Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1915 — Sense of Taste Comes First. [ARTICLE]

Sense of Taste Comes First.

Each,one of the senses is of vital importance to the composition of a perfect or well constitute 1 physical individual, but it is probable that if the sum of influences of each on great achievements of mankind could by any possibility be estimated it would be found that the sensory machinery of taste has led all of the other four functions/ From the days of Lucullus and Epicurus, centuries before our era, and doubtless for other earlier centuries the joys of the table, the bottle of wine,’ the bird, the boar’s head, the haunch of venison, all the fruits of the vine, the tree and the soil, were made to appeal to the sensuous nerves of gustation residing in that little member of the human anatomy, the tongue, making from it potential appeals to the intellectual, the spiritual, the esthetic and the more or less grossly carnal.