Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-02-01
ALL YOU NAY.
THERE is NO SUCH THING AS A
"rIRED BRAIN"

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"rlRED BRAIN"
When a Man Thinks His Brain II
Tired, 1t Is Really His Stomach
That Is Overfed or Some Other Vi
tai Point That Is weakened.
Every man should have impressed
upon him the fact that the human
brain is capable of absolutely unlimit-
ed development. It can be developed
more easily, more permanently than
the muscles. Like the muscles, it is
developed by exercise, but unlike them
there is no limit to it's possible develop
ment and there is no age limit to the
growth of mental faculties.
If you go to a certain hotel In Chi
cago you will find at the door Of the
large. dining room q colored gentleman
who takes your hat, overcoat and nm-
brella.. He gives you nc ticket. When
you walk out again, to your intense
amazement he hands you your prop
erty, identifying you among hundreds
Of other guests and Immediately as
sociating you with the proper hat and
coat.
In a big store in Twenty-third street,
New York city, q small negro lad, IA
or Is years old, works for a living.
One day at that store this writer asked
for a book apparently seldom pur-
chased. Various dignifed white men
were asked about the book. They
thought that they did not have it, but
to make sure they asked the colored
boy. Without a moments hesitation
he pointed out a certain balcony on
the east side Of the store and told ex-
actly where the small volume could be
found. Every one Of the thousands
of books in that store was located in a
definite spot in that young negroes
mind, despite the fact that he probably
had seen the insides Of very few Of
the volumes.
The two instances quoted are not
unusual. They indicate merely the
most superficial sort of development of
one particular mental faculty, that of
recollection A more remarkable in
stance Of acknowledgements was shewn,
by Houdin, the French prestidigitator.
He could pass a shop window contain
ing perhaps scores of different articles,
cast 4 glance at the window as he
went by and enumerate without error
everything in it from that one glance.
| Some men learn q score or more Of
languages.
Yet the greatest development Of any
human brain has never taxed even to
the slighteat degree the actual capacity
Of the mind.
No matter to what extent you may
train your mental faculties, no matter
how mesh you may use your brain, you
will stm be like the man who has spent
8 or. 6 cents and has q million dollars
in the bank.
We are justified in believing that we
are. destined to marvellous mental
achievements in the future, when we
consider the instrument of thought
that has been given to us and which
is so little used at present.
A scientist named Meinert calculates
that the gray matter Of the brain con-
tains 60O,OOO,O0O cells.
That in itself seems quite complicat-
ed. If we only had n thought stored
away in each cell. we would know
quite a good deal.
But you must remember that each
cell is divided into several thousand
molecules separately Invisible.
Every one Of these molecules con-
tains many millions Of atoms. I'm
questionably each separate atom plays
its part in the working Of the brain.
Figuring on a very modest basis, you
find that your brain contains 18,OOO,-
600, OO0, 900, 1000, 1000 separate atoms.
The theory that the atom is an indi-
visible particle Of matter, which is in
dicated by its name, meaning uncuti-
BILE, is only a theory not by any means
demonstrated. There is no reason to
believe that there is any limit to the
| universe in the direction Of bigness or
l%ittleness. What we call an atom may
| be in effect an indivisible particle Of
matter or it may be a small universe
in itself. However this may be, don't
you think that with a brain organized
as above you ought to be able to devel-
| op a good deal of mental energy and
be quite free from any worry about
overworking the machine which has
been given to you to do your thinking?
When a man thinks his brain is tired,
it is really his stomach that Is overfed
or some other vital point that is depict
ed or overloaded. Keep the rest of
| your body in good condition, and your
brain will never feel any amount of
| work that you win be able to give it,
| New York Journal.
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