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188 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 CRANDALL’S BUILDING BLOCKS. W large consignment of j 1 these admirable blocks for i f" 4/ 1 . children, which we will IMLA 1 send, by express, at the a Jjjy They are put up in neat Jkiqj 111 ' : and substantial boxes, each j|gggj@| fggplp with an engraving showing the blocks. ' To the boy or girl who will send us three subscribers to Burke’s Weekly, and #6. we will send a set worth SI 50: for four subscribers, and SB, we will send a set worth $2; and for five subscribers, and $lO. we will send a set worth SO. Address J. W. BURKE & CO„ Publishers, Macon, Ga. Postage oh the “"Weekly.” The postage on the Weekly, when paid quarterly or yearly, at the office of delivery, is five cents a quarter or twenty cents a year. A Sunday School Paper for Nothing. ®NTIL further notice, we propose to send the Weekly and either one of the fol lowing Sunday School papers, for one year, to all new subscribers who remit (-0$ us $2 00: The Sunday School Visitor , (Methodist,) published at Nashville, Tenn.: The Child's Delight , (Baptist,) published at Macon, Ga.; The Children's Guest , (Episco pal,) published at New York ; The Children's Friend , (Presbyterian,) published at Richmond, I'a. ; or The Child's World , published by the American Sunday School Union at Philadelphia. These papers are all beautifully illustrated, and filled with stories and poems calculated to improve the mind and heart. Any one of our present subscribers who has paid us $2 for a year’s subscription, will be enti tled to receive either one of these papers by send ing us an additional name and $2. Back Numbers. We can still supply back numbers from the be ginning of the volume. Yearly subscribers can be supplied with the first thirteen numbers, stitch ed in an elegant illuminated cover. ts Names may be added to clubs at any time during the year, at the regular club rates. 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.