Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-09-21
A MEMORY LESSON.
Some ortho Beauties of a Scientific Modern sys-


was sitting in my room In the
Free Press building the other day,
working hard. with my feet on the
desk, when the doorway daFkened
and looked up. There stood, with
hand on each of the door posts, a
most disreputable looking specimen
of a man. sized him up instantly
as a drunkard and made upmy mind
that he wanted to work me for %
cents.
10 this l was wrong, as it shows
how a person should be slow in com
ing to an opinion about an unknown
felloW-creature. He wanted only ten
cents.
'Say, mister" he said, you don't
happen to have ten cents you could
spare?"
'You have struck it the first time
I don't"
''Say, mister haven't had any
thing to eat for twenty-four hours.
''Then why in the old Harry don't
you go and have dinner? They set
up some good meals at the first
class hotels in this town"
"Ah! do they? Now commercial
travellers have told me that they
can't get a decent meal in the city.
I'll halve the difference with you.
Make it , cents, boss. -
81 can't keep myself in lager and
so don't intend to tryto supply with
beer any tramp that comes along"
The fellow cody came in and sat
down.
Il see YOU are mistaken in my char
acter. have never tasted a drop Of
liquor in my life. / was at one time
in one of the best wholesale houses in
this town, but was ruined by my de-
sire for Improvement. l was often
warned that / was taking the wrong
course; but, alas! 1 did not see my
error until it was to late. Most Of
my comrades used to take a glass of
beer now and then and 90 to the
base ball games and be out nights,
but stuck to study, and you see
what / am"
/ was n little bewildered at this. 1t
seemed to be reversing the precOn-
ceiVed ideas 1 had on the subject, and
L meelIly allowed the fellow to pro-
coed.
Eyes, l am now an awful example
of the terriblefOlly Of taking a wrong
course. My beer drinking cOmpan-
ions are pointed to as model citizens,
while | am practically a tramp"
GLOW did If b0DDpO9''
"Well, the finishing stroke was the
memory lessons. had naturally a
good memory, and my firm told me
that if LEARNED to speak French they
would send me to Paris as their agent
there. 1 pitched into French and
was advised to take memory lessons,
as that was a great help in acquiring
u language"
and was it?"
'In way-yes. You know how
they strengthen the memory, 1 sup
pOse?'
mo. Never heard it could be done"
'Well, the first thing they do they
make you swear an awful oath you
viii never divulge any Ofthe methOds,
and then you have to sign a bond TO
that effect with Il heavy penalty at
tached"
"Then If were you would not tell
anything about it. 1 don't care to
know"
''Oh that's all right. I can plead
that / have forgotten all about the
oath. That is one Of the benefits Of
the memory system. You canforget
anything SO easily. Yes sir. Now if
YOU were to lend me 50 / would very
likely forget all about it before to-
morrow.
"You astCnish me-
'It's quite true. In that way the
system is very valuable. Now to
show YOU how the things works. My
girls name
"Oh, you have a girl, then?'
clad, my dear fellow; had"
Excuse me if L have brought up
sad recOllectiOns."
ut don't matter in the least 1 as
sure YOU. You see L can forget it
right away
'-Nell about the SYSTEM"
cob, yes; 1 had forgotten. What
were we talking about2'
'You said your girls name
was
Exactly. MygirI's name was
Here his brOws wrinkled up and he
said TO himself audibly:
"Girl-dress- dressmaEer- thread
-spOOl-cOttOn- cOttOn-mill- spin
ner-bObbin-bOb- Robert Robert
Roberta That's it. Her name
was ROberta-nice girl, too
"What was her last name?''
Her last name? Let me see. -
Here he fell into the same sort Of an
audible brown study and murmured:
ktRnherfa- Rnhnrt- Roll hnhli11-