The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-10
The Girl withthe Good Memory
BY MARGARET e. sANGsTER.


7 who still have what l call the wrong
/ kind of memory.
! II anybody has ever treated them
/ meanly or done something unkind or
/ said something they did not like, they
I are sure to remember that have
/ heard people boast that they never for
I got an injury. Let me remind you,
: girls that there is nothing noble in
! cherishing a grudge. The thing to do
] when anyone has Wronged Us, is, as.
/ soon as we can. to forgive and forget.
| We do not forgive unless we forget,
/ and the more complete is our forgive
/ ness the better We are and the more
allied to the Divine.
e
II Dorothy, conscious of "A treacher-
Gus memory, is in downright earnest,
/ she may without mach difficulty
! change il for good one The way 10
90 is 70 be very firm and stern with
! your memory, compelling it 10 obey
! you. do not believe very much in
tricks and rhymes and systems 4or
strengthening memory. You may, II
you choose try what you can do by
/ association. For instance, fix a date in
your mind by remembering something
about the room in which you were
I y
+ recited, OF the color of "A flower upon
your desk Certain dates in my mind
are associated with red and others with
yellow
You may connect an occurrence and
place IN the same way. If your
memory is not retentive as to rules and
phrases learn q certain number IF them
I by heart every day. If yOu had been
a girl when ! was. you would have
fastened in your memory as nails are
fastened in sure place, all the rules
and notes aud exceptions in the gram
mar, of one learned Goold Brown,
whose very name is dear TO me TO this
. day. How many summer hours, and
winter ones, too, 1 spent over Mr..
Browns leathered-cOlOTed volume. We
girls were obliged to repeat all the
rules in grammar and arithmetic pre-
ciseiy as they We're put down in the
book, and We did it,
The dullest girl did it and so did the
! brightest. Absolute accuracy in re-
peating the text was require Of every
one. Then we secited long passages
from Cowper's Task Pope's Essay on
Man and Millions Paradise Lost. We
learned pages and pages of history,
reciting exactly che words of the book
Very few of US hNd occasion TO com
plain Of poor memories because our
memories We're very much like soldiers
on drill or day labOrers digging bitches.
, We had certain amount 10 do, and
our memories were there TO help us.
/ recommend as a good exercise for
you some study Of current events.
Each morning read the daily paper
See what is happening in Europe, in
Asia and ia America. After you nave
finished reading the paper. take
blank book ana write down Id order
and in your own words the eist ~
what YOU have Gead. This viii aid not
your verbal memory, but what | may
call your picture memory. DO this
every day for 565 days and you will
discover that your memory is quite as
trustworthy as that o. anybody else
in the circle OF your friends
Another thing that you may do is
in another line. Memorize poetry For
Cowper substitute LOngfellow ana for
Pope take kipling. Choose anything
that YOU like but get by heart each
day from fOm to eight lines Of verse.
Gradually YOU VIII find your memory
q storehouse Of treasures from which
you may draw whenever YOU please.
Copyright, 1900 by Joseph 3. Bowles)