Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-05

and interesting fact
to wit: that sleep
ing waking, dreaming talking, the thoughts
which swarm through heads are almost con-
stantly almost continuously, accompanied by like
of reminders of incidents and episodes of our
past. man never know what large traffic
this of association carries on In our minds
until he sets out to write his AUTOBIOGRAPHY; ne
then finds that thought is seldom born to him that
does not Immediately remind him OF some event,
large or small, IN his past experience QUITE natu-
rally these remarks remind me OF various things;
among Others this: that sometimes a thought, by
the power of association, will bring back to your
mind lost word lost name which you have not
been able to by any other process known to
your mental equipment.
Yesterday we had an instance e, OF this this Rev.
Joseph H. Twchell is with me this flying trip to
Bermuda. He with me on my last visit to Ber-
muda, and to-day trying to remember
when it was We thought it was somewhere in the
neighborhood of thirty years ago; but that was as
we could get at the date Iwlchell SAID that
the 1andlady in whose boarding house we soJourned
IN that ancient time could doubtless furnish us the
date, and we must look her up. We wanted to see
her, anyway because she and her blooming daughter
of eighteen were the only persons whose acquaint
had made at tat time tor we were travelling
under fictitious names and people who aliases
not given to seeking society and bringing them
selves under suspicion But at this point of our
talk encountered an obstruction: we could not
recall the landlady's name. We hunted all around
through minds for that name, ing all the Gus
tomary methods of research, but without success
The name gone from US, apparently perma
nently. We finally gave the matter up, and fell
to talking about something else.
The talk wandered from subject to another.
and finally arrived at Twichells school days at
Hartford,-the Hartford OF something more than
half century ago,-and he mentioned several of
his schoolmasters, dwelling with special interest
upon the peculiarities of an aged one named Oney.
He remarked that Oney, humble village school
master as he was, was yet a man OF superior parts
and had published textbooks which had enjoyed
wide currency in America in their day said re-
membered those books, and had studied Olneys
geography in school when l was boy. Then
Twichell said
That reminds me,-our landladys name was
name that was associated with school books of some
kind or other fifty or sixty years ago wonder
what it was believe it began with X.
Association did the rest, and did it instantly. l
said "Kirkham's Grammar!
THAT settled it. Kirkham the name: and we
l. went out to seek for the owner of it, There was
is like the earlier Garden of Eden in that everybody
in it knows everybody else, just it was in the
pent's headquarters in Adams time We easily
found Miss Kirkham, she that had been the bloom
ing girl of a generation beforehand she still
keeping boarders: but her mother had passed from
certainty, by help of couple of uncommon clrcum-
stances, events of that ancient time She said
had sailed from Bermuda the twenty fourth of
May, 1877 which the day which her only
nephew was born; and he is now thirty years of
age.
The other unusual circumStanCe-She called it
unusual circumstance, and didn't say anything
was that on that day the Rev Mr. Twichell, bearing
the assumed name of Peters, had made statement
to her which she regarded as a fiction l remem-
the young girl good by, and had gone fifty yards,
perhaps when Twichell said he had forgotten some
thing Il doubted it, and must go back When he
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