The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-08-27
THIS IS MAN.
He is Made Up Of COMPOUNDS Of
Az Varieties

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You are 1c9 dozen eggs
You are four tenpenHy nails.
You are 1854 cu9ic feet OF gas.
You are Is candles and cake OF
soap
You are the heads Of enough ma
ches 10 fill s.oG4 boxes
You are the contents OF hydro
gen balloon big enough 20 lift YOU
above the clouds
Furthermore, YOU are six teaspoon
tuls Of salt. bow o. sugar and 80
gallons Of water
And perhaps you are Er.pr!s cd anu
incredulous. But The chemists as
sure Us that the human .ocy CON
,ains the ingredients specified in the
list sayG thl CHICAGO Tribune The
figures are pfedieated on a body
weighing 80 pounds So, in point OF
arthmethal fact you may be more
than los dozen eggs and the rest
Of it
This analysis Of tie chemist ex-
plains a number Of human phenoni-
ena. Take the eggs. for instance.
When rhe fact is one firmly grasped
that every individual is 100 dozen
eggs. more or less, IL is not difficult
70 understand why some 81 them are
80 easily broken up and disastTously
affected when they are beaten and
why others develop a yellow streak
and turn out bad. Everyone has
heard OF persons who were added
Or hard-shelled, Perhaps some sub
tie explanation Of badness may be
implied in the fundamental truth
about eggs.
1t is not hard to detect the person
two shreWdly poin IA Will usually
tap his tank and induce TOW which
can be shut OF only with lie great
est difficulty. In csrfain ciream-
stance Incidental 10 democracy
the flow IS spontaneous and yoinnt r.
The chemists do not specify In their
popular report what kind OF gas il
Is, but the assumption is safe that
II is not Of the Illuminating sort.
UNDOUBTEDLY the supply runs much
higher than the stated amount in
given cases.
Everybody knows the man who is
sharp as tacks, and the other ore
with en- iron constitution or steely
eye: or the person OF penetration;
or the one who can hold down d
job. or has 10 be driven before he
will accomplish anything. Every
one gets little rusty now and then
Perhaps when a man is said TO be
crooked the meaning is that his ten
penny nails have been trying to do
the work Of sixpenny nails.
We know now what happens when
a man gets all lit up" Its his 75
candles that furnish the illumina-
tion. And We know why some per-
sons are more brilliant than others.
It is because their candles are in
better commission And we can
comnrehend more clearly than ever
why others are touchy and fare up
under friction. II is caused by the
many thousands of match heads IN
them. It may be either the can
dies or the match heads that make
them splinter
We all 90 up in the air once in
while Ii is no longer cause for an
xiety. II is nothing but the hydro
gen We LOutd4u W AAEAi AAAI 80 ~
gen gets beyond control we live IN
the clouds state Of existence
more unsatisfactory to those remain
ing on the ground than to those
aloft. When the match heads are
too necessarily agitated or the can
dies lighted up too frequently, there
is danger that the hydrogen Will be
set off, in which case one goes all
70 pieces.
There are some who VIII believe
that the estimate of sugar Is too low,
but that is personal matter tnat
may be adjusted to mutual sstis-
faction by those concerned.
Undoubtedly explanation Of many
more human phenomena may be de-
rived from the facts supplied by the
chemists. These are submitted mer-
ely as suggestions, TO stimulate
thoughtful ruminatlcn.