Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-21

honey of Hybla or the nectar Of Hymet-
tus, but eight ounces Of sugar is all that
finds a place in her tissues Twelve diff
ferent elements go to make up her frame
work of bone, her tissue and the various
circulatory fluids. Only twelve out Of the
hundred odd basic chemicals that have
been isolated in the laboratories. Water,
fat, iron, sugar, salt, lime, phosphorus,
magnesium, sodium, potassium sulphur
and albuminolds are the things that make
up the tale of the human body She
weighs 120 pounds and of that total weight
about ninety pounds is water
Water has no stable commercial values.
Ut is not listed on the pages of the mar
ket reports, Cities, government irrigation
plants and halfway houses in the desert
are the only folk who make a practice OF
selling the universal solvent 1t has to be
left out of any estimate of value that is
placed on the constituent elements that all
together form beautiful 120-pound woman.
With the fat, that gives the rounded out
line to the limbs and that pleasing curv-
allure to the lines OF the figure. it is a
different matter. Fat has a place on the
market page 1t is not extremely valuable,
Across the counter In the grocery shops
you can buy about as good quality as
exists and the eleven pounds that is allotted
q 19V-pOuIlu BlEl - WOIln just elFVos A<fNAu
is about the nearest thing in commercial
lines to the fat of the human animal and
It sells at the above price.
Regarding Her Sweetness.
Enough iron has been found in the
ashes of a burned body to make heavy
ring. 1t is present in the blood and tissue
in the form of a solution and there is rarely
over two OUNCES of 1t in the human frame.
Fifty cents for a hundredweight, is not a
bad price for iron and the value OF the
metal that is found in the tissues is almost
too small TO be counted. The first poets
who sang the praises of his charmer and
carved his verses on soft sandstone with
a piece of flint undoubtedly made mention
Of her sweetness. They have all been
singing just such songs down the ages.
All the saccharine singers have honored
that allurng quality In much the same
manner. The words were slightly differ
emit but the meaning was the same. They
have all been "sweethearts," and yet eight
little ounces of sugar, bare half-pound
by avoirdupois weight, is all the absolute
and real sweetness that Is compassed In the
being of one 12O-pound m iden all the poets
from Chaucer to Charles .Algernon Swine
burne Notwithstanding. That little half
pound of saccharine lure has been respon-
sible for more marriages, loving and love-
less, than all the moons that ever swung
in the dusk and purpled in the heavens.
BY some evil process Of chemical reaction
It sometimes becomes vinegar Of the most
acdulous sort and then II Is well-nlgh
worthless. That eight ounces Of sugar can
be bought In ST. Louis or elsewhere at the
present time for about cents.
over on the gold coast Of Africa salt Is
worth something A handful Of salt In the
picturesque slave trading days was worth
a couple OF well built and healthy slaves
That handful OF salt I'm the human body Is
not so valuable any more. II Is sold by
the barrel, the sack and the lump, and az
Il is the oommonest OF all the elements II
seems as though there ought 10 be more
of II In the human tissues than there is
That seven ounces Of salt would not b.