Few subjects arouse so universal or so deep an interest as the study of crime. This interest is due in the main to the adventurous and romantic traits in human nature. Criminal conduct appeals to these human traits because it is regarded as being a spontaneous response to impulse, and even the most prosaic and conventional individual chafes to a certain extent under the restrictions of law and...
Life is a perpetual function; it has for its seat the organs which, working and modifying themselves incessantly, have a constant tendency to revert to their primitive type Thence a continual current of exchanges, the upkeep of which is borne by alimentation. According to its nature, it preserves in a normal state the composition and the texture of the organs, or rather transforms slowly then:...
Food is the matter that is taken into the body to supply nourishment or to replace tissue-waste. Every physical act consumes a part of the force that has been derived from food. The maintenance of the body-heat consumes another part, and in growing individuals a certain amount is utilized in building up the new tissues.
Food as it is taken into the body differs very much in composition from...
The past few years have been a period of great and fruitful activity for the biological chemist. When one surveys the results that have been amassed, one feels that the requisites of diet are so numerous as to make failure in nutrition altogether more probable than success; it seems scarcely possible that all the known demands shall be satisfied. But as a corrective upon this impression, we...
In the production of glucose by the hydrolysis of starch, a considerable quantity of fat occurs in the glucose liquor. From the previous treatment of the raw starch this fat appears to be an inherent part of the starch itself. This investigation was undertaken to determine whether fat is really combined with the carbohydrate in the starch molecule.
It was shown that:
(a) Fat is...
Life is only earned on by virtue of the continuous changes and expenditures which create the corresponding alimentary wants A full grown man, in good active health, uses up each day, calculated in the fresh state, about 500 grms of his flesh or of other albuminous compounds which form his blood and his tissues.
He burns a part of his fats and furnishes by their combustion, and by that of...
Finnish dances are relatively easy to follow and can be a lot of fun for children and adults alike. Below are some Finnish dances along with steps for you to enjoy!
Skvaller-Ulla (Gossipping Ella) ia a Finnish dance which is full of life and vitality. The movements are executed with great abandon. It represents the little child's boisterous spirit, combined with the weight of the adult. Such...
The common events of the daily life are subjects for many dances. "Gossiping Ella" is a pungent little drama. "Bounding Heart" suggests in its title the glad, wild form of the dance. "The Drake" is a story which all country people would know. "The Gardener" is a very humorous bit, for the slipping of one line under the other is the telling part of the dance. "The Dumpy One" explains itself even...
The adult man in full health recuperates daily by his food what he loses by his functions. In the normal state the two conditions balance one another but if by an internal or external cause an inequality is produced, the individual happens to lose more than he gains or to accumulate more than he loses.
If the nutrition is abnormal or such cells charging themselves with albumin, with fat,...
Professor Frederick Peterson of Columbia University, well known as a nerve specialist writes: "The dance seems to fulfill every requisite of an ideal exercise; the practical use of all the muscles, the acme of pleasurable emotion, and the satisfaction of the
esthetic sense." This is true of the folk dances. They are the ideal natural form of exercise. Moreover, they are simple, pretty and...
