Show I U fl I II I PROPER SE SENSE SE OF OK I 1 WOW HOV n VV I SMELL MAY BE nI RE RESTORED TOnED TO HUMANITY 1 At At noted French port i I it Is la the custom for tor each herring i I boat to take on board a man whose sense of ot smell is so acute I that he can detect the presence of a II shoal of at herrings by its means and can even so Captan Cap Cap- Capo Captain o tan tain Irwin tells us in Fishing Fish Fish- In lug ing Gazette discrIminate between between between be be- I tween herrings and dogfish I J Such a D nose would be simply invaluable invaluable in In- valuable to entomologists engaged engaged en en- ens s In investigating Insect r- r scents work In which a keen discriminating nose is absolutely absolute absolute- r ly essential The experimenter first lightly breathes on the butterfly but but- or er Insect or else strokes It with a hair camel pen pen- cil Then he holds it with open wings close to his nostrils and S Inhales gently but is careful not notto l J tt to sniff A bewildering number s W of ot scents has thus been detested de de- tJ t tested e Naturally the power of at smell d i varies m much in different people and would appear to be particularly o I developed in the Chinese to whom Europeans are said to r smell like Uke sheep Efforts are I beginning to be made to train t F the sense of ot smell In little children chit chil 1 dren by making milking them guess the I names of at flowers etc from the scent alone and It will be Interesting Interesting Inter Inter- tJ esting to see how far tar it Is possible pos pos- i sible to educate this faculty which through neglect we havo have I permitted to deteriorate Whether 1 er a highly developed no nose so will willi i prove an on unmixed blessing must bo be left to the coming generation to decide sties |