New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-15
NEW SYSTEM OF TRdINTNG THE MEMORY.

TO IMPROVE TIE MENTAL FACULTIES.

TO IMPROVE THE MENTAL FACULTIES.
DIR. Edward Pick Knight Of the Order of Francis
Joseph will lecture at Chicketing Hall tomorrow
afternoon and evening the Improvement OF the
Memory and Facilitating the Requirement Of Knowl
edger DR.. Flick is genial, kindly man, with store
of fun showing out Of his eyes, and those who near
him VIII lave opportunity not only OF learning
something, but Of being we'll entertained.
DR.. Pick believes with Alexander Balm that there
is hope for the most forgeti OF men. There Is no
need Of any one searching for his pencil high ana
low, while all the while It is safely tucked away
above his ear and, for to start downstairs 'o
mall letter which he has written is he says
a weakness that ought never exist, although many
men are fully that such weaknesses are Only
too common. The affirmation" he said to re
porter with merry twinkle In his eye, of Lawrence
Fries, that the seat of memory is In the occipu "non
organ may be strengthened by eating roasted lows
small birds young bares and such delicscies, whiie
moderate of good red wine VIII further s,inu-
late 1t, is rather taking one, but hardly nRey W
meet with corroboraon except perhaps, oy the
OF the fesh-pots of Egypt"
Memory, he said, not q unity. A man oouiu
| not strengthen his memory such, though the is'
mites OF the brain might easily be developed and
brought under control The superior power OF oho
man over another in recalling events or ideas was
tho mower of association. Memory was good or oad
I'm proportion TO the strength OF the original impress
sion It was an easy thing 70 fix ones attenHon Oh
certain thing cluster series OF associations ABOUT
Il, and then to reproduce a mental picture oi INC
original The men who had good memories were those
who made the deepest impressions In their Diah, a.
II were sheet of tin deeply indented would not DC
| messed fat again so quickly as one hghuS III
dented Again. the more dents made the longer INC
sheet would bear the impression. Therefore, "hon
mans wife tied piece Of string around his niger tnat
he might remember bring her yard OF Calico she
| was doing exactly the right thing The man might
stare at that bit Of string for hours wondering "ha nc
was 10 buy but the hldeous fact that he was 10 guy
something would stare him in the face, although what
| IL was he could not remember. The ASSOCIATIONS
clustered around the tying of that string would grad
| ualIy come back to him. He would remember SOME
thing she said as she went TO get the string Iheh
how she laughingly warned him, "a she tied II rouhd
his finger. not TO forget that it mcant-whatt why
| caco of course. There man leu rouho ny d
| string in the hands OF woman ,. -, o.,
DR. Pick believes that the strchEtneihnk vi ,s'
mental faculties Is simple process. HIS eNanlpTs,
therefore are always simple and Straightforward us
/ unte.bnical language Frightened by h ahusIn :
toucbes * In itself an example Of his theory Inv
more interesting he make an IDEA inc NUTS uc0PJ
| impressed VIII IL become on the mlnu. , oo,
! He brings to America many letters OF Ieoon',
mendation from eminent thinkers and writers anon
others Two from Edward TlTing, for many years mean
master of the Uppingham school Rutland, Englanu'
The first was written n 1867. al the Tune Nheh III
pick was beginning series of lectures al the souul,
The second in 1857, after DR.. Pick had ectured eio
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