Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-20
A Game of the Senses.

When you go to your room at night can
you walk directly to the matchbox and
put your hand on it?
When you put your light out and leave
your room, do you have to tumble 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?
thing, do you know enough of feet and
inches to make a fair guess by simply
looking at it?
If you are boy can you calculate by
yards; if girl, by feet?
Can you guess the hight of hat by
sight? The size of anything that is de-
ceptive because it looks larger or smaller
than it really is?
Can you calculate the weight of book,
box of matches, bat, ball, a glass of
water, letter, by holding it in your
hand?
If you hear street cars where there is
double track, can you tell by the sound
which way they are coming?
If you are near a river can you locate a
steamboat by sound?
Can you use your knowledge of music in
analyzing the progressions of steam
whistle? Can you tell on which tone it
stops?
With your eyes shut can you tell what
kind of flower is put to your nose? Do
you know the difference between the odor
of a leaf from a rosebush and one from
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 dit
ference in sound made by four hoofs and
by eight?
Can you match colors without samples !;
carry colors and shades in your memory
BY the touch only can you tell which
you from bunch of different colored
zephyrs pick out a black strand, keeping
your 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 a rose petal taste
like that of violet? Do hard water and
soft water taste alike?
In short, do you use your senses? Do
you train your observation, and then re-
member what you observed ?
The new methods of education are TAX
ing care of eyes and hands used together,
but what classes are there for your nose,
your ears, your touch, your sense of
weight? Where do you go 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 think
you do? Suppose you make game of
"The Senses" and see how many come
nearer the BOBBY prize than the first one
If you could bring one of your favorite
Indian heroes out of book-materializ
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 as like to give my text at the end
instead of the beginning, here it is:
That you are not yourself, but only a
fraction of what your Heavenly Father
meant you to be, unless you have the full
uses of the senses which he gave you.-
Louise Stockton in Vide Awoke