Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-08-24
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBEnG.
A. b., NJ. A, NJ. d. John Hopkins).

Initiate Your Heart and Take Intervals
of Rest.
There is a reality in poetic inspira-
| tion which science, soon or late,
proves Thus the Prince in Loves
Labor Lost" says: "A heavy heart
bears not a nimble tongue" Phys
iologically this is no more to be de-
MED than it is POLITICALLY. When you
are morose. blue, downhearted and
sad in spirit you are truly heavy of
heart in a real sense. Moreover, the
tongue becomes so weighted that all
ease and pleasure in speech ceases.
In the first book of Samuel the 18th
chapter, you read: "a man after his
own heart This is used by many as
figure of speech, yet 1t is anatom-
ically and physically true. The health,
strength, nature and character of a
man Is In a fashion exhibited by his
pulse and heart beat.
When the lower or pointed part of
the heart squeezes together, and, so
to speak, squirts a fresh quantity of
blood into the arteries. much as a
hollow rubber ball might automatic
ally squeeze out its contents into two
pieces Of thin rubber hose at each
side, the pressure in the blood cham
nels or arteries rises like the mercury
in a thermometer when its bulb is
suddenly thrust into boiling water.
How the Heart Works.
If the veins and other tubes which
conduct life's scarlet fluid were as
stiff and firm as metallic pipes the
rise of pressure from the heart beat
would be carried on the instant to
every nook and Granny of the skin,
toes, legs, glands and other human
structures.
simultaneously an amount would
leave the big veins as they approach
the "auricles" or upper broad part of
the heart, equal to that which was
squirted into the big arteries by the
"ventrcles" or pointed segments Of
the heart.
You are commonly told that the
heart is pump. Rather is it to be
compared with a soft rubber ball,
such as you played with as a child
and filled with water. Indeed this
striking resemblance except as to
shape lis nearly complete, If you think
of the hollow rubber ball as top
shaped and with two holes on the fiat
upper surface. and one on each side
| just a little below these.
Furthermore, through some inher-
ent vital force of the heart tissue
WHICH ID I0uoCuldi III IT'S sly iO7-dul
matte explosions squeeze the auricies
together to squirt the old, blush,
thick blood into the ventricles,
much In the manner that the sup
posed rubber ball would squirt water
from an upstairs part curtained off
from a larger downstairs chamber.
The heart beat. itself, is the con-
traction, or, as 1t 1t is called, "sys-
tole' of the two upper auricles, both
at the same time, followed at once
by a similar double contraction of
| the partitioned off ventricles.
There occurs, then, q distinct
pause. The heart is wholly at rest
| for a. definite interval. This is ma
ture's warming that even so perfect
and quickly recuperative a muscular
periods of poise. calm and rest.
why Veins Are Soft.
| Carpenters, telegraphers, typists
drummers, and all others who com.
plain that after they work a while
| their hands and fingers become stiff
and useless should take heed of the
hearts rest. profit thereby, and fol-
low the example. A pause even long.
er than the time used in work will
ward off writer's cramp. piano play
er's palsy and all such analogous
ailments.
The heart, beat is initiated spon-
| taneously by an electric spark, as II
were That is to say, the muscle
tissue at the edges OF the big veins
which fuse into the auricle or up