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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1912)
A The Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Page- (3 A IW- ,..'"-.1" "A girt swung high on cables receiving vibrations to her developed sixth sense by way of her hair and delicate instruments strapped to her ears the scientific Prophetess of the future!" 7fW -vA -5 yy A ' M-HtliW l r 4 M V ; r A A ml AA7 9fA Y ! . i 7 TflINllRESTING PREDICTION OF t Hiram Haxim who thinks that the Five we have are too tw m THE INCREASING COMPLEXITIES OF MODERN LIFE . . ' a t.JW mi t V VTA V y a Wtl $0?. yrfK 'y V l Ml Ci 1 & XX wrjr 'V X Y ,v . . :-r ;v: Miter ,A i - if i-f vrt.' v T T. v.. yxV , . St ' ' -'". ' v-AAyfi . i, A OA ' .-4 - , yy ', v '---r-.- .A- SHOEi Bat. X nv V ' Showing -the. X , V--J cupiots. E.AE3 andS. - , ' Mduthinvthch, v v-i. '.V.' 5. A A IK The Oeacle or Delphi. Mottjcs WCTUJF5.E, OF THE. PjrTHONXSS OWHEE Loiter POD. DHC WSS OUPPOSED Tb HAVE y( ' Ay'" 0 lesi a scientist tban Sir Hiram Muhn, the greatest gun Inventor Id the world and a pioneer of aviation, declares that man must develop a sixth sense In order to grapple with the com plexities of modern civilization. The sixth sense is needed to enable the aviator to perceive the air current that con stantly threaten his safety and life, to enable the submarine navigator to perceive the un seen obstacles and dangers that threaten him, to enable the automobllist to perceive the presence of unseen cars that, are coming round the corners, and to enable man to dis play new forms of sensibility In a thousand ways made nece&Bary "by modern civilization. We can easily conceive the existence of senses different from those now possessed by iman from, the example of animals and exist ing scientific Instruments. Sir Hiram Maxim, t in fact, was led to speculate upon the possi bility of a sixth human sense by a scientific Instrument which he had jiiftt Invented. This Instrument is intended to enable a ehlp to detect the approach of an iceberg. Vibrations quite Imperceptible to human senses are sent forth by this instrument. When they strike an iceberg they are echoed back to the ship, and strike a kind of dia phragm, which repeats' them in a form audi ble to the human ear, although otherwise they would be inaudible. Now, if this Instrument can perceive vibra tion imperceptible to man, wliy cannot tfte human ear be trained to perceive them? It can be provod that many animals are possessed of sense perceptions bo far beyond those of man that tbey almost amount to ad ditional senses. Dogs can recognize a scant which is abso lutely imperceptible to man. There is a kind of blind bat Which is the most expert fly y catcher on earth. Evidently it la able to tell the approach of flies by gome sense which la not possessed by man. The cat animals use the hairs on their sosea to detect the approach of enemies or the vicinity of obstacles in the dark. It may be argued that this is a development of the sense of touch, but if so it is a development entirely unknown to man. This fact about the cats jias led Sir Hiram Maxim to the idea that the newest sense of man-may be located In the hair. Apparently our hair has certain sense possibilities hith erto neglected. We have heard that the hair will stand on end from terror, and it is also said that it will droop from fatigue. If the new sense Is to be located In the hair, then it seems probable that women will possess it more generally than men. Men are too frequently bald or losing their hair. It is scarcely to be expected that a new eenee will show Itself in a part of the body that is falling into decay. The development of this sense In woman would be in line with an observed tendency ' of modern evolution. As brute force becomes less and less a factor and delicacy of sense perception a greater factor in human affaire, then the role of woman must grow relatively more important We can Imagine an exquisitely sensitive woman, with abundant 'highly vitalized lhair, occupying the directing seat in one of the newest scientific devices, which requires for its guidance keener, faculties than anaa has hitherto possessed. The services of a woman are. even now essential to the operation of a' telephone exchange, and they will be even more necessary with complicated machines of the future, requiring the perception of vibra tions beyond present human senees. "'Ul'