Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-09

thousand different shades of color, and
who has been specially trained in see
ing, feeling and in other ways. l be-
lleve that we have eight senses, you
know, instead of Ave. We see, we
hear, we smell. we taste, we touch.
We also have a sense OF cold and a
sense Of heat, ana also "A sense Of
muscular action. All OF these senses
are based upon thought. They are
controlled 10y the mind. The use Of
them acts upon the mind. Every time
you use one of them certain set of
cells In the brain is changed, and by
their use you can build mp Il new set
of brain cells. Unless all Of these
senses are used your brain Will be I'M
evenly developed, and some parts of It
win not be developed at all. In train
ing my child / tried to make him use
all of his senses. / taught him the
sense of heat and cold by the use of
hot and cold baths. graduated from
cool to warm. | also used rubber
gloves, connected with the water sup
ply, and as a result of this | believe
his brain will be stored with memories
of all the degrees OF heat and cold he
Is likely to have in life, and / think
he VIII be able to endure the differ
enccs Of temperature. He Is now
two and a half years old, and he has
never been sick but once, and then
he had the measles"
Prof. Gates showed me the boxes or
blocks with which he taught his child
the different geometrioal shapes. He
has whistles with which he taught
him sound so that he can now dis
tlngulah between scores Of different
pitches. He has bottles containing
different liquids, each having a differ
ent smell. These bottles number iif
teen hundred, so that he may really
be said to have fifteen hundred differ
ent smells bottled up. His baby at
ten months could distinguish iifty
different tastes and thirty different
smells. while we were talking the
baby came into the laboratory with
his nurse. He looked to me MS happy
aud healthy as any child could he.
Prof. Gates tells me that his expert
ments in teaching him never last
more than five minutes at time, and
that the child really likes them. He
also said that a 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 scar
let fever, to have In the temperature
areas Of the brain more than twenty
four times the average number of
cells.
asked Prof. Gates when brain
building should begin.
He replied that It should really be-
gin in the father and mother before
the child was born. and that the child
begin its brain development.
HOW MEN MAY CHANGE THEIR
BRAINS.
Prof. Gates says that his expert
mcnts 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 that they
choose. / had my photographer with
me during my call at the laboratory.
Prof. Gates pointed to him and said:
Il can take that man. and within
year. If he Will follow out my dircC-
tons, l can have him make new dis
cuvcries and inventions in photo
Fraphy. / would first teach him how
TO control his mind and how to use 1t
in the direction of his work. ] would
gradually lead him to original think
ing, invention and discovery. | would
have him take the sum Of accurate
human knowledge in photography
and would teach him how towork from
that ON through to new ideas. He
would first exercise every one of his
thirty or forty mental functions upon
each proposition Of the science. This
would keep each faculty active for a
certain number of hours every day.
The parts of his brain which he need
ed to deal with the subject would
grow. his sub-conscious functions
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 observation and experiment as to
scope, for instance. The wonderful
thing about it is not the discovery,
! but 1t IS the art Of mind using and
mind building which / have used
which has resulted In the discovery"
COOL BREEZEs ON TAP.
During the hot weather of last Au-
gust Prof. Gates put his brain to work
on some way Of reducing the temper
allure OF his laboratory. The result
was what he calls n cold air stove.
This invention he has patented, and 1t
may come into general use. 1t con-
/ sists merely of a large tube of zinc,
down which through a small pipe con-
nected with the water works Il spray
continually falls. cooling the air with
/ in the pipe and driving 1t out into the
| room. The warm air In the room rises
| and goes out through the window,
which is slightly lowered from the top.
| The pipe rests in sort of bucket OF
| zine In the bottom of which there is
| a waste pipe to carry OF the water,
! the machine being so made that the
| cool air rushes out into the room.
| Professor Gates says that during the
| hot spell In September, when the Their
mometer stood at 9S. In his laboratory
| he reduced II to 60 I'm the course of an
| hour by using one of these stoves.
/ He says n stream OF water about as
/ big around as n lead pencil will keep a
room at that temperature throughout
| the summer. During my call the
weather was cool. There was but
| little difference between the tempera-
| ture of the air and water, so that
/ n satisfactory test could not be made.
] could see, however, how the air
| rushed out of the bucket when the
water was turned on, and the stove
will, 1t seems to me, be a great thing
/ for those who wish a fresh breeze
| without going to the mountains or the
scashOre.
EXPERIMENTS ON CELLS.
II is. however. along the lines of
| psychology rather than practical In
| Vcntion that Prof. Gates is working.
ments for granted, and tests every
| thing according to the best instril-
/ ments known. Among his most inter
estng 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.
! lie has discovered that microbes can
| feel He took one of the lowest living
/ organisms and laid II on n piece OF
| glass He then sent n strong ray of
! light so that il fell upon the orra nisu