DO WE DRINK ENOUGH WATER?

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3872, 11 May 1906, Page 3 (Supplement)

DO WE DRINK ENOUGH WATER?

A habit that lias a direct influence in disturbing the functions, and, therefore, in shortening life, is that of insufficient water chinking. A mail or woman weighing 1501 b. contains about 11-311). of water. This fluid, as blood, lymph, chyme, ohyle, saliva, gastric juice, etc., is constantly flowing hack and forth in thc body, doing its various work, and finally passing out through thc skin, lungs or kidneys, laden with the body’s poisons. The daily output of fluid from the body is from 5 to 71b. All the pro'cc.'-ses of life within the body go on in a watery medium. Thousands of people suffering from constipation, indigestion and kidney..disorder would be relieved if they would supply to the body the water it needs; ami the body needs, says Dr. Batson (from whom we quote) for its proper functioning not less than two quarts of water daily.

HORNS WITHOUT HUNTING. It is not istrango that the demand for the horns- and heads of great game should have created many lucrative “faking” businesses; but, fortunately for honest people, tho “faking” of horns is in most eases Impossible. It is decidedly risky to a person attempting the fraud, and almost certain to be found out. Two young taxidermists of my am quaintance onco came to grief by a clumsy' and foolish attempt at grafting one pair of elk antleivs upon another to secure great length of beam. Faked “death lock" antlers are becoming .so common that no collector need he without a pair. Whenever a pair i.s offered you for inspection, note, whether or not tho opposing antlers have rubbed each other at their points of contact. If they have not, then tho antlers were interlocked by tho interposition of hot water and wooden wedges. YOUR IDLE -DREAMS. A doctor calls attention to the fact that dreams depend on .some other media than tlio.se known to us ns the five souses, (Most conclusive evidence in favour of this view i.s found in the circumstances that even the blind are able to .see in dreams—as witness the experience.) recorded by Helen Keller. Milton, and others. Hence the conclusion seems to lie unavoidable that it is only as far as physical vision i.s concerned that the optic nerve guides and limits tin field of vision. He arrives at tho deduction that dreaming and waking differ in degree and form of manifestation only, not in principle and .essence. The .same world that surrounds the waking individual .surrounds the dreaming, only Hie viewpoints and media of observation are changed. Ordinary dreams are merely undigested .consciousness, Jieing made up of longings, desire's, anticipations, idle hopes, and mi.renrried realisations.