Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
A GAME OF THE SENSES.
Illusionary Spectacles That Puzzle TIN
Vision and the Mind.

Vision and the Mind.
When you go to your room at night,
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 tumble
for the door, or can you go 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 any
thing, do you know enough of feet and
inches to make a fair guess by simply
''i 1fyss At s' It: boy can you oa'en by
yards; if a girl, by feet?
Can you guess the height of hat by
sight? The size of anything that is de-
ceptive because it looks larger OF smaller
than it really is?
Can you calculate the weight of
book, box of matches, a bat, ball, a
glass of water, letter by holding it in
| your hand?
If YOU hear street cars where there is
a double track can you tell by the sound
which way they are coming!
If you are near river can you locate
steamboat by sound?
Can you use your knowledge of music
in Analysing the professions of a 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 leaf from rose bush and one
from maple tree?
| Can you tell from the bark of the
trees 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 samples
carry colors and shades in your
memory?
By the touch only can you tell which
material is cotton, which is wooden! Can
you from bunch of different colored
zephyrs pick out 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 rose petal
ia Ste 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
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 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
yourself 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 a 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.
AS like to give my text at the end
instead of the beginning, here it is:
THAT you are not yourself, but only
fraction of what your Heavenly Father
meant you to be, unless you have the
full use of the senses which he gave
you. ~ Louise Stockton.