Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-07-18
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SOME WHY'S AND wHEREFoREs
Facts About Everyday Life that Ev-
erybody Ouoht to Know.

erybody Ought to Know.
Why do tastes differ so in eating?
Why can sick people sometimes feel
sounds? Why is 1t you could not see
the world go around, no matter how
high up in a balloon you went? Why
is 1t silver furnishes and gold does
not? Why do animals in snowy coun-
, tries have white coats?
Tastes differ in different people be-
cause Just as no two people look alike,
so no two persons bodies have the
same Identical needs. One person NAV
require a great deal Of fat and may
consequently be capable of digesting
II, and that person will naturally like
fat and oily foods-which may be less
good for another person, and still less
good for a third, and so on. Again, at
different ages people have different re-
quirements Children are active and
lose their heat quicker, and therefore
need large proportion of food to sup
ply them with energy and heat, and
since perhaps the best Of such food Is
sugar, that may be the reason children
and young people like sweets so we'll.
The reason sick people can often
feel sounds is simple enough. Sound,
after all, Is only kind Of feeling, as
smell and taste and sight are, but it is
for the most part too delicate a move-
ment Of the air for our sense Of touch
to feel it. In some people who are not
we'll, the senses become more acute,
and cases are on record where sounds
have been felt with the skin. They
are not felt as sounds, but as trembl-
ing movements Of the air. AS for the
lowest sounds, they can be felt as we'll
as heard by ordinary people. Take
long, large, heavy tuning fork and hit
1t hard with drumstick and 1t will
vibrate at a slow speed. II your hear
ing Is healthy you can hear this faint,
deep note and also feel the waves Of
air that they make-that is, feel them
by the sense of touch just as they can
be felt by the sense Of hearing.
1t would be wonderful sight to be
far up in the air and see the world
spinning around below us at rate
that is twenty times as fast as the
fastest express train. But it would be
quite impossible in a balloon which
floats in the air, for the air Is carried
around with the earth and the balloon
would be carried around with it.
1t would be possible, however, in an
airship which could travel as fast in
the opposite direction as the air trav-
els with the earth, for as fast as the
air and the earth spun one way the
ship would beat against them. But to
do it the airship would have to move
ten times as fast as the fastest motor
car. In fact, 1t has been predicted by
scientists that in a few hundred years
one of the most popular pleasure trips
will be that Of going up in an airship
and watching the world go round"
In regard to silver furnishing and
gold, note the fact that sulphur abounds
in the air and works havoc on many
articles exposed to 1t and susceptible
silver. Silver is easily affected. Wear
silver next to your skin and take sui
phur s a medicine and you will see
how black the silver will become in a
short time But no sulphur compound
has any action whatever on gold, So
that gold Is free from its tarnish.
Most Of us have suffered at one time
or another from a headache in stuff
fy room and haven't realized, perhaps,
1t is due directly to the bad gases
which form in the air and poison our
brain. They pass into the blood from
the lungs quite readily, the lung cells
being utterly unable to stop 1t, and
then the blood carries 1t to every part
of the body -oftentimes to our great
injury. We are generally warned that
something is wrong by a severe head
ache or a marked loss of appetite.
If you were ever up in cold coun-
tries you would be impressed by the
fact almost all of the native animals
wear white coverings. These seem to
have been given them for two reasons.
The main one is the animal is pro-
tected from it's enemies by being made
difficult to be seen. Often in summer,
when the snow is gone. the fur takes
other tints. more like the color of the
ground and the plants among which it
lives. Again it happens an animal
which lives by catching others is also
white in winter snow so it can get
near its prey without being seem
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