The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-11-09

You have appri s,1pi ! certain por..s
ton Of II IA the const ruct lion OF your.
neshs and bones. There il n definite.
amount q the elements combined to-
gether which pro- uces n e6ect upon
the ma chine. and that effect Is trans
lated into pound ). You do not know
exactly what = pound Is, but It II
some sort Of an arbitrary measure
|sof the force Of gravita ton, and, after,
reading the figures On the scale, you
know how much there IL of you by
comparison With other objects TINT
have weig IS ana density
When you stand outside Of yourself
there seems to be no reason why
you should have any weight. The
mind, which Il the most important
part Of you, does not appear to have
weight, II . mat fer Y nntirely outside
yourself; you cannot increase. or
diminish it BY any act Of will, though
GONE times In dreams you seem to
have Invested your body Of. the down
ward pull, which you call weight, and
find yourself floating as easily as q
mote in q sunDeam. It may be that
this jig, .. sort of recollection on the
part OF the matter which enters into
our composition Of q time when it
was really not subject to this tugging
called gravitation, and floatea free.
In our present environment, however,
this law of matter has us in full con-
troll and we cannot escape It for the
smallest fraction of second. It ops
crates steadily all the time and we
are obliged always to take it into ac-.
count. HI sy s,s% =, & 55 @ss s< 4
But does the scale actually tell us
how much we weigh? It simply cal
5culates the balance between ] the
forces that are working against each
other the one tending to- drag us
down to the center of the earth and
the other to send us spinning out
into, space. The pull Of gravitation
has the advantage by so many
pounds otherwise we should leave
our happy homes in hurry and
start on o. journey from which VIC
should never return going out into
space to hobnob with comets and as
AOAuS anu OtAcI CcAcslIdl sWduueFefSs
This old earth is a whirler and a
twirler. It has more curves than a
baseball In the hands of an expert
pitcher. You have seen the expert:
ment: of swinging ia pail Of water
over the head without splitting the
water. The earth is giving us the
same sort OF swing. $F 5%s b
8Ss II is as II some giant were sta.
TONED at at the point Ct space where
the center OF the earth is, with : a
strlng upward '"''re* OF 5000 miles in length
a il''. g, e Us, and were swinging US
around at The end OF 1 w. his rate OF
circular lar motion z Ms. is approximately 900
miles es an hour. It is q pretty rapid
swing and the e4 TACT that on account OF
this rapldlty we have considerable
tendency Ten en-. to take g long jump sew
eral tn Thousand '91 sand miles into space must
make considerably dlfrerence IN
the pressure when we step on the
weighing machine. -.
s II the ne; :earth were TO stop its whlrl'
ing some Gay .for a short time we
snouia all suddenly become on E heavy
we'gnts' ana ~ Is a question wnether
the Ordinary weighing machine would
pc adequate 70 measure tne tendency
wn1ch our o t'1Ql would nave TO press
toward the center OF the EARN II IS
pain, tnereiore' tnat we snouio welgh
a good d zeal more II 1t wasn't Tor the
giant swing given us by the planet
upon winch we e' are involuntary ''l resi-