is reiiiiy the same that keeps our old world buzzing around the sun, and glues the stars in their places. Our food is like charges of dynamite, which tiny detonators inside us can force to shoot off its energy, all ready for us to use." "Then don't we make our own strength, father?" "Oh, no, our bodies do not create one bit of new matter, any more than r-.n automobile does. We must put gasoline gas-oline into the tank all ready made, or the car will not go. Our bodies are the : uraie. They are mere machines, and we , get out of them only what we put in. Fortunately for the world there is one thing in it that can create more dynamite dy-namite out of waste, especially out of the waste of our bodies after we have thrown it away. You would never guess what it is. It is called the 'green-o'-leaf (Chlorophyll), and is the substance sub-stance that makes any leaf green. That is why I take off my hat to all green plants. The world could not last any time without chlorophyll. That breaks up waste, and catches the energy of the shinsbine, and sticks the particles together in new blocks, and then hands them to us as new. ready made food cartridges. If it is a potato, or flour, or corn, or porridge cartridge, we call it starch. The storehouse cells keep these with the sugars. They are all labelled 'carbohydrates,' because there is carbou and water in them. "A chemist recently said that the i necessary ingredients to make a man out of are as follows: "Items: Fat enough for seven bars of soap ; iron enough for one medium-sized medium-sized nail ; sugar enough to fill a shaker; lime enough to whitewash one chickencoop ; phosphorus enough to make two thousand and two hundred match tips, magnesium enough for one dose of 'salts' ; potasli enough to explode ex-plode one toy cannon, and sulphur enough to rid one dog of fleas. Even at post-war prices you could buy the whole lot for 08 cents. "It is easy to remember that the body uses the starches for fuel to burn up meats, proteids, and fats, or hydrocarbons. hydro-carbons. "Of course every cartridge must have a cap to set it off and enable any one to make use of its energies, just as a stick of dynamite must have a detonator. That is exactly what the supply cells do, they set off the cartridges cart-ridges which the plants make ; or you can say that the cells are playing the great game of life, and the plants keep sending down the things to play with. Now we will label each player. H does not staud for Harvard, but for hydrogen ; O not for Oxford, but for oxygen ; C not for Columbia, but for carbon ; X not for Newfound--land but for nitrogen. The plants arrange ar-range these players into regular teams. We start them marching down the red lane, and the cells set them free to play. The cells know exactly how to use each team, because they know how many there are of each kind of players play-ers in each group. Thus the Starch Team has 2 C's, G O's and 12 H's. That is the team, as you now know, which gives us energy the quickest. You will learn about the other teams some day. Each has the same kind of players. (See picture.) "There are a few special things which the supply cells must have to do their work. These tliinus they cannot can-not manufacture; and for them we have got to go back once more to our friends the plants. These things are to put life into the players something some-thing like the lemons which people throw the football team at half-time so we call them 'vitamlnes.' "The United Cell Company are a very remarkable crowd. They not only do all the upbuilding, but they get together to-gether and practically tell you and me what they want, and make us give it to them. When they shout out, we know what they want, and we call It 'liking a tiling.' As a rule they call up central about three times a day, for they have a wonderful habit of look-ing'ahead. look-ing'ahead. and they want to have supples sup-ples Just where they can get them when they need them. Thus we call their shout for II and O being thirsty, because two H's 1 "tie O make water. wa-ter. By the way. do you know that about three-fourths of our whole body is water? Sometimes they call out: Su--:ir. please.' 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