Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-07

Just enough to keep the skin soft.
WORKOUT PARTICLES of the body come
through he various tubes 70 the surface
in the form Of little scales. If the
scales are allowed TO remain, they close
the tubes. and you become unhealthy.
perhaps have fever. You should battle
often, and so keep open your drain
pipes Use soap. for it takes an alkali
TO dissolve the albumen of the scales.
Are the respiratory tubes like the
others?'
They are more curious; coiled up in
q ball at the bottom Of the cults, they
wind in spiral course up TO the surface
Of the cuticle. Although not more than
oue-eighth OF an inch long when straight
ened out yet if placed end to end, the
number on a grown man would measure
several miles"
We'll, think they are very unpleas-
ant things 10 have on hot day"
That is the time you most need
them; they lower your temperature, .
Not much, Aunt Mary"
More than you think. You haye
not tried living without them They
throw of some heat all the time. When
fever patient begins to perspire his
fever lessons. In health an invisible
vapor constantly escapes from these
tubes. Hold your hand near q cold
glass; the vapor will be condensed in
slight moisture on the glass. When ex-
ercise throws il off rapidly you see it
and call it perspiration. A labor
ing man may throw off two pounds in
twenty-four hours. A physician once
desired to know how much he per-
spired, and daily for thirty years
weighed himself, his food, etc, and
finally estimated that five out of eight
pounds OF his food and drink passed off
through his skin. You have read of
the child who was girdled all over to
represent Cupid in a procession, and
who died in a few hours; what caused
its death?"
The tubes were filed. suppose, so
they could not act. Aunt Mary, what
makes the difference in the color Of
skin?"
THE coloring is found in cells of the
lower side of the cuticle; black in the
negro, white in the Caucasian. Albinos
have no coloring matter in the cells"
Cant we find any medicine or food
to change the color? I'd take any
thing to have complexion like Alice. !"
I'VE know of nothing to change the
color. But keep all those tubes open so
that the drainage is in good order; take
long breaths Of pure air to enlarge your
lungs enough to keep your blood pure,
and you are sure of a healthy COM
plexion, which is better than fair one.
This skin of yours is more important
than you think, since il covers not only
the outside, but lines the inside of your
body, where it is called mucous mem
brane, and does its part in absorbing, as
we'll as throwing out secretions to aid
digestion.
Remember one thing. Exercise
opens these tubes so that the perspira-
tion and other secretions begin to flow
out abundantly. Now if you cool off
suddenly, the tnbes contract, throwing
back all the secretions they had brought
to the surface, and making you ache all
over; your throat is sore; your nose,
bronchial tubes and lungs all filed up
you say you have fearful cold. All
the trouble came because your
drains were closed. Skin is not deep,
but if you want health and happiness,
take good care OF it. And your friend
Alice may remember that things, not
very deep may have much good in them
if rightly used. ''-Watchman.