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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18468, 21 May 1928, Page 14

A distinguished scientist has given it as his belief that the taste of men is more sensitive than that of women. How is it, then, with the sense of smell? According to one doctor who made several experiments, superior acuteness was found in the male. Essences of the strongest smell were diluted in various degrees. Seventeen young men and seventeen young women, students of a large institution, were called in to judge. The men, on an average, detected one part of cloves in 88.21 S, the girls in 50.667; garlic, men in 57,927, girls in 43,900. In the second experiment of twenty-seven men and twentyone women, the result was more conspicuous. The former detected prussic acid in 162,000 parts of water, the latter only in 18,000; oil of cinnamon, men in 280,000, against women in 116,000; oil of wintergreen, in 600,000, against 311,000. Yokel (relating his experiences after visit to town) . “Nothin’ impressed me like the kindness of th’ bus conductor. Oi gets in an’* stretches me legs, an' .the conductor see as I’m tired “Why don’t ’e ’ve a bus to yourself?’ he says, as kind as you like.”