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BURKE’S WEEKLY
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
MACON, GA, DEC. 14, 1867.
Contents of No. 24.
How to Make Home Attractive, with an illustra
tion P a S elßs
Marooner’s Island ; by the Rev. F. It. Goulding.
Chapter XVl.—original 185—156
Poetry—Do thy Little —Do it Well 181
Little Willie’s Pets—original—illustrated 187
Editorial —A Sunday School Paper for Nothing;
Thirst; The Close of the Year; Martelle 188
Uncle Ollapod’s Story—Jack Billinglea and the
Water-melon—original 189
The Black Squirrel—illustrated 189
Poetry—Welcome, Papa 190
Jack Dobell; or. A Boy’s Adventures in Texas
Chapter XVll—original 190
Poetry—Little Fingers 191
A Word for Boys 191
The Two Apprentices 191
Our Chimney Corner—illustrated 192
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BXJRKE’S WEE KL Y.
Thirst.
closely resembles hunger in being
iflJl a general sensation, although it is usual
(y-J ly considered only as a local sensation,
OfUff arising from the dryness of the mouth
and throat.”* This dryness of the
e) mouth and throat, so familiar to all, is
produced generally by the want oi a sufficient
amount of liquid in the body, though it it is often
nothing but a local disturbance, while there is a
sufficiency of liquid in the system, for instance,
wines, liquors, coffee, spices, etc., frequently pro
duce a strong sensation of thirst, yet the three first
increase, instead of diminishing, the quantity of
liquid, and we all know how impossible it is to
quench the feeling of thirst, at certain times, by
drinking water or any other liquid.
Andersson, in his travels in Africa, speaking ot
the sufferings of his men, says : “ Even when the
thirsty men and animals were let loose in the wa
ter, although they drank to repletion, the water
seemed to have lost its property, for our best en
deavors to slake our thirst proved unavailing.”
Lewes accounts for this by saying that the long
continuance of thirst had produced a certain fever
ish condition which the necessary supply of liquid
into the system could not relieve, thus proving
that although a deficiency of liquid is the original
cause of thirst, the immediate cause must arise
from some local affection which has been induced.
We are not as thirst}' in wet or damp weather as
in dry, because the skin absorbs the dampness of
the atmosphere, and it is well known that a bath
will relieve the most raging thirst. On this prin
ciple, Dr. Franklin advises those who are exposed
to scarcity of drink to bathe themselves “in tubs
of salt water.” This would do very well for men
well supplied with food, but if food and water
were both scarce, the abstraction of so much heat
from the body, which would follow the bathing,
would probably prove fatal.
If you will refer to our first article on hunger,
you will see that we spoke of an incessant waste
and repair. Now, just as food is necessary to
provide for this waste of the living fabric, water is
necessary to supply the waste which is constantly
going on in the excretions, respiration and perspi
ration. “Every time we breathe we throw off
from our lungs a quantity of water in the form of
vapor. We are made sensible of this when the
breath condenses on the cold surface of glass or
steel, and when, as in winter, the atmosphere is
cold enough to condense the vapor as it issues
from our mouths.”
But a more important source of the waste of
water is that of perspiration, which in hot weath
er, or during violent exercise, causes the water to
roll down our skins, sometimes with disagreeable
copiousness. But there is a considerable waste of
water through the pores of the skin when we are
most quiet, in the way of insensible perspiration.
It has been found, by investigation, that from two
to three pounds of water are daily evaporated from
the skin. It is estimated that every minute we
throw off from the lungs from four to seven grains
of water, and from the skin eleven grains, to say
nothing of what is abstracted by the kidneys.
_ The little reader may wonder why the abstrac
tion of water should so seriously affect the system,
unless the waste be made up. “ What can it mat
ter that the body should lose a little water as va
por? Is water an essential part of the body ? Is
it so indispensable to life?” Do you know that
* Lewes.
water forms seventy per cent of your whole weHp
It enters into the composition of every p art
your body—every bone, every muscle, every nerve
every tendon —every element of your system b,
some of them it forms the chief ingredient ]•,
the nervous tissue, 800 parts out of every 1000
are water; in the lungs, 830 out of 1000, and in
the retime of the eye, no less than 927 out of 1000
parts are water. “It is the carrier of your food
and the vehicle of waste. It holds gases in solu
tion, dissolves solids, helps to give every tissue its
physical character, and is the indispensable con
dition of that ceaseless change of composition and
decomposition on which the continuance of life
depends.”
You will see, then, how necessary it is that the
usual supply of water be kept up in the system
and how a scarcity of it will produce that most
terrible of all sensations, raging thirst—more ter
rible even than that of starvation, for the reason
that during abstinence from food there is a certain
source of supply in the system itself, which makes
life endurable for a time; but during abstinence
from liquid, there is no such source of supply.
So that while “ men have been known to endure
absolute privation of food for several weeks, three
days of absolute privation of drink, unless in a
moist atmosphere, is perhaps the limit of endu
rance.”
The Close of the Year.
(651)w0 more numbers of the Weekly will
jf j|y\ complete the first half year of its publi
cation. Those who, at the beginning,
f subscribed for six months, are notified
that their subscriptions will expire with
No. 26, and they are earnestly requested
to renew at once , if they desire a continuance of
the paper. Jack Dobell will be completed early
in the next year, and we shall commence, in Jan
uary. the publication of a thrilling story of the
war, written for us by a talented lady of Virginia.
It is full of interest and will add greatly to the
attractiveness of our columns. Several new con
tributors will write for us next year, and we have
perfected other arrangements for making the
Weekly still better in the future than it has been
in the past. Will not each one of our present sub
scribers make a special effort, during the Christ
mas holidays, to send us an additional name, and
thus double our circulation ?
Martelle.
give on our first page a picture of this
new and attractive parlor game. It is
pronounced by all who have seen it to
be the most beautiful game extant, is
easily comprehended, and can be play
ed by any number of persons. h” s
elegantly gotten up, and is so simple in most of
its features that the young folks can easily play ifi
while it is capable of being made a game requii ing
such skill that the oldest persons will become
deeply interested in it. It has also been adapte
to the open air, and we shall publish soon a I )1C
ture of the Lawn Game.
This beautiful game sells for $25, but we hau
made an arrangement which enables us to offei 1
as a premium to any one who will send us tuudy
five new subscribers and SSO 00. This ofiei is un
paralleled, and affords an opportunity to an nitn
boy or girl of procuring for nothing either tie
parlor or lawn game, as they may prefer.