Show 1 THE TEE AGE or OF sometimes it seems that dial there is too much invention wo we receive a weekly publication from washington city tho the national review whose colu columns in ns ai aie 0 constantly filled with accounts of new inventions fron from safety pins pina to lying flying machines many of them are blessings to the world but now and then it seems that the inventive 0 anius of mankind is 13 carrying carry ins things alon along probably pro bibly bly not too far but too fast fasic when we WB note that a ray or of light may be concentrated so the tha operator can seo see right through ones clothes skin flesh and bones we are deeply impre sEel with it all but when we reflect that the general use of such a ma machine chine makes it possible for one to determine what sort of underclothes another has on whether a union suit or none at all and to see cc the female form div divine ne in defiance of apparel or modesty it begins to look as if science and invention had been rather be headlong adlong in t their h air progress the roentgen ray mey may have its uses for for surgeons and others disagreeable bryers into human anatomy but for general use we must say that people do not want their departments of the interior brought into the sunlight of publicity beauty is well known to be no more than skin deep and the tha most prepossessing specimen of the human race would be a loathsome object how flow very terrifying is the idea of having lungs liver and other essential parts of the human buman which are arc made to be used but not seen exposed to view this however is a tolerable matter beside the dreadful exposures threatened by the alleged in bention which will transfer thought without the trouble of using speech for that purpose thisina this is a threat to the peace of mankind the experience peri ence of humanity testifies that the check upon undue exposure of actual thought by the imperfect medium of speech is all too slight if the arrangement of electric currents has also been devised by the inventors so that our thoughts will project themselves on surrounding objects whether we will or no do complications ot of life will be inextricable suppose two men were veto to meet each other provided with the apparatus which will rill reveal exactly what each thinks of the tha other fights would be frequent and it be any time until speech would become extinct owing to the disposition of neighbors to never speak as they passed by it may be that other ani animals nials can read each others thoughts and that may account for their lack or loss of language another appalling 0 thought is the awful expanse of mental sahara that would be revealed by the thought photographer 0 the ordinary vacuity of biarl would stretch away on the tha picture plate like an arizona landscape without the cactus life would not be worth the living if people could know how bow little they think of each other or how little most people think at all the a age ae e and rae ra rage e of invention are all well enough in their way but they go out of their way the inventor should strive to improve conditions and make life better and living easier instead of fermenting 0 trouble exposit exposing 9 nake nakedness driess and demonstrating absent absentmindedness mi mindedness ceded ness The inventor should RO flow it ia not aty ij fur for him to he be a crank |