Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-24
SOME WHY'S AND WHEREFoRss.
Facts About Everyday Life That
Everybody Ought to Know.

why do tastes differ so in eating? why
can sick people sometimes feel souhos
Why is IL you could not see the world go
around, no matter how high up IN d
balloon you went? Why is it silver tar
nishes and gold does not? Why do ami
mails in snowy countries have white
coats?
Tastes differ in different people be-
cause. lust as no two people look alike,
so no two persons bodies have the same
identical needs. One person may require
a great deal of fat and may consequently
be capable of digesting 1t, and that per-
son will naturally like fat end oily fooos
which NAV be less good for another
person, and still less good for third,
and so on Again, at different ages peo-
pie have different requirements. Children
are active and lose their heat quicker,
and therefore need a large proportion OF
food to supply them with energy ana
heat, and since perhaps the best OF such
foods is sugar. that may be the feaso'i
children and young people like swee.s so
WELL
The reason sick people can often feel
sounds is simple enough. Sound, AFTER
all, is only a kind of feeling. as smell and
taste and sight are, but 1t Is for the most
mart too deHcate movement of the air
/ for our sense Of touch to feel IL. In some
peopie who are not well the senses be-
come more acute, and cases are on rec
ord where sounds have been felt with
!, the skin. They are not felt as souIios,
but as trembling movements of the air.
| AS for the lowest sounds, they can be
| felt as we'll as heard by ordinary people.
( Take a long, large, heavy tuning fork and
| hit il hard with a drumstick and 1t Will
| yibrate at a slow speed. II your hearing
lis healthy YOU can hear this faint, deep
| note and also feel the waves of air tnat
| they make-that is, feel them by the
| sense of touch just as they can be .elt 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 ~
times as fast az the fastest express train.
But 1t would be quite impossible in BAL
loon which floats In the air, for the air
| is carried around with the earth and the
balloon would be carried around with 1t.
| 1t would be possible, however, in an
airship which could travel as fast In the
| opposite direction as the air travels
with the earth, for as fast as the air and
1 the earth spun one way the ship wouio
1 beat against them. But to do it the air
ship would have to move 10 times as fast
I as the fastest motor car. In fact, 1t has
!, been predicted by scientists that in few
hundred years one of the most popular
! pleasure trips will be that of going up In
| an airship and watching the world &c
/ round"
/ In regard to silver furnishing and gold
4 not, the fact that sulphur abounds IN the
air and works havoc on many articles
I exposed to 1t and susceptible to 1t ac'
4 counts for the furnishing Of silver sill
! yer is easily affected. Wear silver next
to your skin and take sulphur as medi
cine and you will see how black the sill
Ever will become in short time. But nc
! sulphur compound has any action what
1 ever on gold, so that gold is free from
hts tarnish.
I Most OF us have suffered at one tine
I or another from headache in stnny
| room and haven't realized perhaps, It Is
i. 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 un-
able to stop it. and then the blood car
ries II to every part Of the body-orten-