The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-04-06
Ladies Department.
Ro,ldily q.

Life is a slow fire, and bodily heat
is the sign Of the burning. It's
sources are mainly found within the
body itself in the chemical changes
which are constantly going on. II
YOU burn piece of bread in the fre.
You will get carboDic acid, water,
ammonia and heat and if you eau it.
the result is the same. Food then
is fuel. But another set Of heatgiv :
ing chemical changes has its seat in
the wasting of the tissues, involved
in every thought, ia each movement,
and in all the vital processes. Hot
foods and drinks and heated atmos-
pheres are artificial additions to cur
own heat.
We lose some heat in the excre.
tions, thus, for example, in breath
ing, the air during its sojourn in the
lungs is warmed, as we know iamil-
iaFly frem blowing upon our cold
hands in winter. Then some more
10 lost in raising any cold food or
drink to the temperature OF the stom
ach. Butathe greatest amount is lost
through the skin, and this is partly
by radiation, just as kettle with hot
water radiates its heat out into the
air. The subcutaneous layer of fat,
however, which is a bad conductor
of heat. prevents much loss of this
kind; and persons with abundant
fats are therefore more readily kept
warm. A further loss occurs by the
evaporation ofsthe sweat. the heat OF
the IL DIV being used uplin forming
this ntos yapOr, iustas the heat Of a
fire is d "a up in converting water
into steam. This evaporation il
going on always, either quite unrlo-
ticed by ,is, when We perspire in
sensibly," or very vlsibly, when We
perspire "sensibly' as after exer
ton on a h0a-day.
It is one great office of the perspi-
ration to maintain this balance be-
tween the heat produced and that
which is lost. the result heing that
there is asstandafi of bodily temper
ature kept perpetually within par
row limits. A thermometer allowed
tOslie fer ten minutes or so next the
skin in the covered armpit. will
stand at ninety eight and one:hall
Fahrenheit. and the heat registered
remains the same in health through
winter and suInmer, in temperate
ATTITUDES with the air at fifty five e
grees Fahrenheit. in the tropics with
the air at one hundred degrees Fahr
enheit and in Arctic regions with
the air at seventy degrees below
zero, when metal bites the hand With
its intense cold. This regulation Of
our temperature is under the control
of the nervous system acting upon
the blood vessels. Under the infu-
ence OF external cold The small ar.
teries in the skin contract. there is
less blood there and therefore less
activity of the sweat glands with the
pale, dry, goose.skin condition seen
on cold morning. Under the in-
fluence of external heat. ON the othe,
hand the little vessels are widely re
Taxed, there is much more radiation
and great production of swat. the
red, moist, hot skin covered with
sensible perspiration leading to grea:
err evaporation and therefore more
cooling, jvst as in the application Of
a cooling Lotion like eau,de cologne.
The feeling of heat and cold is
partly Influenced by our emotions,
the excitement of anger bring flush
when person IS 'shot and angry
or the creeping pallor of fear and
dread causing a. "cold shiver. Food
and drink also tell upon. the Tempe
ature. both according to, the amount
and according to kind. When we
have to'resist cold weather, nature
pronpts us to eat heartily; and we
speak Familiarity of a 'sfine, cold
hungry day;n whereas. when the
weather is every warm, a much more
moderate, amonnt,of food ssuffices,
and we declare we feel too hot to
eat" When shivering with cold
every one enjoys a warm drink like
q cup of hot tea heat from exer-
else is readily reduced by cold
drink or an ice, the only danger to
avoid being the temptation to take
toe much alta time. which would
produce. q sheck and might be disas.
trous. Alcohol is sielusrve in this
respect as ga warming drink. sIts
stimulating pfoperties afford d feel@
ing Ut waFm'h; but it relaxes the
blood vessels fbfthe skihs and this
means more blood, more radiation,
more peyspiration and corporation. a
rapid loss. Of heat with a speedy
feeling Of chill. The Chdutaaquan
Cheep Food and Wholesome.
When the question of The table