Show YOURSELF YOURE T by GRENFELL WILFRED and YOUR BODY RENEWALS V 4 11 V to s jr i arpir morti vt actina as 1 ly lv foj 0 a MS SHOWS BLOOD agai bifford BIF FORr A rai marx DA C TO J vy a t 1 14 PIP 4 1 M r how the mother keeps the babas blood clean until it can breathe ninis li Is a world in which T alls everything keeps moving until it dies and moves off altogether as I 1 told you therefore unless it 11 Is to become a desert waste and disappear the most important of all arrangements must be that new things should all the time continue to be made or born into the world otherwise there would mould soon be no world at all you see your father and mother each had fathers and mothers and their fathers and mothers had the same and so BO on tor for nobody knows how many ages back in the making of new bodies we have a great part and the greatest of all responsibilities ties we who dwell in these bodies are also In trusted with the even higher honor that of helping to build a better world now if you take a bit of iron or hydrogen or even gold all you can make out of it Is iron or hydrogen or gold Ilo however wever it if you have two different things you can in time make many things just as hydrogen and oxygen combined make it new substance altogether called water or carbon and hydrogen make para ra flin or yellow and blue make green so carbon hydrogen and oxygen make starch or sugar or vinegar or a thousand other things take a cell and divide it equally and it will become two cells exactly like the first but take a cell and add something to it and it may become your body or mine the most beautiful example in the world of 0 this Is when you study what all matter Is made of it Is always made of two things A center like our sun called a proton or first thin thing 9 and a planet circling around it called an electron or second thing one tunny funny thing Is that these sun and plat planets lets are hold held together by attraction and nothing else and yet fedin to be ns as it were exactly pulling or working in opposite ways these are called positive and negative just as we speak of fit male and female u which Is practically the some same tiling thing it Is a splendid arrangement for many rei rea song that two are required for two heads are always better than one more capable more strong more useful more happy more self reliant suppose that every weed made a weed eed only the world would lie be choked with willi weeds and no one could live in it but something comes in and alters the weed a little and a lift bit more the next time flaw and so on until that poor weed may become a nice flower or a fruit just as a thorny cactus has suppose that every eiery egg made a chicken the world would be stuffed with chickens eni and there would bo be no nightingales and aind no other birds no aslies for they too loo come front eggs birds and flohrs mostly lay eggs as they are because birds and lilies blies li bodies are not nearly such delicate machinery as those of the higher animals like dogs or like ourselves plants Il antii also can call spread their eggs or seeds all around as soon as they are made just as the dandelion seeds can be blown about in the air and tumble about anywhere without being hurt they may get eaten alive by birds or animals but they are so wonderful they can live all through the long red lane of a bird while they are carried to some new place and then come out alive and grow better than it if nothing had happened but we cannot do that we must be taken care of much longer by our mothers it Is a very long while before we are old enough to breathe for ourselves or si swallow for ourselves or see for ourselves when at last we come into the world mother has to feed usi us and wash us and take care of us and then the teach us and clothe us and in fact keep us alive until we are old enough to look after our own bodies then begins the hard bard job of looking after ourselves now this most marvelous of all things on earth this cell that will become a full grown grom n man or woman a king perhaps a george washington maybe a wizard like edison or a heroine like florence nightingale Is at first so small that it takes a hundred dred and twenty of thern them in a row to make inake a single inch think of it your body was once only one one hun dred twentieth of an inch in size till like the illy or the Sic sleeping beauty it was awakened then a marvelous man clous thing occurred it started suddenly to grow large one cell became two two became four till thousands of cells had been formed then the outside cells gradually built a covering which became the skin and the middle cells set to work and became bones and muscles and machines of all kinds such as ve me have been talking about you sou arenow at the age to look well to the bodies that mother and father gave you thank god they are strong and perfect naturally all that cannot he done in a day it takes nine months to make a babas body ready to lie born A puppy dogs body can be made in six weeks during all that time tin the growing body Is floated in a special jewel casket 0 ho o canelous ma nelous that it grows larger exactly as the contents grow bigger of course there Is no air air in the casket so the baby body cannot breathe yet still of course it Is a living body and Is growing and must therefore get food and throw away waste anti and ashes or else it would starve stane or be pol poisoned the celli take cure care of all lint flat they rig up a wonderful arrangement so that the mothers heart shall drive the food around thousands of hollow pyramids in which the lie babes blood Is circulating and so BO bring both osy ory gen and foot food and carry away waste exactly as you saw it in the lymph follicles and in the hair tubes or capil laries mothers life Is the babas life for all aljo e long months think of what we all owe our mothers debts that we can never repay these look like this see picture Q by the bo bell ll 11 bynagte Byn aute too ino |