Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-29
BRAIN PRED0MINATES.
DIMINISHED DEVELOPMENT OF NOSES
EYES, EARS AND LIMBS.
The Sense of Smell-Ciyilized Races as
spectacle-wearcrs-A Story from Popu-
lar science-Legs of the Dude-Women
Losing Their Arms.

That tine brain has in later days of evoiu.
ton succeeded in predominating and dom
mating the whole body is clear enough. L,
for our advantage.
As animals we are not so good animals q;
we were. The little Australian savage gets
down on all-fours and trails marauders by
the sense of smell This sense we have no,
only lost in degree, but in kind We dc
not comprehend what the dogs power is
when he follows his masters track by seen.
days after his passage. Our noses are nc
longer the open organs Of the little Aus
tralian, but the brain has come down, with
its influence, to turn it into an intellectual!
feature You can judge good deal of a
parsons wit and wisdom by his nose; not
much, however, Of his power of smelling.
EYEsIGHT OF A SOUTH AMERICAN INDIAN.
The brain is having the same power Oh
the eyes The savage sees as We can not
Humboldt tells of certain excursion on
the Andes when, being separated from a
part Of his company, he began to fear from
their long absence that they were lost Sc
expressing himself to his native guides, they
did not seem to understand him. Repeat
ing his anxiety, they answered in astonish-
ment, There they are" pointing across to
an opposite spur of the mountain Hum
boldt looked where they evidently directed,
but saw nothing. Then taking his field
glass, by their help, he was able to discover
his friends. Then asking his guides to de
scribe the movements Of those he was only
able to watch with a powerful glass, he
found that in reality the savage eye was
equal to his, plus telescope. Civilized
races are distinguishable as spectacle wear
ers The tendency must be checked, or We
will be a race of people with such enfeebled
senses that it would be better TO be savages.
The ears in this case are following the
eyes and nose The lower races have a
power, equally incomprehensible to us, of
catching and co-ordinating waves of sound
that to us are lost in the general roar of the
day. With his ear to the ground the hunter
can detect prairie on fire fifty miles away.
The world has TO him no empty sounds; no
vacant noises The Popular Science Monthly
reports the following instance: While we
were talking two young dogs had gone to
an eminenoe a few rods from the Old man S
cabin, and, with their noses in the air,
would at short intervals utter low, warn
ing cry.
DOGS DETECTING A DISTANT FIRE.
.'The trapper noticed it, and calling to an
old dog in the cabin said, Dave, 90 up there
and see what those youngsters are making a
fuss about The dog, after reaching the
spot stood moment with outstretched neck
and distended nostrils, then gave clear but
low warning notice, such as | had never heard
from dog before is that so, Dave, said
the old man. He immediately went to the
same place and began TO sniff the air, much
after the manner of the dogs. Sure enough,
Dave, he said, you are right. The prairie
is ON fire some forty miles northwest from
here | must set back-fire the other
side of the creek, or my cabin and bees will
be ashes before morning. Before starting
to warn the settlement l initiated the dogs
and trapper; but could detect nothing but
sweet October air; but the ire came on as
they warned us Here was a sense COM
bined of hearing and smell that to us is
lost
Look now at the legs of this little Aus
tralian, TO whom / referred. or to the legs
OF any savage. and then observe that the
dude has legs of exactly the same pattern,
thin, like sticks, without beauty or grace
or strength. You will then observe with
no pleasant thought, that the proportion OF
savage legs in a city population is much too
large Ii is not owing to abnormal health,
but to too much care for the head and too
little care for the rest OF the body.
Women are losing their arms as men are
losing their legs Fashion no longer, or
very seldom, DEGREES sleeveless dresses. She
knows better than to show what she has not
a chance TO pad Butter-making, and spin
ming, and splitting kindling wood, AID milk
ing cows, makes arms; wearing sixteen
button kids does not do il. The tendency
have gone SO far to relieve the arms 10y ma
chinery that we have few mothers capable
Of honestly spanking a boy of Il. Brains
have not yet safely carried all boys of IL
beyond the need of spanking.-~E- L. r in
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