Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-31
CURING A BAD MEMORY.
A Mon Who Had the Habit Of Forget
ting and What He Did.

A Mon Who Hnd the Habit Of Forget
ting and What He Did.
The man held on and the writer went
started up street with a man. Il have for
gotten something"
The man held on and the whittier went
back into the Office and returned after a
few minutes.
"Are you troubled much that way?" In
quired the man as they moved off.
''Oh, only about a thousand or hfteen
hundred times day."
81 used to be that way myself, but I
cured it"
Tell me how you did 1t and I'll apply the
same remedy if it takes Leg"
'It win take more than that if you stick
to it as I did,
Desperate diseases require desperate
remedies" suggested the writer. IF had
been married man with the memory I've
got my wife would have been in the luna
tic asylum by this time and I would have
been in the grave, the victim Of her right
eous wrath. However, tell me the cure
and I'll undertake 1t If possible
WELL said the doctor of memories,
twenty years ago I had the faculty of
not remembering anything not directly in
the line of immediate duty. My wife es-
capped the asylum and the other dark
to do anything in the remembering line for
her, but had some of it to do on my own
account, and just couldn't Keep my mind
where 1 wanted it. l got into trouble two
or three times of almost a serious char
acter by my carelessness, or whatever it
might be called, and at last / set up a rule
not TO be broken, to attend at once to what
had forgotten as soon as it came to me.
'"rhen the force of it struck me. Many
and many a time I had to go back home
for something 1 had forgotten, and as it
was a mile from my office. it was no small
Job. So during the day if / forgot any
thing l went straight to my Office for 1t,
or wherever it might be where the forget
ting had taken place. A number of times
l missed trains because about the time 1
would reach the station I would remember
1 had forgotten, and back l would CO.
Once my wife missed train with me, and
for a week or two, ] can tell you, my
memorizer was as keen as briar, for she
talked to me in a way that 1 couldn't for
get.
Il did it again, though, and that time
she went off without me and l followed on
a later train. 1t was a hard school. but
was gradually improving when the climax
came. l had been called away to see a
lawyer in Boston in a will case, where
was to get about 5000 my share. pro-
vfded showed Up at certain time When
l reached the train l discovered that 1 had
left my 81 umbrella at my office I had
made up my mind to take that umbrella,
and when 1 found 1 had forgotten it,
Immediately put my rule into operation,
went back after it and took the next
train, twelve hours later. When / walked
into the lawyers Office twelve or fourteen
hours or more late, he threw up his hands
and almost yelled that l had lost my three
thousand by the delay"
The man stopped to take breath a mo-
ment.
WELL he concluded, ito make a long
story short, simply fell over in fit and
fairly paved up the carpet in my disap-
pontment, but it did no good. The money
was lost by adherence to a fool rule, and
! vowed l wouldn't follow it any longer.
And l didn't, but it followed me- and has
continued to follow l had taught my
self the lesson, and now j never forget
anything. even the most trif1ing, and my
wife would as soon give me a letter to mail
as she would give It to the postman."
Thanks said The Star writer, Il guess
l don't want to be cured that way"