The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-22
JUST A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE.
The Possession OF 1t Does Not Pay Very
Well In The Long Run

at doesn't pay to know Just little
about things" sand one of those men
who are always after general informa-
ton" Judging from experianee
thoroughly agree with the gentleman
who said, a little knowledge is a danger
Gus thing For example, have never
been able TO eat an egg with thorough
relish-thoughe exceedingly fond of them
for their dayor-since | learned that tho
little spot on one side of the yelk, toward
the butt end, is the germ of the chicken.
You may cook an egg in what fashion
you please, but whether it is boiled.
poached or fried. YOU viii find that germ
always conspicuous, when once you
know 1t is there, and you cannot eat the
egg until you have carefully removed it.
1t would add considerably to nv happi-
ness If | could believe today what was
taught III the nursery. that the white of
an egg makes the bones of the subsequent
fowl and the yelk the flesh, instead Of
knowing. as / do, that both are merely
the food by the consumption of which
, the germ Is developed.
"But that is only very minor in
stance. by slight knowledge of patho-
logical anatomy, amounting TO the mer-
est smattering, is a source of continual
distress to me. Though an abstemious
man. on the whole. | cannot indulge in
glass of any alcoholic beverage without
realizing that | am sublecting nv sys-
tenr 10 the action of heart stimulant'
which acceierates the pulsations of that
organ inlurIously. The slightest sensa-
ton of any sort about my chest causes
me to imagine, despite myself that the
tubercular bacilli are beginning to get
in their deadly work upon my pulmona- ,
~ SYSTEM
Presumably it is only trifing inter
cOstal rheumatism, but I ana none the
less uneasy. A similar feeling in ths
small of my back makes me think Of
Brght's disease. Surprising that swal-
low an orange seed Icy accident, it oc-
ours 10 me ut once that there is chance
for its getting into certain useless sac
attached Ia the stomach, where. If it
does. it viii occasion inflammation that
is necessarily fatal before long. I know
that my intestines are "A prey to certain
vermiCulor parasites. as are those If
every one else; but they do not occasion
me 50 much annoyance as the possible.
ty, always existing, that painful concre.
tons Of lime may be forming Ia my
bladder or my liver.
"A superficial knowledge of physiology
takes much OF the poetry out Of exist
ence and removes large part Of tho
gliding from the sublunary gingerbread,
as one might say. Having acquired 1t.
a man realizes rather painfully that hs
is largely an elevated animal after all,
though hitherto ne has imagined himself
chiefly mind.
Surprising that ones partner in the
german j. a thin girl, he cannot help
figuring her out as an artIculated skeie-
ton and setting an estimated price upon
her a. preparation IN that 8aiss. This
does not apply, however, when she 10 an
heiresS-
imagination Is always opposed "a
facts. and by as much as the latter ars
calculated To dlspei agreeable Illusions;
they ars destructive Of happiness. There
fore ain inclined ~ TANK that however
fesirab!s knowledge may be respecting
things with which ore has no personal
and intimate concern. IL IL most com.
70 know very little about one's
elf and one's environment. Drink deem
1r taste not the P4srian sJsrinz. Wash
ngton Star