The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-11-15
To Aid the Memory.
Many Ways by Which the B an Can Be Strengthened
and Impressions of Names and
EUents Retained.
EUentS Retained.

p%erionce / have found useful a sort
of mental Invisible tablet. associ-
ate certain names in a certain ord r
and write them on a slate that hangs
uron the wall of memory and Is as
plain to me as IL seen with bodily
eyes. Sometimes | associate an Incl
dent with a color, rs red, yellow, or
green. Sometimes a group OF inci-
dents are recalled by the name of a
place. Attention and association are
the twin factors IN boistering mem
Dry and making It effective. Deter
nine to remember a certain incident
or story. arrange II in your mind, la
bel st, set il away for future use, and
when you want it memory will deliv-
er it to you intact.
Of course there are always calen-
dars, schedules, diaries and memor
andum books. If you object to carry
ing much luggage on the road make
memoranda and consult them at your
discretion. The person of many en-
sagements may find it well to have
them arranged ~consecutively. where
they may be found at Gail. The wo-
mar whose visiting list is long would
better furnish herself with a carefully
kept address book than try TO remem-
Der every ones street and number
Committee meetings, correspondence
and business engagements may be en-
trusted to the safeguarding of the
written page. Those who keep a lit
tie book and pencil in the pocket or
the bag may as well not try TO re-
member that which they write down.
Discrimination is he part of common
sense. Why take the same trouble to
remember an unimportant trile as
an affair CT great moment, and why
undertake the double duty of writing
4 thing down and then remembering
Il without consulting the record?
Illness, imperfect vision, impaired
hearing and physical feebleness may
each ravage memory. A sign of old
age is the failure to recollect what is
happening in the present while mem
DRY is living in the past. No n is
old who lives wildly and eagerly In
the present tense, and who has no
difficulty in keeping hold of what is
going on in the active circle of the
day. When the loosened fingers drop
the thread of the present day and the
mind gropes in search of a missing
clue, then one has begun to grow old.
A young girl who had Unfortunate
ly Deer given quantities Of a certain
powerful drug as a remedy against
malaria, found herself at 20 unable
to remember anything. She said: 81
have no memory for a book that /
read or a conversation hat | hear.
Each new impression completely
blots out the one that came before it.
What shall ! do?" The advice given
her was to take a single fact or a
single incident each day and go over
and over that, not suffering it to
elude her, and fixing her whole at
it became a real possession. 1t was
slow work, but resolution triumphed.
and in the end her memory again
served her with faithfulness.
1t was, however, essential for her
to cut entirely loose from drugs and
to live in the open air, regaining by
healthful processes the physical wigor
she had lost.
Never be discouraged IL the mem
DRY is weak. Make up your mind 1t
may DO strengthened. Act as IL 1t
were already strong. Trust 1t and It
will not disappoint you.
copyright. 1905. by Joseph p. Bowles.)