Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1918 — BELIEVE BRAIN IN STOMACH [ARTICLE]

BELIEVE BRAIN IN STOMACH

Chinese Ignorant of the Anatomy of Human Body—Subject of Microbes Difficult to Teach. Ignorance is responsible for the guesswork of the Chinese about the anatomy of the human body, Jean Price writes in World Outlook. “Nothing is known of the nervous system or of the circulation of the blood, and every organ except the brain-is said to have a pulse. The heart is Consld- > ered to be the center of being, and therefore it must also be in the center of the b >dy.” The Chinese also believe that the brain is In the stomach. Perhaps -that is the reason that more than half the thought and conversation of the common people relates to food! \ ' It is ignorance which makes a mother chew her child’s food, before putting it in the little erne’s month. It to ignorance which allows a mother to wash the clothes In a green, stagnant pool while the child at her side eagerly drinks the same water. It is Ignorance which our mission doctors have to fight when they suggest that Women should not use poisonous face paint, should bathe the baby at least once before it is grown, should wash the dishes once a month In clean water. This Ignorance makes the sub-' ject of microbes more difficult to teach, than the English in which It is tanght. And, though it’s hard to say, It is Ignorance which causes a lover to taki water in which his body is washed and secretly mix It in the drink of his loved one. But, then, that to romance and we musn’t mention germs in the same breath.