White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
EFT us suppose today that we
are travelling along after our
= old friend, the banana, while


the machinery is working.
Suppose that we have just heard
open sesame have dashed through
the guards at the gate, and have heard
the lock snap behind us. We now find
ourselves in marvellous place. 1t
looks like the subway, though 1t Is
really only about 20 feet long, and
ends in another closely guarded gate.
1t is lined, just like the rooms in the
heating department, with endless
fringes, and 1t has all along 1t things
that look like hurdles, or obstacles
in race. They really are put there
to prevent our friend, the banana, and
all other building material from
hustling along so quickly that the
workmen in the various departments
along the sides of the tube cannot get
enough time to get in their work on it
as 1t passes. Also, of course, the sur
face being wavy like the inside of the
great deal more frontage on the main
street, and so there can be many more
shops which will have their front
doors on the road. There is as much
as 16 square feet of surface.
"Just at first our tube Is pretty
level, but there are very sharp turns
in 1t, In fact, the whole tube has to
be rolled up in circles, like the road
on the mountainside otherwise you
could not get it into the space. (See
picture.) 1t is beautifully arranged
and supported, being held to the per-
pendicular spine by. stout stretches of
elastic ties; and also all around 1t,
everywhere on the outside, is a beau
tifully oiled membrane, so that how
ever much the spine Jumps about,
nothing gets hurt inside the tube.
"Big blood vessels run down along
the ties and end in little hair canals
wound around tens Of thousands of
little pyramids, and as these are all
over the hurdles everywhere, they are
in millions. In the pyramids are the
shipping canals, and the material is
being passed through into them, and
swept away to the place where it is
wanted. All the fats that we use, as
told you before, go directly by pri-
vate canals up into the great big
veins near the heart, and so straight
into the blood. If we eat too much
fat the surplus is stored up, mostly
on the front of the belly, and we have
to drag 1t around everywhere.
"All along the tube by which we are
travelling and which, by the way, peo-
pie call the small intestine we shall
notice millions Of little factories. They
look like little holes. The little doors
open everywhere-some single ones
some in groups. Out of them comes
kind Of juice. They supply drink
mostly, but the drink has very impor
tant things in 1t, one Of which acts
like the wood ash that the women In
Labrador get by burning wood, and
which they use to boil up with seal
oil or any old fat to make soap. Az
matter Of fact, that Is exactly one
thing that these little factories (ol
glands, as some people call them) do
They help make the fats into soap
OF course, you cannot actually boil
anything inside the inlestines, SO they
have to make clever chemical stuff
which makes soap in the cool. AL
these marvellous chemicals have Ions
names and / am afraid you will never
remember them, so we will not bother
with them now.
"You know how easily soap sinks
into things. That Is why 1t Is 80 goot
for washing the dirt off your hands
Now big fat cells cannot go through
living membranes, SO all the fat yot
eat has to be made into soap before
1t can get through the walls into the
canals. But, most wonderful of all
after it gets through the walls 1t is ne