White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
! FOOD TRANELS.

longer soap. If 1t stayed soap of
course 1t would get back through the
thin wall again. But hidden right in
the wall itself turks ferment which
makes the soap back into fat just as
1t is getting out into the canal.
II didn't tell you that in the first
part of our tube there are Offices espe-
cially for sending messages, like a
secret police. Directly the big gates
open and some supplies come along,
messengers are at once posted into
the blood pipes near by, and are hur
ried off to warn the drug shops and
factories for chemicals.
'There is rest period, as you
know, between meals. But this bile
work Is drainage system, and SO
must go on all the time. The result
is that it must have tank somewhere
to collect in. just like the drainage
tank in the garden. This is called the
gall bladder. Unfortunately, some
times the bile dries into little stones,
and these get blocked into the pipe,
and won't let the bile out, and then
the whole body turns yellow. This
| trouble is called jaundice. The red
corpuscles cannot rest up to die. or
choose exactly where to die. Like us,
most have to go on working, while
others are dying and being buried all
the time. The liver is their main
cemetery. The spleen, which looks
like a small liver, Is fastened near
the stomach. Is an overflow cemetery,
as well as factory for baby Reds.
Here ends one life and here begins
another. The liver Is really huge
warehouse and an exchange store for
everything, especially sugar, and cleo
tricity, and red corpuscles.
Now to go back to our tube. It Is
surrounded like all the rest with
muscle cells arranged in layers around
it, and also in long battalions all
along 1t. They go on contracting.
wave after wave, and driving the food
material over the obstacles and be-
tween the pyramids, until at last what
has not leaked into the lymph canals
and blood pipes comes to the gate at
the other end. They do 1t without
our telling them, or even knowing
about it. They work while we Sleep
"There Is one thing want to tell
you which is very interesting and i'm
portant. If you eat too much meat or
proteids you cannot store them up on
the outside like you can fats. Storing
up fat is bad enough, but it is much
worse If you send too much meat
along. It gets changed into real
poisons, which make you feel heavy
and give you headaches, and poison
even the canal walls themselves, and
so make them brittle, and they break
Snow we have come to the gate at
the other end Of this. small intestine.
It is called valve, and 1t Is a very
large one. Once through that and we
shall find ourselves in a large tube,
about eight feet long. The valve is
an odd one. 1t Is like this. What
ever goes through it can never get
back. "Where Is our banana now?
II must say one thing about this
last eight feet, or large intestine.
Even there, nothing Is wasted. or
course 1t is really the cesspool Of the
body. But 1t is mighty useful all the
same. To begin with, 1t Is very use
fully wrapped around all the delicate
parts Of which we have been speak
ing. forming great big cushions which
keep everything nicely and firmly
packed and thoroughly warm in our
bellies. A perfectly healthy per
son should empty the big bowel as
regularly as clockwork, every morning
and every evening. If you do Dot feel
this warning, something is wrong. Go
anyhow, and wait on nature. To stay
constipated is to risk poisons getting
into your system which should be
cast out"
20 by the Bell Syndicate. Ino.)