Wichita eagle., 1888-06-14
A MEMORY LESSON.

Press building the other day, working
hard, with my feet on the desk, when the
doorway darkened and looked up, There
stood with a hand on each of the door
noets a most disreputable looking speci-
men of q man. ! sized him up instantly
as q drunkard and made up my mind that
he wanted TO work me for twenty-five
cents.
In this was wrong. as it shows how
person should be slow IN coming to an
nnin;on about an unknown fellow creature.
He wanted only ten cents.
s.Sav mister" he said, 'tyou don't hap
psn to have ten cents you could spareY'
lyon have struck It the first time. l
don't"
SAY, mister, haven't had anything.to
eat for twenty four hours"
saT'hen why in the Old Harry don't you
oo and have dinner? They set up some
GOOD meals at the first class hotels IN this
town"
..Ah! do they? Now commercial travel
ers have told me that they can't get
decent meal in the city I'll hafve the
difference with you Make ii i've cents,
boss"
4 can't keep myself in lager and SO
don't intend to try to supply with Deer
lQy tramp Jn<LI CDIDSS s4O1S.
The fellow coolly came in and sat down.
81 see you are mistaken in my caarac-
Ter. have never tasted a drop of liquor
in nv lie. was at one time in one OF
4be best wholesale houses in this town,
Int was ruined by my desire for improve
,op71t. I was often warned that | was
taking the wrong course, but, alas, 1 did
not see my error until 1t was too late.
Most of nv comrades used to take glass
of beer now and then and go to the base
bali games and be out nights, but l stuck
TO study and you see what l am"
I was q little bewildered sc this. It
seemed to be reversing the preconceived
ideas had on the subject, and weakly
allowed the fellow to proceed
Eyes. | am now an awful example of the
terrible folly of taking wrong course.
NV beer drinking companions are pointed
to as model citizens, while am practically
g tramp"
Glow did it happon7"
DWELL. the finishing stroke was the
memory lessons. | had naturally good
memory. and my firm told me that if 1
learned to speak French they would send
me to Paris as their agent there.
pitched into French and was advised to
take memory lessons, as that was great
help in acquiring language"
'And was it,"
Gin way-yes. You know how they
strengthen the memory, supposeY'
'.N0. Never heard it could be done"
"Wen the first thing they do they
make YOU swear an awful oath you will
never divulge any Of the methods, and
then you have to sign bond to that-ef-
feet with heavy penalty attached.
s.Then if 1 were you | would not tell
ANYTHING about it. l don't care to know"
;'Oh. that's all right. can plead that
have forgotten oil about the oath. That
is one of the benefits OF the memory sys-
TEN. You can forget anything SO easily.
Yes, sir. Now if you were 20 lend ME So
/ would very likely forget all about it be-
fore tomorrow.
.'You astonish me-"
.sIts quite true. In that way the sys-
ten is very valuable. Now to show
you how the thing works. My girls
name
''Oh, you have q girl thenP
Had, my dear fellow, had"
Excuse mo if have brought up sad
recollections."
1T don't matter in the least, | assure
YOU. You see | can forget it right
away"
Well, about the systern2"
oh. yes; had forgotten What were
we talking aboutr
You said your girls name was -
Exactly My girls name VAS
Here his brows wrinkled up and he said
to himself audihly:
Girl - dress dresSmaknr - thread
spool cott0n-cotton mill-sIdnner-bob-
bin-bob-R obert-Roberta. That's IT.
Her name was Roberta-nice giri. too"
What was her last naTne|'
'-IIer last name5 Let me see" Here
he fell into the same sort of an audible
brown study and murmuTed: Roberta
Robert-Bo -bobbin-cotton- factory
inill-Inills. That's it again. Mills is the
name; Miss Mills. Let's see: what did /
say her first name was2 Girl-dress-
dresSlnaker"
Newer mind going over that again
You said her name was Roberta.
That's it; Robezta-Ro7-
'.AIillsT'
YOU'RE right, Roberta Mills; awfully
nice girl, too. She lives in Windsor.
Know her?''
mo, don't"
well, she's lost to me forever. I
don't know that it matters now. have
rarely the money to pay the ferry fare,
and if / had it | might wish to spend it
otherwise"
q don't doubt it. How did the separa-
ton come GboutY
Memory system did 1t. suppose you
understand the system nowP'
81 can't say that do
''Well, you see, you corral any word
you want to remember"
81 have heard of corralling an animal,
but
Same thing, my boy, Same thing. You
get word up IN q corner. so that it can't
escape you. That is whore the system
comes in so good in learning French.
Now, for instance. surprising you want
the French for water You corral the
two words together. Water makes you
think of whisky. doesn't it9''
Natural combustion"
s.Of course, it Is Now whisky makes
you think of drunk A man who Is ad-
sicted to drink naturally neglects his
business and runs In debit"
Quite correct.
Then drunk recalls debt, sect Well,
4 man who is in debt owes everybody,
Doesn't hep
"If they are foolish enough to trust him
yes"
Very well. then, there you have it.
unk-debt-owe
he French for water. Easy IS rolling of