The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-02-02
YOU ARE BURNING UI'
a 1UMAN BEING LITERALLY LIVES ~
BEING CONSUMED ALIVE.

Energy a7d Heat Combined Help Sc
iiurn Away thc Bpdily Tissue, and
Fresh Material Il Constantly Ic-
I ing Supplied by Nature.
F"You OF course hclicvc. with tag vest
o. the world. tMt every acvcl years
nature. up to certain age. aur-
pics you with practically new body;
That every seven years, when you have
WASTED by ordinary natural processes
the muscles. Tissues and ibers of your
Body, you have given to you quite
licW oU,nt t. enable you TO carry on
l.tc barring accident and disease, Cor
The next seven years.
Il There Is not minute atom of vow
toGy from the crown OF your head 90
hhc sole OF your foot but what Is pra.-
ideally undergoing % process of buu.nr
DIoh night and day" said thc ocl.lat
81 lecturer on anatomy. Professor -
loau. while you are lookiug at mg
liow I ann hn.ug h2'9,l 10 ashes" con-
tmurd thc professor
"Naiuro is never stationary or lulr
1.-Two. The body spends its energy iu
tac way of physical labor and i'm the
constant ennis ION OF heat. the fo"mer
Dae'N11 comprising waste that cccuf-
Through muscular work cutailod by ior
distance, moving the body on it c,r
walking. speaking. shouting singing
breathing and In the action Of the hc0ri
land by mental activity, though each ef
fort he slight.
we expcud heat by respiration and
perspiration. Motion is energy, and
energy motion. Now. the daily aver
agc income Of energy as created by the
human body on ordinary diet is cal
culated at about > 200 pounds avordu-
pois. That quantity of energy repre-.
sents our daily storage in the ordinary.
active, healthy body.
"How is this 1900 pounds of energy
spent by each human body? II will
surprise you, perhaps to be told that
all our muscular work done I'm "a day
Rpnly requires about 31j pounds Of this
i2,2O0 pounds and that the remainder
ibccomes, as it were, cvaporatcd ana is
being constantly thrown off by th.
body in the way Of heat.
1--WE literally live by being burnl
alive. Energy and heat combined hC.'
I 20 burn our tissue, and fresh is bcil
1 supplied by nature, just as new
building is built ON the site of one
which has been burned down.
I, You have heard Of the man who
gets warmed to his work and that
hhcing warmed everything goes on
satisfactorily, like house or fire.
That is literally what happens 10 every
human creature, for his house is al
ways on fire, though the real meaning
of the descriptive phrase is not always
rightly understood by those who utter
it. The phrase getting up steam so
often used in jocular sense is another
truth but little understood. Our body
is never done getting up steam, and
this steam is our propeling power, by
which we are able to get about our
work and 10y which the brain is able
to keep up its rush Of ideas. Let ma
turc stop getting up steam and we
have nervous collapse.
with plenty of steam we can fire
| away; without it we run down. There
is nothing TO keep our body warm
I nothing TO warm our food, nothing 10
warm and render moist the air we In.
spire and there is nothing to provide
/ for the radiation ana evaporation Of
different moSturcs from the skin.
7 Brain workers give off greater
amount Of heat than physical workers;
/ hence they are more liable to collapse.
4 Their expenditure exceeds income, and
the result is bankruptcy. They are
obliged 10 lie up till they can obtain
I more capital--in other words they have
I been consumed by the fire of the body
at quicker rate than it takes nature
to supply a quantity Of fresh tissue
ana muscle.
"'The ages Of twenty-one. twenty
/ eight, thirty-fve and forty-two are the
most critical periods of a persons life
/ time, for at about these ages nature
will have fitted the body out with new
raw materials
"a child Of seven has different hair
and eyes from those which it had when
it was born. There's the proof."-New
York News.