Show WHY of superstitions by H KINQ AN ITCHING NOSE p HE idea that an itching nose means that company Is coming or a stranger Is coming Is now merely a common and widespread superstition but it was not always thus there was a time when the nose actually announced the coming of company or a stranger not by itching it la true but by the exercise of those keen olfactory powers which it possessed in the days of our primitive ancestors scientists tell us that primitive man s organs of smell were so well developed in acuteness and kept sharp by constant use that his tory powers were echal if not superior to those possessed today by the lower animals remarkable for their gift of scent many tribes of savages retain to this day extraordinary pow ers tn this respect mr caveman was in all probability a rather high scented creature and when he went with a party of friends to visit the dwelling of mr it the wind was right that gentleman could smell him coming r long way oft just as many of the lower animals today snuff the tainted gale and become aware of the approach of their ene before they can see them civilization liza tion has caused the sense of smell to become atrophied in modern man but though the nose has lost its power U has retained its reputation by means of a popular superstition B by mcclura syndicate |