Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-10-21
Royal makes the food pure,
wholesome and delicious.

ROYAL co.. YORK.
blast energy into elastic steam, and
that steam gives over a part-a small
part-of its energy so gotten to the
piston Of the engine, and thence it
is transmitted through crank and
wheel, and belt, and shafting, to the
various and scattered points of its
final application. The waste be
tween the energy locked in the coal
and that to-day made available in the
product, is enormous, and at some
future time will, perhaps, beregarded
as wickedly prodigal
''In the body the burning, OF
energy production, is more nearly at
the point of power expenditure, and
the process of transformation is so
highly effective that in the human OF
animal machine a pound of fuel In
food will produce much more effec
tive energy than a pound OF coal
burned under steam boiler.
"There are three requisites to the
obtaining of the best result from a
boiler fire, the first in the order of
Importance being a good drought;
the second, good stoking: and the
not burn without an adequate draft.
The best stoking will not make a
good fire, with the best of coal, with
out draft. With a strong draft, coal
viii burn with poor stoking Inferior
coal, with q strong draft and good
stoking, may make hot fire. OF
first Importance, then, to fire is air;
second, stoking; third, fuel quan-
tity.
"Tle same is true Of the body's
fire The prerequisites to the most
vigorous vitality are: First, abund-
ance of pure air; second, proper and
sufficient exercise; third, the best of
food. In this case the air is the
physical furnaces draft; the exercise
is the stoking; the food is the fuel
And here, also, we find the same
order of sequence: first In import
ance being air in adequate quantity
and purity; second. exercise; and
third, food quality
"Coarse and ill-adapted food, with
an abundance of pure air and exer-
else, produce finer specimens of
physical vigor than the best of food,
with impoverished air for breathing,
and without exercise. Compare the
robust vitality of coarsely-fed and
even poorly-fed out-of-door laborer
with that of the most pampered in
| diet, breathers Of the confined air of
luxurious apartments, occasional
dainty exercisers in softly cushioned
carriages, and our point is strongly
illustrated.
Without further argument, it
must be conceded that that to which
is generally given least Importance
in our thoughts, as compared with
| the thought given to food and recre-
alton, is really of the greatest i'm
portance to our best vitality We
think more of our eating than of our
breathing, and more Of the loss of a
half-day's recreation than of whole
weeks deprivation of pure air Mu-
inequalities will spend money by the
million for park ways for the occa-
sional outings of their citizens, and
on spread-out beauty which gratifes
their pride, the meanwhile condemn
ing as wanton waste the spending OF
q quarter of such sums on the SAM
tation Of school houses in which the
city's educators and children are
breathing for thirty hours of every
school week.
"We, some of us, need revolu-
tionizing of ideas as to what ou1
physical life is: first of all, chem
ical product, to which air is an es-
sential element, and for the com
pleteness of which air MUST be had
in freshness and abundance"
i It will interest you, l am sure, to
know the actual physical facts OF
which this apt simile is based. In
brief they are as follows: Atmos
pheric air is composed of oxygen
2O9.6 parts per 1000 volumes; nitro
gen, 100; carbonic acid, O.4; and very
minute quantities of ammonia, or
ganic matter, ozone, common salt, anC
other mineral substances. Of these
various elements, the essential one is
oxygen. The vital changes which
take place in the tissues of the body
are largely oxidations. The chemica
union of oxygen with their constitu
ent elements and the formation there
by of new products-more notably
carbonic acid-just as the oxidation
| of carbon in shell, makes lime an6
/ eliminates in the process carboni'
acid. Now how is the oxygen of the
! air carried to the tissues? By thu
red corpuscles of the blood, whicl
/ exist in enormous quantities, it be
} ing estimated that in a man weigh
I ing lao pounds there are 100000 o