Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-28

experiment of what n child may eat
without Inconvenience. reported that
her baby during one day swallowed
one button, "a piece uf rug taste from
the paint brush, and. She believed. IL
small bullet
CURIOUS lNsTlNCTS.
Suggestive OF the law Of Eat or he
eaten" Is the rhllds instructive fears
OF an open mouth with u grinuing row
of teeth. or OF widely straiuing eyes.
IL points to a time when our ancestors
had to face ugly hrutcs IN the forest
and battle for their lives. The Chid's
instructive fear Of the touch of fur
points to similar origin Even our
smile, which IL now so spiritualiZed.
and responds mainly to emotions OF
beauty first began with a tendency To
open the mouth preparatory TO swal-
lowing AN unusually tempting morscl
COOKING AS RELATES TO WORK
While the primal purpose OF food
the purpose illustrated by the Onima'
crcatlon-is to prolpug lifo, man has
added another the desire to work
and ACCOMPLISH results that he can
leave behind him. This leads to the
question how can he "couomlzc the
energy needed for digestion, so MS to
have more FOR muscular activity.
Such a need led TO cooking our food.
and IRE became therefore not only
the emblem OF the home. but It may
be named as one OF the primal forces
of civilization.
Cooking conscrves energy; the better
the cooking. tn" more Is energy
conserved. II Is mnintanedbY some
chemists that processes may In the
future he ~ perfected that we
shan he able To pour
out of n flask into the iuGulHr vein the
elixir of life, as II now enters the heart
from the digestive organs.and thus do
away with about thirty feet Of mites.
final canal. | am gratihcd that
shall not live to see that day; l prefer
too well the idle pleasures of the palate
to flask and stup-cocS.
DEVELOPMENT OF DIGESTION
Originally all digestion was by the
skin; then by the skin infoldcd so as
to make of the animal an elongated
tube with apertures at each end for
the reception of food. Then the ne
cessity of choosing between foods. led
to one orihce being specialized for in
egress. the other for eCress. The
quest for foods led TO the sense Of
touch, and from touch, By future
specialization grew Eht,hearing taste
and smell. Appetite may be called the
physical conscience, and taste Its pre-
cusor. Smell is but spiritualized
form of taste,as when we say anything
tastes like bedbug;" we mean as a
bedbIg smells.
From so primitive II condition has
animal life risen to the completely Of
our organs, the most marvellous
mechanism known to man. The heart
alone lifts daily 227 600 pounds. No 9TH
er mechanical contrivance can com
pare with 1t for amount of work,su
perhaps the muscle which holds up the
upper eyelid.
DEATH AND DISEASE.
fnrp,a f,f Iaath aud Hiapnga nj
starvation. Whenever,fOr any reason,
| the blood cannot reach any cell, 1t
| dies of starvation. We call II disease
| when life can 20 on In spite of 1t
death-when 1t touches II vital organ.
| Digestion and life therefore are relat-
ed, II not as cause and effect, yet as
cOncommitants.
But there is higher form OF diges-
| ton not yet spoken of. II goes on in
! the lungs and the product Is oxygen,
| Lung digestion In at the basis of all
| higher mental work; and other things
| equal, the mind varies in power and
clearness according to the quality OF
| air furnished the lungs.
SOME CONCLUSIONS.
| II may be well now from this frag-
| mentary exposition to draw attention
to some specific phases that affect
| education:
| /. The muscles are digestive or
| gans. II is not possible to live com
| plete healthful life and neglect this
fact. Young ladies should bear 1t in
| mind when they pause to take n street
| car to their homes only two or three
| blocks away. The muscles Will not do
| their part Of digestion unless they be
| exercised. The science of biology
emphasizes, therefore, the edict placed
| upon Adam. There ls no complete
life without work of both hand and
| brain,
.. The brain Is digestive organ.
II consumes relatively more blood and
better blood than any other organ of