White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-08-26

flows onward evenly all the time
through the hair tubes into the veins
and back again to the heart on its
never-ending round. The veins are soft
and have thin walls, but they have
fine valves to help the blood not to
rush back into the hair tubes.
Sometimes those valves give out.
They are not very strong, and they
have a heavy weight on them If they
happen to be in the legs Of fat per-
son. Then what happens is this; The
blood does run back, and leaks out
everywhere, and the legs swell up and
turn blue and hurt, and the poor man
cannot get his boots on.
where is your heart? Can you feel
it?'' ~
Surely"
what is it doingT i
"Thumping."
GLOW many thumps to the minute?
Here is my watch. Count them. Sew
enty7 ~
snow lift this chair up five times.
Now count again. How many thumps
now? Eighty? Right. Every bit Of
work, you see, gives our hearts more
to do. If you listen carefully you can
hear that the pump rests for frac-
ton Of second after every two beats.
That's all the rest It ever takes-less
than ten minutes in twenty -four hours.
Like every other pump, we shall have
to grease it; otherwise 1t will get hot
and jam, like the engine.
eve will hang it in AN oil-bag. That
will help also to keep 1t In it's place.
The bag is slung by fine ties inside the
box made by the ribs. Inside the bag
there is beautiful soft, moist lining,
very thin, and covered with the same
cells which prevent blood clotting in
the pipes. The cells lining the oil-bag
must, of course, manufacture their own
oil. / wish the lining Of our gasoline
tank would do likewise.
EVERY dog has to have a name to
tell 1t from other dogs, and all these
parts of the body have Latin names or
Greek Ones They are very easy If you
know Latin and Greek. But we do not
really need them.
"The big pipes which are elastic re-
main open and are full Of air after the
body is dead, because, Of COURSE, the
.elastie~has squeezed all the blood out
of them But that made doctors think
that they always carried air, and so
they called them ARTERIES and we
still call them by the old name; just
as the first bulb Of the heart is called
the auricte (Which just means ear),
and the second bulb is called the ven
tric1e (Which only means belly). Thus
the pipe to the lungs is called the lung
pipe or pulmonary artery; and the
pipe that carries blood to the whole
body is called the aorta, or carrier.
"For the hearts guidance local
offices exist, both in and on its walls.
Some messages come direct by special
wires all the way from the central
Office in the brain. These long wires
are called the Wanderers (VagD. Isn't
It odd, these only bring messages to
saw. 60 slow, brother exactly like
the slang phrase keep your shirt on
or keep cool? All the messages to
speed up or hustle come from Of
Aces close to the heart, and connected
directly with the big wires in the
spine, right alongside the. heart.
1.-THE hair tubes are so fine that 1t
takes two to three thousand, side by
side, to measure one inch. AS people
get old the arteries get very chalky
and break easily. When an old person
has stroke 1t is because an artery
| has broken inside the head office In
the brain, and the managers are
drowned. Just so the body dies event.
ually. But If we are careful not to
overeat, and If we avoid toxins or
poisons like alcohol, there,is no rea-
son that the pipes should not last
| hundred years easily"