The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-04-18

come a Frenchman and adopt his
ways and cultivate taste for stencil
es as he cultivates. The following
article we commend to our readers.
Most people imagine that smells
can be classified as sweet or vile In
an absolute sense. The smell OF
flower is assumed to be sweet and
odor of putrefaction is deemed vile.
The truth is, according to the Paris
Cosmos, that habit, the association o.,
ideas, and individual temperament de-
termine the reality Of these impress
sions. There are in Paris municipal
employees who 80 love the odor OF the
sewers in which they toll that they
feel indisposed after their retirement
upon a pension. They drop back in
to the old associations now and then
for Whit Of the stencil. This Is not
morbid. The smell of the rose sick
ems not few persons. Nor are they
to be deemed morbid. 1t Is we, with
our sensitiveness to perfumes, who
are the morbid. We are over per
fumed by the barber, the hairdresser
and even by the doctor.
Time was when men lived in mag
nificence amid the worst conceivable
J stenches. They loved those stenches
Just as today we all love particular
odors of a disagreeable kind. The
smell of a newly printed book delights
the bibliophile although 1t makes
some people sick at the stomach. The
odor of the newly manufactured glove
in large quantities is overpowering to
certain sensibilities, yet 1t is not a
stencil. For a stencil in the true
meaning of the word we must consid
er the noses of our seventeenth and
eighteenth century ancestors. Marie
Antoinette lived amid odors SO vile
that rustics fresh from the fields
tainted from the first Whit, but the
I Queen did not mind them. One OF
N two of her ladies we're delighted will
these consequences Of bad plumbing
for that was the cause OF the stencil
they loved. The British Medical Jour
nal supplies details even more surpris
ing:
III The French memoirs of the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries are
full OF disgusting details Of the In
sanitary state of Paris, including thu
Louvre itself. The palace of thu
French kings was open to the public
more freely than the White House q
Washington is to the citizens Of thu
great Republic of the west. TakinI
into account the fact that the Gus
toms of the French people, as Of mos
other nations in the good old day
! were filthier in some respects thai
those of primitive man, the state o
the dwelling Of the sovereign ma
easily be imagined. The mere read
ing about these things almost make
modern reader sick. But probabl
among those to the manner born
caused no inconvenience and the RI
collection of the stenches Of tn
Louvre and Versailles In later day
was even associated In loyal breast
with tender feelings Of regret for tn
past. The famous architect Violet
le-Duc says that even in the unsavor
details that have been referred to tn
old tradition was revived at the Re-
toration. He remembered the steI
ches which pervaded the corridors {
Saint Cloud in the days Of LOU
XVIII. One day when mere DO
he visited the palace at Versailles
the company of an elderly lady VIII
had been an ornament Of the court {
Louis Nv. In going about they foun
y their way into a passage where the
n nostrils were assailed by the foules
u odors. The old lady inhaled thes
! with the deepest pleasure, eXclaimin
4 rapturously, All! that reminds n
of the beautiful past! It is well know
h that the olfactory nerve often retain
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