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THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1927.
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and YOUR BODY
THE PUMP AND PIPES
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"B1
UT father, how does the
lymph get back?" "Every
time you move a muscle or
breathe, you squeeze It out
of the spaces which end In openings
Into special little vessels. Valves keeji
It from ever getting back. So on and
on it has to go Into a large pipe, which
empties at last Into the blood through
a big vein In the neck near the heart.
It Is pushed on also a little by the
heart, and sucked on by the current
In the vein. Moreover, It Is helped
along by the fact that it Is different
In composition from the other fluids,
and so passes out Into any fluid next
to It This process Is called diffusion."
"But, father, what makes the blood
go round to all the cells?"
"1 don't wonder you ask. That Is a
real Job, Isn't It? For, you see, the
cells cannot live as we can, on meals
three times a day. They must get air
and food brought to them day and
night and all the time. So long as they
get that, they do not care where they
are, and they will therefore grow out
side the body just as well as Inside,
!f you also keep them warm. Then
you must remember what an awful
lot of pipes we must have to reach all
the cells, and what an awful heap of
pumping we shall have to make our
pump do. Moreover, ours are far the.
most wonderful pipes In the world.
They grow bigger or smaller Just as
they are told.
"There Is a trap In the pipe. What
makes the trap shut? Why, because it
Is a valve or trap which opens only
one way, and the rubber, springing up
again, sucks or pulls up the lid, and
when you squeeze down, the lid closes
again, kerplunk! It is exactly like the
trap-door of our attic; and don't you
remember the one we made to pump
oat onr boat, with n wooden flap, n
leather hlne, and a heavy oont of lend
fixed on the trap-door to shut it down.
Toesn't that work well?"
"Splendidly., . .. j
' "Weli, the heart has' Invented far
better valves for itself, und it has I
built two bulbs to make it throw
stronger than it. could with one, and to
give a more even flowing current; not
one that jtrlcs.
; "We'll take the best pump In the
world a good heart. So we have two
two-cylinder engines, as you see in the
picture. One set pumps the Impure
blood into the lung, and the other
pumps the pure blood Into the body.
This pure blood carries the food and
air. The pumps lie side by side and
are Joined together, making a shape
something like the ace of hearts.
They throw twenty tumblerfuls In a
minute, and all the blood In the body
In one and one-half minutes. But If
you run a race or climb a high moun
tain all the blood In your body may
pass through In one minute. The first
pipes are large and are called arterlca,
or 'air thoroughfares.' They get small
er, and smaller, and smaller, like AHc
In Wonderland, till they are mere hair
tubes, or capillaries, and then these
Join together and get bigger and bigger
again, till they are pipes called veins.
"The arteries are strong and thick
and very elastic. Can you gness why?"
"Because the heart pumps hard rigbc
Into them?"
Tea, that Is part of the reason. But
there Is another, and a very clever
reason. Tou know those squeaker toys
with elastic bags that yon blow up,
don't you? What makes them go on
squeaking so long?"
"Oh, the elastic bag squeezes the
air out slowly through .the pipe."
"Exactly so. That Is why the ar
teries are so elastic; because In be
tween the strokes of the pump, they
are squeezing out through the pipes
the blood which was forced Into them.
The splendid remit Is that the stream
flows onward evenly all the tlm
through the hair tubes Into the veins
,and back again to the heart on Its
inever-endlng 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 a 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
itr
"Surely."
"What Is It doing?"
"Thumping."
"How many thumps to the minute?
Here is my watch. Count them. Sev
enty? "Now 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 a frac
tion of a 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 j otherwise it will get hot
and jam, like the engine.
"We will hang it in an oil-hag. That
will help also to keep it in Its place.
The bag is slung by fine ties Inside the
box made by the ribs. Inside the bag
there is n beautiful soft, moist lining,
very thin, und 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. I wish the lining of our gasoline
tank would do likewise.
"Every dug has to have a name to
tell It from other dogs, and all these
parts of the body have Latin names er
Greek ones. They are very easy If you
know Latin and Greek, But we do not
really need them.
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"The big pipes which are elastic re
main open and are full of air after the
body Is dead, because, of fniir the
elastic has squeezed all the blood out
of them. But that made doctors think
that they always carried air, and so
they called them 'alr-teries,' and we
still call them by the old name; just
as the first bulb of the heart Is CRlled
the auricle (which Just, means ear),
and the second bulb Is called the ven
tricle (which only means helly). Thus
the pipe to the lungs Is called the lung
pipe or pulmonary artery; and the
pipe that curries blood to the whole
bodv Is called the aorta, or carrier.
"For the heart's 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 (Vagi). Isn't
It odd, these only bring messages to
say, 'Go 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
fices close to the heart, and connected
directly with the big wires In the
spine, right alongside the heart.
"The halrHubes are so fine that It
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 a 'stroke' It Is because an artery
has breken 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 too rea
son that the pipes should not last a
hundred years easily."
by th Bll Syndicate,
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AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION DEPT.
Edited by
Edith Powell County Home Agent
And
Hugh Overstreet County Farm Agent
piece of furniture, while before it
was too good to throw away and yet
not pleasant to work upon.
A shelf put up with brackets adds
greatly to thfc convenience of the
kitchen..
A new oven iui the oil stove was
needed; so it was added.
A problem arose because of the
fact that there .was no place to put
cooking utensils when not in use. This
was solved by salvaging an old goods
box from the store, putting a top with
hinges upon it and putting rollers on
it so that it could be kept under
neath the work table. Mrs. Davis
said today, "That is the most con
venient thing I have in my kitchen.
I wouldn't be without it for anything"
The varnish from the safe was re
moved and new varnish applied. The
tin doors were replaced with glass.
Mr. Davis said that it looked worss
than it did before, but I'm not so
sure of that.
A new piecj of linoleum ami new
curtains complete the improvements, i
An itemized account of liiese im-
prove'ments might be interesting. J
Paint and hire for applying -.$13.00
Oven for oil stove 9.50
Linoleum 6.50
Varnish for safe, chairs and '
cabinet 1.60 j
Remodeling cabinet and mak- -i j
ing box 2.50
Rollers for box .40
Curtains and rods 1-30
Brackets for shelf .20
Oil cloth cover for shelf and
cabinet shelves -55
Glass for safe doors 1.00
Enamel for inside of cabinet- .50
TOTAL . $3Q.05
Mrs. Yoemans has made a marvel
ous change in her kitchen too. Fresh
paint for the walls and all-over lino
leum for the floor gives one hundred
percent appearance. Curtains too,
add to the general appearance.
A new Florence oil stove replaces
a wood stove which was somewhat
the worse for wear.
A safe was varnished and so were
the chairs. Now they look like new.
Mrs. Yoemans' kitchen had a total
cost of 8').05, fifty-one of which was
for the oil stove.
EDITH POWELL,
Home Dem. Agt.
Alabnna has adopted the golden
rod and yellowhammer as its official
state flower and bird, respectively.
Tar-
Dr. E. F. Menius
Eyesight Specialist with
Sam K. Eaton Co.
NEW BERN, N. C.
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MARKER'S ISLAND WOMEN
IMPROVE THEIR KITCHENS
There were only two cases in Police
the Kitchen Improvement Contest on
Harker's Island. Two of these worn- j
en have clone outstanding pieces of ,
work in remodeling their kitchens. '
They are Mrs. Cleveland Davis and
Mrs. Walter Yoemans.
Mrs. Davis began by painting the I
walls and ceiling of her kitchen
The ceiling is ivory, and the walls
were intended to be cream colored,
but the painter accidentally put in a
little too much coloring matter so
that the walls look like the cream of
a cow which has baen kept in a rye
pnsture all winter. This is not a bad
color, but Mrs. Davis was not quite
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NICE, FRESH STOCK
Lettuce, large head .15c
Celery, fancy 10 & 15c
Carrots, per bunch 10c
or 3 for 2Sc
Beets, 10c bunch
or 3 for 25c
Cabbage 4c lb
Irish potatoes 4c lb.
Rutabagas 4c lb.
Onions '. 4c lb.
Seckle Pears, very
sweet, 15c qt.
Bananas 45cdoz.
Oranges 50c doz.
Lemons 35c doz.
Cooking Apples 25c pk.
Coconuts 9c
or 3 for 25c
Grapes 15c lb.
satisfied with it because it was not
like she had planned it. She expects
to change the color a little next sum
mer. Mrs. Davis had .-n aid kitchen cab
inet which she remodelcc'. by taking
off the doors at the top ad making
open shelves. She used white enam
el to freshen up the inside, and var
nish the outside. It is now a" usable
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