The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-17
HOW TO FORGET AND
 HOW TO REMEMBER.

If we know how to remember what we want to remember and how to forget what we want to forget we should be in possession of a fairy gift of good. In the lives of us all there are passages of which egregious fools of ourselves; now a be- loved. trusted one has broken our heart at least we think so. Again. we have passed through such seasons of poverty and anxiety that to recall them is a night mare Let us pray for the blessed boon of forgetfulness.
 At the same time work while ye pray That Is ever the way to have prayer an swered. When you are overwhelmed with bitter. torturins memories, simply think of something else. You cannot do it at one or two or three trials. but you can or two. To help drown bitter memories engage in some absorbing work and keep your attention fixed on the movements of your body while you work. So shall you drown out grief and bitter regrets and the memory of losses.
 But to remember the things we need to remember, the thousand and one little details of housekeeping. of business-that is another matter. Yet it. too can be achieved by the most absent-minded. for Setful woman that ever let her glorious childhood memory run to rack and ruin. Every woman who has a slipshod, worth less memory herself has let it go to pieces.
 Listen. Nature gave everybody a good memory to start with. child remem- bers all it sees. Its brain cells are fresh lures of events. There are millions of brain cells, enough to furnish a fresh one for every event in the life of thousand years.
 getting so forgetful!' If you make a statement, 1t stands. especially if you make It against yourself You make oth- CTS believe it; you believe it yourself in tp ha n foA you are eiter stupid ugly. sickly or for getful or anything else you would not like to be.
 Draw your mental powers and your thoughts in from wandering like Satan up and down the earth and center them on the duty of the moment. Do not let
 them go hither and thither like wild horses galloping OCT the plain. You can
 remember everything you need to to- If If through wicked, hurried, jumbling up of mental impressions you rave let your memory waste. stop it. It will help yotl to write in clear. larg letters upon q pla- card this: q can and do remember what ever l need to-" Then suspend that by a | ribbon of your favorite color where you
 will see 1t the first thing when you wake in the morning and the last thing at night Make a powerful, dwetermined ef- fort to live up to it.
 Next. force yourself to get a clear,
 sharp concept of mental picture of all things stay in the brain, and the taking of these mental photographs is the best
 means of remembering things. Make your pictures.
 Again. never set down upon paper what you desire to remember. Nothing ex- cept the mental scrap bag habit so many
 women have acquired, weakens the mem ory like written memorandums The race
 had glorious memory before 1t learned to write. If you have list of things to buy, set them down only in your brain.
 At first no doubt you will forget. We'll and good. The more inconvenience you are put to at first the less apt you will be to forget next time. So shall you keep your If you follow this system of memory | training, you will come by and by to feel as though you have been guilty of a sin
 when you forget anything.
 Jane Moses.