New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-08-17
(By Sarah Addington in New York
Tribune.)

(By Sarah Addington in New York
Tribune.)
When Mary Jane is tiny baby she
is ,;iven a ball, which she balances
preca riously between pink wrinkled
finge RS, and thus does she learn to feel.
At he same age she is given a dose of
1pecac, and as she wriggles her ton
que and squeezes up her face her
parents cry rapturously; ooh see she
knows it tastes different!' At five
she is taken to symphony concerts to
develop her sense or music and car
ried to art galleries to see beautiful
pictures But where, oh where, does
Mary James little nose come in? What
sraiting does that important organ re-
ceiv.
Gratefully Acknowledged.
IF it is a nose to De admired then
it is merely gratefully acknowledged,
powdered and tilted whenever cooking
cabbage is to be detected. If it is I'M
duly large, or exaggeratedly carmine
or queerly contoured, it is deplored
and powdered and minimized. But
thet's all. And thus while four of the
senses are cajoled and urged along,
that fifth one, the sense of smell, is
utterly neglected.
And this is one Of the greatest griefs
Of Ann Haviland, artistic perfumer,
whose business it is to perfume peo-
pie md homes and theaters according
to treir kind, and to whom the sense
of smell is as essential as the other
senses.
TT is the neglected sense" she said
in her Fifth avenue laboratory, land
pertaining is the neglected. art. The
middle class women in the United
States are perfect bores when it comes
to perfumes. They simply have no
idea of what perfume can mean, They
want heavy, sensational odors that
stun the senses instead of slim ulating
them. They don't seem to get the
meaning, the feeling, the spirit Of
perfume. They buy all kinds Of
strong stuff and drug the air with it
and imagine they enjoy it. Why, they
don't even know how to apply their
nose to a fower!'
'TTow does one apply ones nose to
a flower asl1ed, meekly, with a pic
turc Of THE Woman and the Rose"
som, where back in my mind. Smell
ing flowers always seemed to be a
delicate and artistic process, not to
be attempted by an amateur. Here
were pointers
How People Trea- Flowers.
"VThy most people crush a flower
against their nose and then sniff for
dear life. But odor should be carried
by an air current, and the flower
t should therefore be held at a slight
dist;, nee from the nose. Haven't you
noticed that you smell better out in
the open air? Don't you know that
outdoor odors carry much further? An
Irdian can smell anything, you know,
because he merely stands up in his
can. e and smells. He doesn't jab
things up to his nose.
but more than that, people should
think when they smell. l tell them
to smell with the back Of their heads.
Perfume has an intellectual appeal.
Only most people confuse their per-
fun;e ideas rather sadly. For exam
pic most women won't have hello
+roye because it's lavender, and they
thilk that's aged. They entirely over
loo. the fact that heliotrope has other
E IA lities: heliotrope always give to
thinking people, not to old people.
Smell The Lost Sense.
New York women have spoiled
| their sense Of smell 1 think, by arti-
fetal living. Western women I find