Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-27

bookkeeper, mechanic, superintendent
or leader of men. The average man /,
| thus found to remember only one kint
Of variety of things that he saw oil
heard, While true leader such a:
Morgan, Roosevelt. Bryan or Kip
ling pays attention to many things al
once stamps them firmly in his mine
| and recollects them in the proper
! emergency.
! The duration of attention or tbs
time that it takes to tire your atten-
ton is better the greater you are. One
. of the reasons that Smith is a bigger
man mentally, commercially and pe-
litically is because his attention. like
his physical endurance, never seems
to tire. -,..
If you do not believe his attention
fatigues less easily than yours. take
page from an ordinary novel or
magazine. Then for five minutes by
your watch have Smith and yourself
run race in scratching out each 20"
and each &C. or each "R" and each
"a" Then see how many you OVER
looked each minute of the five minutes
as compared with Smith. whom your
unconscious envy eompels You to see
nothing in. You will be amazed thar
Smith overlooked few il any in his
lost minute, while each minute after
the first start. the number of letters
You did not cross out show an I'M
pleasant and inexcusabe increase
Whereas Smiths accuracy improved
each subsequent minute, yours grew
worse and worse.
Yet you Will be loath to admit that
this shows Smith to be more alert
than you. Vanity prevents you from
acknowledging that Smith. who you
knew when he was counting ridiculous
Sally Jones'" is any better mentally
than you are.
To test your powers of Imagination
the ability to become wonderful in
ventors, great engineers, architects,
financiers. poets, musicians, authors
and nreachers-there are many meth
DDS One of these is to gaze at log
fire and then tell of the faces, forms,
pictures landscapes, streets, animals
or anything else that you see there.
Or distribute splashes of ink on white
paper ard then gaze fxedly at it and
write about the pictures you see there.
Gazing into rock crystals makes some
people imagine all sorts of scenery
and events.
To test your will power. that is to
say your capacity for resisting the
Establishments of every third stock
jobber experimental psychologists
have devised numerous plans. One OF
the simplest ones is the force card
trick used by magicians and devised
by Keilar, the popular prestigitateur.
Here card, say the ten of diamonds,
is made prominent as the deck is
showed toward you. You are request
ed to take a card. cy the suggestion
and prominence of the particular card
ninety-fipe people in every hundred
will pounce upon that one card.
Another test of your susceptibility or
resistance to suggestion is to place a
series of two each of squares, circles,
stars, and octagons on the table and
write numbers, such as As, 81, "a, 81
and other double numbers inside them.
Pick OUT now the forms that are larg-
est If you are weak-wflled and do
not know this trick you will inyaria-
bly, pick out of each pair, the form
that has the biggest number in it, as
il il were truly the bigger of the two
forms. Yet the sizes may actually
be all alike or reversed.
Another way to test how weak is
your willard moralists, ministers,
crusaders and others who boast
of their strong will but who know not
what temptation is, have been exposed
as very frail with this tests to draw
circles. squares, triangles, rectangles,
crescents and the like on a large
square cardboard and then expose
this card to the eye for a few seconds.
Then mislead by suggestion the fana-
tics who deny that mere force of sug-
gestion influences them. If the lower
corner has a circle in it, say; "Did you
notice a triangle or an octagon in the
lower left corner" If there is an ab-
sence of weak will you will answer
neither" if you are susceptible you
will say one or the other.
The reason that honest people are
often considered immoral and crook
ed" by many of their acquaintance is
explained by this psychological trick
YOU can perform upon yourself ana
those about YOU. Have someone ar
range a small cup of milk, bottle OF
water and several inkstands, plates.
saucers and brick-a- brack figure IN
such a way that at given momehl
when ten or more of you are looking
all of the articles are pulled down by
an invisible cord or wire. Then you
must each go into another room anu
write a few hundred words OIL what
Won saw and heard. Only one, or per-
hans none. of the dozen or more VINO
witnessed the event will come any
where nearly telling the truth or what
happened. Some will describe irrele-
want things that they know, but whicn
had nothing to do with the case-in
this group fall preachers, teachers
moralists and many Women-otlie' ,
will write about why it all happeheo
and what such things lead to, others
will discuss the artistic and sclentihc
noints of the happenings and so on
Vet only one or. at the OUTSIDE TWO
will give a dispassionate, cotd ue-
scription of what occurred; all Tue
others added their wishes. hopes
fears. feelings. secret longings' staiia-
ard of morals, instincts of persecution