Show YOURSELF rs by T GRENFELL WILFRED and YOUR BODY B 0 DY THE OVERALLS gg 0 V alt HILLOCK HILLOCK 0 N sawing T EPA ETC ALSO FIBROUS 0 NY DDT 01 SIDE TO weA A 1 flece or OF nj airn till nil the machines are ww WHEN packed away in the frame dvork 0 rk we must have lave a covering and it must be suitable for our 0 own work thus thug a oslis outside tit must be smooth and greasy to oil along through water a rhinoceros must he be heally scally armored for prote protection a birds very light and yet warm so fen feathers are best a polar bears very tough and heavy and so it Is covered with fur ours shout should first of all be very elastic very strong and iery cry sensitive to warn all the machines inside of any danger dont you think our skins are the most beautiful in tile the world look at the softness at the colors at tile the plasticity elasticity and how every particle Is olive alive you licar hear people talk sometimes of others having two skins that Is not so the truth Is that on oil the lie top surface tile the cells die on purpose to protect the others and then of course they we wear or out and fall oft off and more go on oil doing the same it Is like laying down your life for your friends see picture beneath thern them comes the layer we hlll III call the volunteers they are arranging themselves to die in long iong ranks liang sideways so as to cover more surface the busy crowd out of which they come that lives around and among a lot of lill locks Is nicely molded in mounds of tough fibers and these are burrowed through and through with food pipes to feed the crowds in some are hidden guardsman guardsmen guards men like the touch machines and cold and heat and pain pail detectors who are there to protect t the he whole body of course our skin must be watertight and so it Is witter water wont soak through and wont carry in poisons medicines dissolved in tats fats however can be forced through gli ellou enough ji to kill you thus belladonna mixed in an ointment kills the pain and itch of fly bites iut but some of it also sinks in and paralyzes the eye muscles cles and makes the great large black pupils I 1 that actresses love so much to have our skin besides being our armor has to help greatly to keep the whole body nia bine always at the lie same temperature to do that it lias has the cleverest dodges you ever saw first of all it has a great many little factories for making wax thee gla glands ads are always putting out a little wax was on the skin to keep the surface supple especially in lot hot weather iut suppose it suddenly gets very cry cold well there Is a little muscle round the gland eland that immediately squeezes out some foma extra wax was other muss cles that lint bunch the skin up together and make it thicker others that squeeze the hot pipes 11 in tile surface and so save heat being lost the sun has become therefore white and thick and waxy we call it lagno gooe ae ikin rut it saes a whole heap of heat these little factories are most numerous on our face because it Is nl ns exposed it if their openings get choi clinked ed they looke maka spots on our skin and we steam the part in hot lot water and so help belp to move the blok along then mete Is the hair which Is part of the hie aln s we dont need it for warmth like a bear or a heaver beaver because we can make clothes clothed aind fires iut but it does help bell to make us beautiful next the skin i carries factories that att rid of water thoe are to help to regulate the heat it if you fill a flat basin with water and stand it outside on thick straw on a warm night in india tile evaporation Is so rapid a and lid takes so much heat beat to evaporate it that ice will form in the bowl water evaporates all the time all over our surface but there are two and one half millions malli ons of little reserve toun foun tans all oner our body ready to turn on to wet the skin and coot cool it down as soon as its heat rises eien een halt a degree sit quite still in a very hot room and as soon as ever your whole machine Is one halt half of one degree totter hotter than the fountains begin to play and little streams run down all oer your body and start evaporating and we call it sweating ot of course it Is just the same thin if aou ou work or play very hard you have lave then to burn up ap a heap of fuel in all the muscle machines and the whole body would soon he h in a fever but tile the fountains all start going goin and the whole machine keeps just th the sanie same heat rach kach person uses up about two pints of water a day in this way but in a liard hard football match two cluts are lost in an hour Is one important thins thing to remember here clothes dont ever male make us warm they only keep in the heat we make in a still hot lecture room full of 0 people the water evaporates and makes a real cloud and then all I 1 the it e hot breath they breathe out gets held down donlin and they get sleepy find and bead achy start a fan going blow away the cloud stir up the air and they all 11 begin listening attentively to the sermon again practically no carbons come collie oft off through our skins tle cant pull them through we have spoken of the orrange arrangements range ments in the skin for signaling ng danger in the world of live cells that make mahe up this marvellous marcellous marv ellous coner coe ing are many detectives the sensitive tive hairs and touch ces cells and pain cells and cold cells and heat beat cells celig are among the number these are arranged especially on all the vantage posts like the lips tit at the entrance to the food canal or the lingers fingers that hit up against g and can feel everywhere and especially tile cells in the armpits arm arra pits where tile the b big 1 assels lie As I 1 told tod you the outside cells of the skin are really tiles or scales filled alth horny stuff like llop the great horns homs of a deer that fire are made new each year so tire are our outermost scales grow lug anew all the vil while that Is how our skins mend lend their own holes when ullen we wear out any part like we do our socks the nalls nails are part of our skins and are growing ull till the ehno as you know they tire are to pick up small things with and make our fingers much more useful ilot hot water on the skin makes it red because it enlarge the red blood vessels in it cold water makes it white irbite because it makes tile the mu muscles cIes squeeze all tit the blood out it Is often very good to dip your skin first into hot and then into cold water it helps hc ps to keep it nourished and healthy so always end your lint hot water both with a com sponging to take a good cold dip aery morning Is 13 a very beneficial benefic tal thing enough ellough said oft you go and wash yo your skins before bed co by the lh bell lao ino |