Tárogató, 1947-1948 (10. évfolyam, 3-10. szám)
1947-09-01 / 3. szám
y 16 TÁROGATÓ FACTS ABOUT THE SUN The sun, we are told, is wholly gaseous, yet its weight is about >1.4 times that of water. The reason for this is that part of the gas is iron and other heavy elements, and, in addition to this, the gases are under terrific pressure, which means that they are under greatest compression. The sun has its cycles of sun spots which exercise incalculable influence upon the earth’s weather, and scientists are endeavouring constantly to interpret just what this may mean to the earth and its inhabitants. ON KEEPING FIT By Ruby Chown An Arab proverb runs, “He who has health has hope; he who has hope has all.” There is no doubt that health and cheerfulness usually go hand in hand; that much depends upon your tone of mind and body as to whether you have pep and enthusiasm equal to present demands. As a matter of fact, we are never more selfish than when we neglect our health. Not only we, but those nearest us, pay a heavy price. An ounce of prevention is still worth a pound of cure. Going to your doctor before he has to come to you is a wise precaution. Then follow his advice to the letter, difficult though that may be. “If you’re ill, go to bed: if not, behave as usual,” is now the maxim in many a well regulated household. Among the three wishes of his heart, Robert Luois Stevenson, who suffered most of his life, put good health first. Very few are blessed with quenchless vitality. It therefore behoves each one of us to concentrate on keeping fit; to find ourstride and keep within it. To be a “terrible” worker, always driven in one direction or another, is foolhard. What if you do accomplish a “heap”, if thereby you become physically unfit? Being just too tired to think at the end of the day in a danger signal. When you drop out of the race, people will merely shake their heads and say, “Too bad!” or “How sad!” In home, office or shop, tired, disinterested workers are most unsatisfactory. The workers who catches cold easily, who displays no interest in life, is not a good investment. Eat wisely. Well balanced food is essential to keeping fit. This is something so well known that we take it for granted until visited by some dire consequence. One young woman persisted in eating only lemons to keep from being hungry and soda biscuits to fill her up. Inevitably she became so ill that she had to be put in hospital, and hopes for her resared mental balance at last reports were feeble. Then we think of that other foolish girl who ate fortythree shredded-wheat biscuits in one week and was rewarded by a most painful protracted dose of hives. Be sure and take enough rest. To one person rest may mean sleep, to another physical exercise, and to a third recreation. A change of occupation is often beneficial, but to the average person sleep corrects perspective and helps probably more than anything else to obliterate the effects of fatigue. Going to bed early is considered by many an uninteresting and old-fashioned thing to do, but there is no substitute when one is overtired. Plenty of fresh air and suitable exercise are health giving. Being too tired to be kind is often the result of utter exhaustion, so do your best to keep fit. NATURE SCIENCE SNAPSHOTS The army jeep may have the postwar role of a fire fighter, rigged with a fivehundred-gallon-a-minute pump. * * * In the production of the famous sulfa drugs, miraclerhealers of modern medicine, over fifty different chemicals are used. * * * There is only a little over an ounce of calcium in twenty gallons of water, yet out of this low concentration the countless millions of shellfish build their shells. * * * A new all-purpose tomato has been developed by the Victoria Department of Agriculture in Australia, the first to be developed in the commonwealth for fifty years. It is called the Tatura Dwarf Globe.
