NOSE NOTES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 208, 19 August 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

NOSE NOTES.

’’ I have hundreds of perfumes in my shop, but I could easily distinguish them in tho dark,” so remarked the perfumer to a reporter It is the upper part of the nose that smells. The lining there is very sensitive, and brown in colour, not red, as in the lower nose.

“ Men are mor? sensitive to odours than women. Scientific tests have shown, I believe, that, while many men can detect tho smell of prussic acid even when there is only one part of the acid tt> two million parts of water, the average woman fails to detect the smell if there are less than ten parts of the acid.

“ Though the white man is much less sensitive to odours than the savage, a prolonged stay in a part of the world where smells are few puts a very fine edge on the sense of smell. Dr. Nanson has declared that, when returning from the ico world to Franz Josef Land, ho knew when he was approaching the assistant he had left there, by smelling his scented soap, long Jrefore he saw him! Ho could, too, when approaching the hut. have given an inventory of the stores there, as ho smelt everything it contained, separately and distinctly.”

Maid“n Aunt: “ Do you know. Dolly, it’ I .’ a very solemn tiling; to got married? " Dolly: " Vos. auntie; but I should think it wax much more solemn not to get married! ” Frost fgaz>r>g at new dwelling); “So ties is your last house? ” Bn?ld°r (sadly): “Yes; last, but not leased.”