The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-23

The Spectator
 or alii chance wishing carpets. a sudden scent Is the most wayward and carries those who meet 1t on the longest journeys iah a. ths ssuch: memory Steps oyer ths in- terval staighE into fofRotton gardens to seashorea of which there Ia no vision. Are far offf You do not know how distant a renembrance can be. or from how far out of the past t can come. until perhaps in wet depth A of 2 wood. tAers blows . suddey s:s:1 ss1:ae sss1 g $: :ns sssii sS' 'aA'' ' ft mlghk be . ?. leisuFed man of soiei
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 ed always with 6 particular fioweIe, con. Doubtless there would be no exact CO., cIusicua to such e search. but it might givsa ths opportunity of askins some Interesting questions. The searcher would constitute himsslf inte a commission empowered to take evidence on leading points. such as: what is the scent which seems to you to belong to your earliest recollecti0naf What associations does 1t bring to your mindi Do any scents bring you unhappy recoilect- lons7 and if 60. what are theyf Of the commonest scents which all know in what % ion of them? 1t would lead to a a good deal of memories. but something would emerEe
 The memories of those who have always had access to gardens and wild places would probably lead te the mora valuable somparisons- M Tepld ss inssrSstinE t,o to to tkoss who believe their earliest memory 6f scent to be the cup of | tulip under an off the inherent likelihood of that being the first of remsmbored scents of flowers. A child learns from babyhood thet flowers CTS and invited to smell them. and the fiowers t wants and Is given are always picking a violet or primrose and asking e baby to smell it: perhaps 6 polyanthus is a flower which gets into the perambula- earliest flowers sffered could not be re- membsred any more than the other incl dents of absolute babyhood-
 But the first flower which e child would RneIl for himself would probably be tulip. It is one of the earliest of the sprtng flow ling. for a child does not balance well enough to stoop as low az . crocus or snowdEop' # 4 brightly sSlorso aoI snG SeIie ss ,s: and it has scent which Ia unlike any other flower. so that it would ea remem- bsred distinctly. Perhaps for many children the waIlfIower would occur as carly as the tulip; the present writer cannot quite make up his mind between the tulip and the ways purple crocuses growing on roekery which were an even more oonvenient height lips and the crocuses come daisies. not only the scent of the flowers. but the smell of ssuSGeE CT s. Sappy nIps. ths ,ufsrencs is the aST of daisy chains. Then an autumn smell of hot sun on wet brown leaves and ripe blackberries in a basket: the scent of the single fruit is thin and delicate. but hun dreds hot in a basket sxhale something fnusky and vinous; there must be a wine to be made from hlackherries in Q way not yet discovered. To the same indefinite per- iod belongs the scent of miRnonette and garden of a seasido hotel; 1t carries tar with t. and candytuft. and perhaps broken Eeranium stalks. Rain on clearing of . CT. with the green bitter odor of young iarchss and thick. drenehed moss That is s Ins 'S5a sssF in shasirs tns Tss ness tss
 The comparison of the power of scents to taar deep memories must be with the power of music. An air heard at Q particu- lar time place. and perhaps not heard again for years. wfll bring back the hour when 1t first sounded with the sureness almost of actual return D the scene. Even the vuIgarest tune of tHe pantomime can take on exotic graces if ft has been heard most insistently in sure ebundings that be- long to 1t only by aocidS Snt of the day and' che place. But there is difference in the memories recalled. An Alr of a tune may recall q place as sharply as scent. and with as deep and breaking longing for what has been and can be no knore. the desidera- fish; but the very sharp& ess and suddsnness and compieteness of itf9 cali into the past make the difference FStween 1t and the power of aeant. For the power of recalling what Is bygone that h&lonEs to scents can be something indefinit4Y vague. often dtf- ficult and unintsliiKtbR. The music was q certain tune heard at certain place at a certain time; you can tdRte tt II with clear precision.
 Hut the scent of Nln in the ehaiice of a tulip belongs to ai4 the distant. undate- able beginning ofsEhings-to the queerest to fhe most haphazard conn ngs and goinRs: the scent Of pine woods wrapped in q pafAicular soap. and lacky moth catsrpiilaFs .ause they were once kept in soap boxs, taee the song of cana 'ies always FinRtn ough the smell of 'obblers wax beet Inc village cobblAr's lcbhy was canar nd if the power Of cent has one erent property of iss ,wn. it 10 that es arc almost cor ainly haF~' ring such sadnaes hat h
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