The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-10

bottles number 1,5O0, so that he may really
be said to have 1900 different smells bottled
! UP. His baby at ten months could distfn-
gufsh fifty different tastes and thirty different
! smells. While were talking the baby came
into the laboratory with his nurse. He looked
to me as happy and healthy as any child
cou-d be- Prof Gates tells me that his ex-
periments in teaching him never last more
than five minutes at time and that the
child really likes them. He also said that
child who had been trained for six weeks after
birth in the excessive use Of the heat and
cold senses was found, after dying OF scarlet
fever, to have in the temperature areas of
the brain than twenty-four times the
average number Of cells.
l asked Prof Gates when brain building
should begin.
He replied that it should really begin in
the father and mother, before the child was
born, and that the child widhin few weeks
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HOW MEN MAY CHANGE
Prof. Gates says that his experiments show
that men can really work their brains over
and make them new. They can rebuild them.
and can make them do original thinking for
them along any line they choose. l had my
photographer with me during my call at the
laboratory. Prof. Gates pointed to him and
said: II can take that man. and within
year, If he viii follow out my directions | can
have him making new discoveries and inven-
lions in Photography. ] would first teach him
how to control his mind and how to use it in
the direction Of his work. would gradually
lead him to original thinking, invention and
discovery. l would have him take the sum OF
accurate human knowledge in photography
and would teach him how to work from that
on through to new ideas. He would first exer-
else every Of his thirty or forty mental
functions uron each proposition of the science.
This would keep each faculty. active for a GER
tain number of hours each day The parts Of
his brain which he needed to deal with the
subject would grow, his sub-conscious func-
tons would become stimulated and new
ideas would dawn upon him. l have found
that six months practice along the lines which
! lay down usually quadruples the mental
capacity of a man, and more than quadruples
the number Of ideas gained each day. OF
course, such ideas have to be tested by OBJ
seTvation and experiment TO their correct
ness. Take this microscope, for instance The
wonderful thing about 1t is not the discovery.
but it is the art Of mind using and mind
building which 1 have used which has re-
suited in the discovery
COOL BRERzEs ON TAP.
During the hot weather of last August Prof.
Gates put his brain to work on some way of
reducing the temperature of his laboratory.
The result was what he calls cold air stove.
This invention he has patented and it may
come into general use. 1t consists merely of
a large tube Of zinc. down which through a
small pipe connected with the water works
a spray continually fails, COOKING the air with
in the pipe and driving it out into the room.
The warm air in the room rises and goes out
through the window which is slightly lowered
bucket Of zinc. in the bottom of which there
is waste pipe to carry off the water, the
machine being SO made that the cool air
rusheS out into the room. Prof. Gates says
that during the hot spell in September, when
the Thermometer stood at IS, in his laboratry
he reduced it to 50 in the course of hour
by using one OF these stoves. He says q
stream of water about as big around as a lead
/ pencil Viii keep room ct that temperature
J throughout the summer. During my caH the
weather was COOL There was but little diff
ference between the temperatures Of the air
and water, that satisfactory test could
not be made. l could see, however, how the
air rushed out OF the bucket when the water
was turned on. and the stove will, it seems
to me. be a great thing for those who wish
g. fresh breeze without going to the mountains
or the seashore.
EXPERIMENTS ON CELLS.
It is, however. along the lines of psychology
rather than practical invention that Prof.
Gates is working. He takes, he says, no
scientific statements for granted. and tests
everything according TO the best instruments
known. Among his most interesting studies
have been those Of cell life. All plants and
animals are, you know, made up of cells. We
are each composed of millions of cells and
Prof Gates says that each Of these cells has
a certain amount of mind He has discovered
that microbes can feel. He took one of the
lowest living organisms and laid it on a
piece Of glass He then sent a strong ray of
light SO that it fell upon the organism and
within few seconds it began to move, show
ing that it must have felt the light and want
ed to get away from it. He has discovered
he says, that all animals In using their minds
act to certain extent upon all other ami
mails. For instance. he found that when he
put the ray Of light such organism
it required two seconds before it was az
fected by it. He again performed the sans
experiment with several men in the room,
all of whom were thinking intently on
certain problem and found that the mind
waves, as they might be called, had SO stim-
ulated the little organism that it moved in
half second. Such mental action goes from
US in waves, according to Prof. Gates. with
a velocity of $4,000 miles a second, while
the movement of feeling along the nerves of
your body toward the brain is only ten feet
a second, so that mentally you are nearer
the emperor Of China than you are to your
big tee.
There were a number of other experiments
which Prof. Gates explained during my call.
In the most quiet way he stated the most
astounding things giving what seemed to me
good reason or experimental demon
stration for many of his statements. He
has outlined q new science of mind build
ing and mind using, which within short
time will be presented to the public in a
series Of books, in which he viii describe
his experiments and give their results
Frank G. Carpenter.
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