The record-union., 1897-03-21

fore the date of the French revolution
with cabinet of drawers which he
called a "Harmonium of Perfumes
And it gave the Cosmopolitan audiences
quite a new sensation TO have their
nostrils 50 deliciously thrilled with
fugues and sonatas of perfume.
D. McFarlan Moore of New Jersey,
the we'll known electrician, has also a
most ingenious smelling cabinet, which
lis just like a musical box. He can play
an aria in odors.
In future we shall not only be de-
lighted by symphony for each sense,
but we will also have symphony OF
all the senses. Then our theaters Will
be provided with a network of pipes.
similar to gas pipes, under the floor,
with a jet or nozzle for each seat, SO
that when a scene depicted. upon the
stage is located in a Southern pine for
est the realism is made more complete
because each person in the audience
actually enjoys a Whit of the healthful
balsam. The perfumes will be pro-
duced and distributed by the burning
Of smokeless powders behind the
scenes. Exhausters will gently re-
move the fumes in time for the next
number on the programme or scene of
the play.
The investigation of the emotional
effect of various colors upon mankind
opens a rich harvest field. But so far
there have been but few reapers and
cleaners to cut and gather the crop.
DIR. William S. Wadsworth, assist
ant professor of physiology in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, and brother
of the Rev. Charles Wadsworth OF
Philadelphia has been for months pur-
suing the study of colors in one OF
Professor Reichert's laboratories. DR..
Wadsworth had previously assisted
Schiff at Geneva, Holmgren at Upsala,
Herring at Leipsic and Royce at Har-
ward, so that he is admirably equipped
for making precise scientific examina-
tons and records.
Nearly all cultivated people are low
ers of fine music, and at once appre-
ciate the different emotional effects
produced by the dreamy and soothing
cadences of Schubert's "Serenade."
Certain combinations of sound drive
men to battle and others hull them into
absolute content and peace. But prob
ably it has rarely occurred to even the
most thoughtful that ones eyes are
more amenable to the harmonies and
discOrds of colors than are the ears to
the restfulness or restlessness engen-
dered by soft or harsh sounds.
The worst form of torture which the
purple East has ever devised has
been that by color. The twelfth grade
of initiation into the Buddhist myster-
ies-the perfection of the astral edu
cation, so graphically described by A.
Conan Doyle in The Mystery of
Cloomber"-is the so-called color
test" The neophytes are ushered into
an extensive and lofty room. and at a
given signal the whole surrounding
space is flooded with an excruciating
tint of purple light. 1t is reported by
reliable witnesses that not more than
three quarters of those thus penned in
are alive at the end of several hours,
and that all the survivors are more or
less frenzied.
When one is thoroughly exhausted
the eyes are invariably bloodshot. 1t
may not be known that the readiest
and quickest relief for this physiolog-
iCal condition is to battle the eyes with
green. Either go out into the rich
greens of the wood and field, or, if that
be impossible, permit the eyes to rest
untrammeled upon some extensive
green colored surface.
l spent several hours with DR. Wads-
worth in his laboratory some ten days
ago. and was curious to test his posi-
tive statements SO / sat in chair and