Show Q Qs s r t r I PI fJ tt 4 p eratus One laces of of in ilia iliac a aOne use c t And Why You'll Be Quite Comfortable in an With mighty every bat Babe awing of Ruth his nis the Home Run King at Institution measure the Carnegie the to JY Ice Cold Movie y Theater if Yu 4 re Sitting R ex enough expends p e D d to heat beat reduce energy energy his weight very perce human body's a Isa efficiency heat machine as a J Jand Beside a Fat Person and the Film Is and see how t r ti q fast violent a 1 Real Thriller a makes us g i lose weight Cd t a i ii if it i r e f t aerl b 1 t to o f 1 d ro x s 1 t C s a aw r 31 w r ar arf r tf f W i t i it M tY h f fn n I R t A uj t J r SG i v t tas s d as A As The breath expelled by the of the stationary bide rs 1 iii a solution of sulphuric add and soda lime which separate i 1 th the e carbonic add and water from it sAtt n c c h to toa a S1 1 a Ny FT t the can be bey y measured 1 E u I 2 aR- aR aRS aRm p S m S St Sy t a 7 y r t i e Yr 4 OY yi i i t u yf sr r rt r fw 1 d a s 1 1 t S Q i ii e n c K r W Ws 9 t K ti 4 i dart w a J 6 sar 1 xh Q r d dJ J p h hA A r D DJ J P t- t I r xo Z t J A W n Q i E x xA i Miss Pearl Pearl N f ff f White fast asleep her dog very ra mach bat awake awake both losing weight los lose w weight while you sleep YOU Every EHry I cry hour that you yon spend In bed you ou lose an ounce or morn more When you ou get up in the morning you weigh about ten ounces less than you dl did didat didat at bedtime Throughout the day your weight fluctuates fluctuates so 0 constantly that it tt is never the same tv o 0 hours together When you yon walk or take other a you lose weight rather rapidly But you lose even when sitting still in a II chair As you are lire sitting now at ease read read- reading reading ing mg these printed words words you are every r fifteen teen minutes enough avoirdupois avoirdupoIs avoirdupois dupois to equal the weight of a pin That mounts up If you iou ou are exercising very violently you may lose as much as ten pounds m In ma ina a single hour I Seems incredible does It L not h But these matters have been reduced to definite proof by hy recent experiments of the Carnegie Institution in which use was made of an extraordinarily senei- senei sensItive sensitive tive twe balance It is a big pair of scales On one side sido IS a pan for leaden weights from the theother theother other end of the beam of the balance hangs a chair in which the person under observation sits site Sitting quietly in the thaw chair the person loses weight very gradually but steadily and perceptibly The scales incline so that the chair shows a tend tendency ency to nse rise In order to maintain the hal bal balance bal balance ance a pm pin has bas to be placed about every fifteen minutes mIDDles in a little pan pau fastened to toone toone one oae of the steel wires wars by which tho the their is suspended suspended- If the test lasts lam fo for some somo hours there will be several pine pin the tho total of which will represent the tho weight lost last Tho The loss of weight meanS mean's means of coarse loss of J II substance The substance lost IS water ter At all aD tunes whether yon are am rea weep or awake sitting BItting still or exercising water IS flowing out of your body through the surface pores in myriads of tiny buy riv rivulets riv rivulets You cH all this phenomenon per per- per The water thus poured out through the pores passes off oft and aDd away from the body in lD the form of vapor It represents represents senta therefore Just so much h loss of weight To drink water tak taking ng it into inlo the stomach is to replace the weight th l lost But that is not taken into VIeW In this discussion The person under ex- ex experiment ex a experiment sleeping o or sitting still ts la not drinking or eating anything But in the mean tune time be tie perspires and the water lost thereby diminishes his Ius w weight ht When Whoa he be moves about perspiration is ish I h ti 7 Jr g gA A r if Y i e ex x fr II 1 tV J t era 1 v P A Yr ik f a It increased and loss of o water I lo loss s of weight weight-Is weight is more rapid It U he indulges in- in indulges in indulges in m violent exercise the of the loss is much grell greater ter terA A per person on loses weight by le perspiration least rapidly when asleep or orSI SI sitting still but the point here bere made is that even en under those circumstances loss los los or of weight meaning Height meaning loss of water water-IS water continuous and very iery appreciable When you breathe the air exhaled from your lungs carries some moisture with it con con- contributing contributing to tho the loss of weight The weight lost during the night IS quickly made good by fluids drunk in m the morning so that the loss is h only tem tem- temporary temporary But there is no truth in the notion that plenty of water tends to male make people ople fat The only IDly th thing Dg that makes fat IS 13 food A few days ago in III Washington a novel weighing apparatus was exhibited to a group of interested scientist sCientist- A man sitting in m the scales lost three ounces In Inan Inan inan an hour and fifteen minutes That was remarkable But inquiry developed the fact act that that being late for his appointment at the tho Carnegie io Institution be he had run the last th three o blocks of the tho way there thre thereby thereby by starting a vigorous perspiration all of If the Insensible perspire perspiration tion is water vaporized from the lungs and skin A small fraction traction of it is body chemically burned in the body fur fur- furnace fur furnace nace Moderate exercise such sueh as ae walking males makes loss of weight more rapid When vigorous exercise is taken there thero is visible sweat and loss of weight is correspond greater Very severe GeHre exercise tremendous doua dour dous losses Thus Thua a football player weighed before and after a game the interval of time being only an hour and Ind eight minutes was found to have havo lost fourteen p pounds I 1 But Dut nearly all of it was water It was estimated that he be had lost only about four ounces of ot body tissue the rest was water admitted through the pores of his skin o or exhaled from his lungs Needless to say ny the water lost lort in n such sucha socha a way Is quickly replaced and the weight thereby promptly regained It will be noticed that a after violent exercise person is usually very thirsty Another test showed that UnIt a 11 marathon runner lost eight and a half pounds in 10 three hours and ten minutes Yet another was applied in the ease case cn c of an oarsman who rowing a mile four four race lost five and a half pounds in two two twenty minutes Fifty men t when quiet qt et in fai bed h showed A J JI g I gJ i dr t tr r jI I jIt t rl t t r t 1 Artificial II f cial heat would be es sary nary in a church or theater evenin even evenin evenin in very cold weather ifa if a number ofas of as asgood asgood asgood good heat heal pro pro- producers producers as a the young woman shown on OD the right were scat scat- scattered scattered scattered through the auditorium an average loss of one and one third ounces an hour In all cases the loss of weight Is Isan isan Isan an index of the t body's heat production pro pro- production The hu- hu human hu human i man DIan body is an engine andall and all of the energy de de- developed developed de developed by the burning of fuel whIch is food i m In its t firebox rebo eventually uI ap- ap appears ap appears pears in the fo form of heat Thus a person plaYing tennis which is vigor vigor- vigorous I OUR one exercise may soon become over over- warm over warm The body is generating so much heat as to 10 tobe tobe be uncomfortable The heat Ki sue S N Nu t u gb y 1 jS w H as r b H Z F rP 4 f fb fF r rII a A a rp i iT T i iy y pew a fl v ea r rb b d daN r wV t aN J AMY AMYr r x d df di y f w ar i v 5 it B r h kA b J o of a football foot foot- football ball player in m a keenly contested game gamo is enormous One sees young yoong men doing a mara mara- marathon mara thon on a winters winter's day through city streets or along a country road Though the thermometer be pear to zero and clad as they are aro ID en running drawers and nd little else they are not cold They may even be bo sweating visibly wh while e the tho moisture exhaled from their lungs males makes lIttle clouds of vapor in lD the freezing air au They are losing weight all aU the tIme At the end of every m milo mile e each runner WeIghs some BOme ounces less than at the be- be beginning be beginning ginning of the mile mUe Each square inch of the skIn Ain that covers overs the human body contains pcr pores may be lilt Ilk med lik-med reed d to little drain dram pl pipes s 's Each drain drainpipe drainpipe drainpipe pipe is 18 about a qun ter of an inch long and the aggregate length of them for the entIre body is nearly forty miles The aggregate surface of the air cells o I i l of f an adult persons person's lungs is over square an inches an area nearly equal to that of the floor of a II room twelve feet square Hence the tho capacity of the lungs for rapid exhalation of Water tater water vapor The ener energy developed by the marathon runners is converted into the heat WhICh keeps leeps them warm A physicist would say that after afler being utilized utilised for muscular muscular muscular lar work it is degraded into beat heat The fuel supplied to the body in lD the form of food is chemically burned m in the digestive firebox About one-fourth one of the energy developed is used to ran nn its Internal machinery to machinery to keep leep the heart pump pimp going and to operate other VItal apparatus The remaining three three fourths is available for external muscular work In proportion to fuel consumed the human body produces more power than the most roost improved steam oil or electric engine SClE Scientific study of a bicycle race not long ago showed that in the u Above a y type of 9 the movie is scent scene c e n f fra ra which stirs stirs the t h he e spectators emotions so 50 that their then bodies give off more heat and lose more weight Sand and the theater grows suddenly warmer first t enty twenty tour four hours of the contest the winner did cork nork equivalent to lifting pounds or nearly two tons tox toa to x a a height of one mie I Loss of VI weight eight the Carnegie caper caper- e pen pen- menters found is an anS S index of heat productIon production pro- pro production This means SlID simply ply that it is u o directly proportionate proportion proportion- ate to the amount of heat produced bytho bythe by i the tho body The more active the exercise the g greater r e n tor the amount of heat de- de developed developed de developed and the themore themore themore more rapid the loss 1088 of weight Mean Mean- Meaning ing mg as already ex- ex explained n almost I m 0 s t wholly holly a loss of water which is only temporary As a heat maker the human body is a marvel manel It is more efficient than thebe the be best bes t stove one can buy pi educing ng much more heat heit for the quantity of fuel con con con- S The Toe amount of heat given off by the bod body of ot an aver avor- average average age adult person not actively exercising the tho ordinary ordinary ordinary about in m at moving but home homo sufficient to raise the tem tem- temperature temperature nary way IS if of gallons of water 10 de de- degrees degrees de degrees grees in m twenty tour hours Did you ever er sit n neat ne t to a large fat person on a warm night at the theater or elsewhere T If so you will have found the contiguity uncomfortable A big stove radiates more heat beat than th n a little stove and have proved that fat people give out more heat than thin people A crowded room soon becomes oppressively oppressively lively warm because it is filled With lIving hying stoves For this reason theater owners make a pout point of keeping their playhouses cool even in cold weather It has the incidental advantage ic of economizing economizing mizing fuel Professor Edward Idward F T Miller of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology w wh wJ wh h J has made ex experimental tests on Dos Boa f t Q O 1 1 P A m h A t w Ji t ton audiences says that exciting plays and stimulating moving pictures entice people to t throw off oil more beat heat Some theater thea-ter owners actually lower the hea heat t supply as acts approach a climax If such B a thing were possible it would be interesting to ascertain the tho weight eIght or of oran oan an audience say of or a thousand peo people le gOing going- into a theater and again agam comIng out The aggregate of weight lost mIght be sufficient to compose one adult indi individual vidual t There is of course coarse no warmth in the tho clothing you ou wear nor in the bedclothes that cover CoHr you on cold winter 1 nIghts They servo serve merely to insulate your bod body stove tove obstructing radiation of heat eat there from It is your own body that sup supplies plies phI's the heat and keeps you warm At all times bIles whether sleeping or wak waking ing mg you try to maintain a balance balanco be be- between between between tween the amount of heat your body pro pro- produces proa produces duces and the amount it gives off If It produces more than it gives off you feel too warm if it produces produce less you ou are chilly In the e former case at night you YO throw offa of off olT a blanket thereby reducing the insulation In iii in the latter case you pun pull more bedclothes bedclothes s over you ion on Even Iven while asleep you are losing weight at a II rate of of f more than an ounce Ln an hour But it is only water and you have plent plenty of that to spare Your body IS two thirds two thirds water Take Tale for example a young woman weighing pounds Her body con contains tams two seventy pounds pound of Water water or file fh e quarts Her bones are 22 23 per percent percent percent cent water her fatt tissues SO 80 per cent her brain and spinal cord 75 is per cent her lungs and heart 79 per cent and her blood 83 per cent water Speaking of sleep the most interest interest- interesting interesting ing log fact thus far ascertained in m connee- connee connection connection tion with it IS 13 that when it arrives the blood flows out of the brain braID If U you yoa sere ere able to watch the brain bram of a per per- person person son passing off olf into you would see Ce it gro grow pale and diminish In volume To th test te t th's a very interesting con con- con has been invented called a asleep sleep balance The person under ex- ex experiment ex u experiment lies lea down upon upen it and poised horizontally falls asleep As he does so the end of the balanco on w which hIS bis feet repose slowly drops owing to departure of blood from the tho head which is thereby there there- thereby thereby by rendered lighter in lD weight Apparently the inclination of the tho balance w 15 proportional to the depth of sleep It is b manifest manlIest that in lD deep seep the brain is ia relatively bloodless When on the balance the person wakes the Wood blood bloods WoodI s I flows back into his brain as eVidenced by a restored equilibrium of the th ma- ma ma machine clime chine It is II to bo be inferred then that if a per per- person person son be troubled by sleeplessness s anything that will draw the blood away ay grim from the brain is helpful helpful-as helpful aa for instance a hot footbath before mg to bed and a e lUll glass of mill milk or cup of hot water J r |