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EYES, EARS AND NOSES.
Sight, Fearing and Smelling Ages Ago
and at the Present Time

+ Sight, Fearing and Smelling Ages Ago
and at the Present Tine
1t is a very curious question, espec-.
tally if the question include the first
animals created as we'll as the first
men, whether there be any difference
between sight, hearing and smell In
those early days and at the presettime.
Smell was one of the most important
senses then, for it aroused appetite,
enabled the animals to seek and find
their mates and to track their prey,
and it gave them a warning Of foes
approach, or presence. With a man
now it is of only third-rate or fourth
rate importance.
The organ of smell, among some OF
| the first creatures, was not near the
end Of the snout, or nose, but near the
brain, and was well-padded or cush-
ioned with fat, and protected by ten
der skin, or by scales overlapping each
other.
But 1t was not more keen or more
delicate then than it is now, especially
in our hunting dogs. Cats, too-and
these are among the later animals
have this sense in great perfection. A
cat has what is called the hom1ng
instinct, and if carried away from home
in the dark, it can return by precisely
the same road. It is said that this Is
because every field, ditch, village OF
house leaves it's own odor in just the
right order on the cats brain, like Z
succession of pictures, and the animal
smells its way back as we would see
ours.
The organ of smell seems to COM
municate with the memory, for the
scent of a flower will sometimes bring
back to grown man the scene asso-
ciated with it in his childhood, and
thousand other subtitle thoughts and
feelings, so that he seems literally
carried back into his past life.
The first creatures knew nothing OF
fragrance. The sweet-smelling flowers
were not then in existence; besides,
their brains were too small to enjoy
the delicate pleasures of sweet odors.
Hearing was comparatively poor
with the first animals, for often an
external ear was lacking. The out
side ear not only protects the delicate
nerves within, like a hood, but also
gathers or collects sounds. A man OF
defective hearing instinctively puts
his hand behind his ear for this pur-
pose. Birds that have no external ear
can easily be surprised by night and
taken, while their acute vision shows
them every movement by day..
The savage races had little idea OF
music. They liked noises as children
like drums and horns. The sayages
on the Midway Plaisance had great
delight in their native music which
was discord to our ears. It required
larger brains and finer training to have
the full delight in melody and harmony
that our musicians possess now.
The eye also, in the gigantic crea-
lures Of early periods, was sometimes
rudimentary, though again it was OF
large size and protected by ring OF
bony plate instead Of the lovely sllken
eyelashes that protect and adorn the
human eye now. In some of those
lizard-like animals that burrowed In
the mud there were three pairs CT
eyelids, one of them transparent. so
that the animal might see through 1t
closed.
II is said that early writers, like
Homer, speak of very few coiors,
chiefly red, or purple" as they calico
it then.
Enjoyment of beauty, of graceful
curves and lines and proportion or OF
harmonious and Vi iried colors and
their delicate tints, belongs to later
state of cultivation. more developed 3
brain, than most of the early races
,,new.-Philadelphia Times.