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?T they are about to die when they are really 

 in good health, and many think they are well 

 when, in fact, they are on the brink of death." 



That is not quite so true today as it was when 

 Pascal penned it three centuries ago. 



Popular education and readable books on physi- 

 ology have helped. The popular rules of health 

 are based less on superstition and more on science 

 than was the case a hundred years ago. 



Still, the body we live with from infancy to old 

 age is largely a stranger to us. 



Just for a test, try yourself on these 20 facts 

 about your body. How many do you know? 



They are noted from the first 200 pages of 

 Borsey's popular book, "Why Behave Like Hu- 

 mans?'* 



1. One-fourth of all our muscles are in our 

 neck and face. 



2. If one-third of our skin is destroyed by 

 fire, acid or other accident, we die. 



3. We have 32 teeth; eight on each side of 

 each jaw; that is, two incisors, one canine, two 

 bicuspids, and three molars. 



4. A man 150 pounds in weight would weigh 

 50 pounds if he were thoroughly dried out. Our 

 blood is 90 per cent water. Our bones are nearly 

 half water. Conscious brains are 85 per cent 

 water. 



5. To balance our head on our spine; we use 

 20 muscles. To balance our spine when walking 

 we use 144. 



6. In walking, each leg rests half the time. 

 We tire standing because neither leg gets rested. 



7. With every step we take about 300 muscles 

 are used. 



8. Our body temperature is regulated and re- 

 mains constant at 99 degrees. 



9. We average about one squan 

 surface and about 90 square yard^ 

 face. 



10. Normally we take one breath 

 four heart beats. 



11. If you stay quietly in bed you sal 

 heart 20,000 beats a day. 



I 12. A 160-pound man has about eight po^ 

 or four quarts of blood. He can lose up to o* 

 and-a-half quarts at a time and recover. 



13. Your heart beats 40,000,000 times a yeai^l 

 It drives the blood through the arteries at the ' 

 average rate of 30 feet a second. When you sit 

 quiet it pumps about five pints of blood a min- 

 tite. When you run uphill it pumps seven times 

 «s much, or 35 pints. 



14. The motor mechanism with which we walk 

 weighs about 80 pounds. Sixty is muscle and 

 20 bones. 



15. A man can sweat as much as 10 pints in 

 a day. 



16. It is impossible to commit suicide by hold- 

 ing the breath, because as soon as conscious- 

 ness is lost breathing automatically begins again. 



17. About 50 per cent of our body is carbon. 



18. The average muscle is 25 per cent efficient. 

 ■ The trained muscle is only 40 per cent efficient. 



19. We have 2,000,000 tiny pores or sweat 

 j glands. There are 500 to the square inch on 

 1 most of our body, and 2,000 to the square inch 



in the palms of our hands and the soles of our 

 feet. 



20. Just to keep the heart beating, the lungs 

 - functioning and the body at the right tempera- 

 ture requires 1,700 calories a day-— enough 

 energy to lift 200 tons a foot. 



(Copyright, 1927 New York American, Inc.) 



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POETRY 



LADY ISABEL AND THE THIRD PARTY, 



S. E. Kiser — 



THE Lady Isabel possessed 

 A proud patrician air, 

 Although the clothes in which f she dressed 

 ;Wer© hardly more than fair. 

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WITHIN her gray ancestral halls 

 The scene was seldom gay; 

 The beams that rested on the walls 



Were weak- . 



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THE. old ear?, 

 wasn't feeling 

 well, 

 The words he 

 spoke were 

 sad, 



But proudly Lady Isabel 



Addressed her titled dad. 



"*>E not downcast, old dear," said she, 

 "The outlook's not so worse; 

 Good luck's in store for you and 

 Despite your empty purse. 



OCCASIONALLY opportunity will 

 .man, but he can't always hold the j 



"fpOMORROW Prince Gazooks arrives 



I To ask you for my hand; 

 I'll be the second of his wives, 

 The first on© he has canned. 



A ND he will find a way, I know, 

 l\ To save our proud estate; 

 A fortune teller told me so, 



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And said, as happily he smiled; 

 "I'm feeling better now." 



BUT Prince Gazooks came n 

 Gal's heart is like to b 

 A movie queen from Holl 

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