The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-02
WHICH WAY IS NoaTHi
Different Methods ~ Rightlng Persons
Who Get turned Around

Nothing IS better known than that
/ some people have o keen sense of di.
rection, while others do not. and vet
every one is apt TO get turned around
sometimes losing the correct iudg.
/ mont oi direction. When such an
error Is made. the person who has be
come turned around is under the
necessity ot being set right. The
French have a special term for this;
one Wko establishes lis direction is
said 20 s'orienter, which means liter.
ally TO cast ones self; and the sense OF
direction Is called "orientation." a
word which the English language has
borrowed
The tendency of the English speak
ing people, however, IS % use the
north as the starting point Of direc.
ton rather than the cas, \ people
whose ancestors have lived chiefly in
land like the Romans and the French.
think naturally OF the rising of the
sun as giving the central point of di-
rection
y SEA lamng race, on the contrary.
fOOks To the North Star as the one
fixed. interchangeable point sure 10
guido ship accurately SO a person
OF the Anglo saxon race IS almost sure
toasE. when "iurucdaround. " (which
WayI nOWh!
When one has found the North
Star. on seen the sun rise or set. after
being turned around is he really
SCI right in his own sense Of the dircc.
,ion
Ono may easily make a mistake.
especially Ia a city or within house.
and even become turned clear
around. making north seem south.
and easi west When he is corrected
IS it within his power to make the di-
rccu0ns seem u-ltt
Ihe.e is great difference between
individuals iu OH respect Some are
instantly conscious of tine points Of
.he compa wherever they may be:
tAe. lAay err, bat they cannot avoid
Ono sense i0. moment that one way
!, north and another south
OihcH seldom give the directions In
Strange place thought until they
are informed and such persons find il
bard 10 understand the case of others
who. though living for years IA
place whore tley iaye once been
turned around. can never make the
point "ecem RIGHT and are often
much Distressed bN She fact
There D. reason o. believe that the
people Who iMl 1t band 10 escape from
on error of tAis sOlt are really the ones
vino have tho lceucst natural sense Of
direction They are acutcly conscious
oi direction, and when they have
made "a mistake find the impression
80 deep thlt 10 cannot he shaken or.
Such persons errors are apt 10 he
few and % be- made iu towns and the
interiors of houses IN tAeo folds F.
aud woods they seldom err while the
person who easily odapts himself TO
the information Of others is likely, IN
the woods. 90 move about ia circle /.
and become lost
The savage has n better sense OF di. +
roct.0u that tAo civilized man. because .
DE has had more occasion 10 cultivate .
IT, The civilized man, says Emor- /
son. has O Greenwich nautical al /
manac. and So, being sure Of the in
formation when he wants il, the man .
i'm ibo street docs not know a star IN
the sky '
But it is a mistake to suppose that
the Indian is never turned around.
ID cities he often Is. and sometimes
oven boz the w0od- II is h.scOnlidence
ia himself which has Ted many persons
20 suppose That the Indian never errs
in his direction The story of the lost
Indian who's Indian no lost; wiz
wam lost, " may well have been true,
for even the savage, though he trusts
his own Judgment, may lose his sense
Of direction
But the Chinese. although the first
people tO use the artificial means OF
liking the direction the compassion
lhc most part have the gift of Judging
the direction instinctively They never
say. turn 70 the right, turn TO the
left. in showing the way, but always
turn to the north, or 20 the south,
and so on. Their sense Of direction
probably does not, however, come
from a particular gift but from the
practice. very common with them, OF
studying the heavens. Youths Com
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