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A Game Of the Senses.

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can you walk directly to the match
box and put your hand on it?
When you turn out your light and
leave your room, do you have to fun-
BILE for the door, or can you 60 straight
across the room and take hold of the
knob?
Can you at night walk among the
trees without running into them, or
keep the garden path as directly as you
would were it daylight? .-
If you wish to estimate the size of
anything, do you know enough Of feet
and inches to make fair guess by
simply looking at it?
II you are boy, can you calculate
by yards if girl, by feet?
Can you guess the height of hat by
sight? The size of anything that is
deceptive because it looks larger or
smaller than it really is?
Can you calculate the weight of a
book, a box of matches, bat, ball, q
glass of water, a letter, by holding it
in your hand?
If you hear street cars where there
is a double tract, can you tell by the
sound which way they are coming?
If you are near river, con you To-
cate a steamboat by sound?
Can you use your knowledge of mu-
sic in analysing the progressions Of a
steam whistle? Can you tell on
which one it stops?
With your eyes shut can you tell
what kind Of q flower is put to your
nose? Do you know the difference be-
tween the odor of a leaf from rose
bush and one from a maple-tree?
Can you tell from the bark Of tree
the points of the compass? .
Can you by listening tell what kind
of vehicle is coming, and how many
horses are attached to it? Do you
know the difference in sound made by
four hoofs and by eight?
Can you match colors without SAM
pies; carry colors and shades in your
memory?
BY the touch only can you tell
which material is cotton, which is
woolen? Can you from. u bunch of
diferent-colored zephyrs pick out a
black strand, keeping y5ur eyes shut ?
Can you'by the TASTE only tell what
kind of meat you are eating? Can
you decide what flavor has been used
In glass of soda water?
Does rose petal taste like that of q
violet? Does hard water and soft va
ter taste alike?
In short: do you use your senses ?
Do you train your observation, and
then remember what you observed?
The new methods of education are
taking care of eyes and hands used to-
gether, but what classes are there for
your nose, your ears, your touch, your
sense of weight? Where do you 60 to
school to learn to see in the dark, to
smell fire. to hear flies sneeze? Do
you not perceive that this education
you must give yourself? You can
train your senses every moment you
are awake. At this moment what do
you see, hear, smell? Are you sure
you really see, hear, and smell what
you snof Sbe STS sensep sspGsed snd
many come nearer the Booby's prize
than the first one?
If you could bring one of your ia
vorite Indian heroes out Of book
materialize him, you know-and have
him Join you in the Donkey game,
don't you believe he would get the tail
somewhere near the right place? He
would not be fit for an Indian hero If
he could not walk straight with his
eyes shut.
And 80 like to give my text at the
end instead of at the beginning, here
it is:
That you are not yourself but only a
fraction of what your Heavenly Fa-
ther meant you to be, unless you have
the full use Of the senses which he
gave you.-Louise Stockton, in Wide
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