The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-26
KINDERGARTEN PUPILS

the necessary energy.
 KINDERGARTEN PUPILS Men see. They hear. They have touch, taste and the capacity to smell. kThese are the five senses of tradition al description. There is also said to be a. sense of equilibrium. with it's seat behind. the ear. which keeps us erect.
 E Hiram Maxim says some creatures have . sixth sense. something that does what eyes ana ears do for other animals, and does it as we'll if not better.
 Sir Hiram therefore recognizes no more than five senses. else he would refer to his new sense as Che seventh What is the sixth sense?' Sir Hiram doesn't tell us.- but he says it can be initiated mechanically in a rude way. He says:
 The animal does have sixth sense and 1t can be initiated in rough sort of way mechanically; not .closc- ly enough to tell exactly the charac- ter of the objects in the vicinity. but certainly to Indicate their direction, distance and size. I know T. can do this over a distance of at least | two miles, and think I shall be able to do it up to a distance of ten miles: That is, if there is any large sobject Il &<~~@ S~.l- can detect it. And this quite in dependeHtly of fog. rain. snow or hail sir Hiram evidently proposes to use his mechanical sixth sense as an ice I+berg detector. The five senses. or the.six. are prob jably only small portion of the equipment of humanity.
 l What is "sense ?" It appears to be a capacity to receive a certain type of vibration and transmit it to 1; an interpreting organ in the brain. The ear is an organ that receives [ exceedingly slow vibrations which the . brain recognizes as sound. The. deep- CT the sound the slower the vibration. The eye is constructed ito appEe- ciate and analyze the various vibra- 1 tions that compose light and create
 color impressions. Sound waves are ! inappreciable at both ends to the hu- man ear. The missing waves may be perceived by other creatures, and are perceived by mechanical things that men build.
 Light waves are. invisible at both ends to the human eye, that may. be
 visible to other creatures and that are readily detected by such contri-
 vances as the photographic plate and
 the ultra microscope. There are an enof n o,s numbe of
 vibrations that nos human organ sdn- terprets. ; What perceptions, would be record
 ed were these vibrations received sby
 suitable contrivances attached to the l brain. none of US now know.
 That various creatures have .sepse organs not given to man is SO prob-
 able as to be certain. 9
 The wonderful gift of the homing
 pigeon may s.he based upon such a sensea F sV
 There is sope proof of the tele- pathic transmission of thought. This would imply in certain persons the possession of asrudinentary sense
 not common to all of us. or less de- ! veioped in most of us: l There is nothing extraordinary in
 Maxim's assertion that he has devis- led an appafatuss capable of detecting
 the presence of considerable bodies at
 a distance.
 l The appreciation of bodies in the
 neighborhood is given in some degree to everybody, Who is not familiar
 with the feeling that somebody or
 something is in the immediate pres
 enee, although. the object is neither :seen nor heard.
 That mechanical contrivancs
 should initiate this faculty or inn 1 prove it would be no more astonish-
 ing than that there are instruments
 that hear what the ear cannot hear,
 or those that see what the eye can
 not see.
 of the things about him. Much has
 been accomplished, but so little that
 men are as those in a kindergarten.
 amazed with things of elemental sim.
 plicity.
 STATE BRIEFS