The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-14
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ALL ABOUT TISSUES
Miss Kissam's Lecture Be-
fore the Members of the
Girls FortnightlY
Club.
NEWS FOR FATTY INDIVIDUALS
Longfellow Night at the Club
other Interesting Lectures
to Be Given.

AT a recent meeting of the Girls Fort
nightly Club In the Woman's Club
House. Miss Laura Mead Nissan deliv-
cred a lecture on the connective tissues.
She had several charts of the body hung
upon the wall. and Illustrated her lee
ture with them. She said:-"On examine
ing an animal body among the first
things one notices are the size and
shape. Next the color. and then one
notices, especially on cutting the body,
that it is made of different materials.
There is a different substance in the
body for every quality and every power
that it possesses. These different sub
stances are called tissues. There are two
grand divisions. connective tissues ana
epithelial tissues The connective tissues
are those that form the framework or
the body and those concerned in loco
motion. They are:-1, bone; 2. cartilage:
8. fbrous tissues: 4. fat or adipose us
sues; 8, muscle; 6. blood vessels.
Tissues are composed OF cells or
cerpuscles. and the life history of these
cells is that of the body. Each cell Is
q minute drop of protoplasm or animal
substance that has the property of life
Each cell has a central dark spot called
the nucleus. The cells are embedded in
a blue substance traversed nv small
canals. and is called the basis SUBJ
stance."
THE FIBROUS TISSUES.
Miss Nissan described the nourish-
ment of the tissues by the blood and
also the circulation. She continued
ION examining ibrous tissues you will
see the red cells with their dark nuclei
embedded in their blue basis substance.
The basis substance in this case is COM
| posed of bundles of fine fbres that are
woven and matted together to form a
tough but flexible tissue. Red blood
corpusles can be traced through the
blue fibrous bundles to the right side
where several capillaries unite to form
a small vein. Between the fibre bundles
you will see slit-like open spaces. These
are the lymph channels. The plasm
leaks out of the capillaries into these
Of bone. The cells sIs' lie or ut the IS su race
OF the bundles with one side projecting
into the lymph space so that they can
absorb, freely, from the lymph as it
their waste products.
"Ffbrous tissue is found in all parts
0l shf O1 to fast te IS bo nsea t as T Slndin 1g
form a joint, as a lining to large cav
ties. and as a framework or trestle ON
ported as they run to and from a part.
USES OF FAT.
"Fat tissue is a delicate tibrous tissue
IN when there are many nnrous tlssps
drops of oil. The black rings are the oil
drops contained beneath the distended
S seli u mds maanef ba IT tt is S'G Rnosn IS that has
these cells give up their fat during
emaciation or starving. Each fat ceii
t Fat ee Som ma " disappear ehs pl5, ra While no oahers re- el
main as simple small round cells. When
the animal ~fattens these cells became
a agga s dlssepde wb wi5h a Gsa, many abgor new o dnt
This rebuilding of fat tissue, as well as
its Destruction. may take place very
s sfIdetIon Eat Of tbs tissq 6od Is a as a IN pad al s0n to
| round out corners and angles that are
formed by the bony skeleton. It also
se toaabo, sne w Jss fat Is laid M for
future use.
I'm eartiIage one sees a structure that
i neaem appea nsne: IN that the cells are
large and plump and arranged in groups
of two, three or four, Cartilage Is one
vessels do not penetrate It's substance
as they do in the case of bone and fb-
rous tissues. Blood vessels run on the
surface and the plasm IS distributed to
the cartilage cells entirely by means of
WHAT MAKES MUSCLE;
1.-THE next tissue is muscle. IT Is COM
posed of cells. but the cells are OF Pc
culiar shape. They. are long and slen-
der and appropriately called 5bres,
| and they correspond to. the two kinds OF
muscle found in the body. There are the
| muscles which are under the
control Of the will and the involuntary
muscles not under the control OF the
| Will. On account of their structure. vol,
untary muscles are often called strlated
or striped muscle. The muscle cells are
surrounded and held in place by a dell
cate framework of fbrous. tissue through
which run the plasma and lymph. Mus
Gle has no basis substance. and has no
| The more iowly organized fbrous TISSUE
| serves as It's basis substance. and the
muscle cells devote their entire atten-
| ton to the work of contracting and re-
Taxing. .,,
| different functions to perform. One
group does the digestion, another group
the thinking. another supplies the bony
| structure and still another ATTENDS 10 10
comotion. This setting aside of certain
| cells to do individual work is called the
d~iferentiation Of Rrotopia;sma n a apd tissues IS Is
| Of which the body is composed. 1t is
iImportant that We should keep our
blood plasm in good condition"
Miss Nissan will probably give an
| other lecture to the Girls Fortnightly
| club on Thursday evening of next week
Last night the special meeting was for
cited Something of Longfellow,s works,
and many interesting anecdotes were
fold Of him. The leader of the club is
| Miss Martin Of York street.