The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-10

n OROTHY tells me that she has a
very poor memory, Shaking her
head as if the calamity We're some-
thing never to be remedied, she insists
that she cannot get her lessons or fix
anything useful in her mind because
things roll of il as water runs down
hill.
I must admit that have met people
whose minds were like sleeves. and
whose memories were pockets with
holes. and other people there are whose
power of remembering seems limited to
whatever is not worth while. But I
have always been quite sure that we
may have good memories if we choose
10 take the trouble 10 cultivate them.
Memory is a useful servant and if
treated like a servant and held respOn-
sibie, IL will not disapp1mt its en-
ployer.
There arc exceptional eases where an
Illness or a blow Oh the head destroy
memory for a time. If you have con-
cussion of the brain you viii very like
~ have To pick up your memory of the
past little by little till the fragments
are pieced into a whole. Fortunately.
the brain. Most OF you may rcmembCr
whatever YOU choose, If you have two
excellent qualities concentration and
attention.
4 good rule is 70 think only of one
thing at IA time and think of that with
all your might. If the object Of the
moment is a lesson in geography on a
date in history or a proposition la ge-
Ometry, think Of that and think Of
hing
Never mind about NiTginia's hat or
Bianche's new dress or the fetching
way in which EVangeline is doing M
her hair. Never mind the teachers
mood OF the day; whether she is cross
or agreeable is no affair of yours. The
thing you have 10 do is TO get hold OF
that date, that boundary or that prop
osition.
II you are taking music lessons. cul-
tiVate musical memory. This TOO,
depends almost entirely ON cOncentra-
u9n and attention. u depends some
Nhdt, but not wholly, uuoU the ear, but
II a girl chooses she may learn by heart
\ some of the pieces she can piay and
Ihen when tired father asks TO be en-
teTiaiHed Ia the evening. or she goes
10 visit her Aunt Fauny. she is not
obliged To carry her music with her; ii
should be in her brain and at her FIR
ger tips.
good memory for faces and names
Will make you very popular in society
when you are older. Memory Of his
KIND is cultivated by princes and royal
folk in general IL is always "a compli-
ment 10 be remembered. and there is
something very like q dash al cold wa
ter in the face when one expects TO be
remembered and finds herself forgot
ten.
Now that ] have said this let me ad-
wise girls to discriminate between what
their memories should carry By sheer
forCe of determination and What rhcv
may safely trust to q memorandum J.
- not at all ucrdiu that YOU bear I'm
your memory -he streets and numbers
the townships and counties of all yous
acquaintance. Commit these partic-
ulafs 10 an address book \ pad and
pencil NAV very properly assist YOU I'm
keeping the record of the days or the
weeks engagements. When once YOU
Dave written a thing down ana know
shat you can put Your hand on il AT a
moments notice, YOU need not try To
remember il 9s Wen The mcmoran-
dunn il sufficient
There are girls who never. seem able
10 remember their lessons. or TO remem-
Der appointments they ought To keep.