Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1885 — Association of Odors. [ARTICLE]

Association of Odors.

Tbe sense of smell, p by detecting bad odors, may enable uis to guard against danger to our health. It may also excite pleasurable emotions and recall the associations of younger days. “The am 11 of violets, hidden in th> prr en, Pours ba k into mv empty soul and frsme The time when I rem -inhered to have b;eu .loyfnt and fiee from blame." i An instance is on record of a lawyer ■whose delight was to get within range of a farmyard. And why? His childhood had been spent amid the sights, sounds, and scents that surround the farm-house; and so the familiar ammoniaeal exh lations carried him back to the, green fields aud rustic pleasures of pis youthful home. The writer)himself met with an individual whom the ■ noisome smell of sulphuretted hydrogen gratified and pleased. His explanation was that many of his happiest days were spent as a student in a well known chemual laboratory, where certainly that smell prevailed to an unusual extent. A Frenoh author tells us of a young lady who loved beyond all perfumes the smell of old books. Perhaps, with affectionate solicitude,

she had been the constant attendant upon some old bookworm of a father or guardian, and hence the leathery mustiness took her back to days when, quietly happy, she seemed to recognize in the dusty tomes living and trusty friepds. '• 1 Many a person sick in the city has been carried back to the simple days of ?outh by the odor of apple-blossoms. 'he past corned back again in the odprs that live in inemory.