Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-11

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9les ia the second viii the breadth q
your attention be measured. That +
to y ability To pay atsention u more
th9a Ga2. Trims II II time is thus esti-
mated.
4eearip@ 10 The result You are
fitted Ia be a book&eepef. mechanic
suierintca&ent. or leader of men. The
AYR. &c man is thus lplnd To remeni-
Der only one kind or ariety Of things
that Is. saw or heard while true
leader. s-Ech as Roosevelt. Bryan az
i<fpiiny. PAYS attention u many things
at once, stamps them firmly in his
mintl. ard recoficets them in the prop a
emarreacy.
vac duration of attention Or the
tine that II takes to ire your alton
tian Is better the greater YOU are. ON
OF lie rgaaons shat Smith is a bigger
| man mentally. morally, commercially
| and politically is because his attention,
| like his physical endurance. never
| seems IL tire.
| If you do net believe hat his atten-
ton fatigues less easily than yours
take page from an ordinary novel
or magazine Then Cor five minutes
/
| a race in scratching out each o and
each e or each "R" and each A.
| Then see how many you overlooked
! each minute of the i've minutes as
| compared with Smith whom Your an
/ conscious envy eompeis you to ste
nothing in.
You will be amazed to find that
Smith overlooked few, if any, in his
last minute, while each minute after
the first start the number of letters
YOU did not cross out shows an I'M
pleasant and ineXeusable increase.
Where Smiths accuracy improved
each subsequent minute, yours grew
worse and worse.
Yet you will be loath 10 admit that
this shows smith To be more alert
tnan 4oG. Vanity prevents you from
acknowledging that Smith. whom yod
know when he WAS counting that
ridiculous Sally Jones, is any better
mentally than YOU are.
| To test your powers of imagination
the ability To become wonderful liz
Ventors. great engineers, architects
fnanciers. poets, musicians, authors
and preachers there are many meth
1
fire and then tell Of he faces. forms
pictures. landscapes. streets, animals
ar anything else that you see there
or distribute splashes. of ink on Whit'
paper and then gaze 1iXedly at II an'
write about the pictures you see there
Gazing into rock crystals makes SONS
+ peopcl imagine all SORTS of grotesqu
a scenery ana events.
q 70 test your Will pow er that Is t
$ say. Your capacity for resisting tn
: Establishments Of every third stool
$ iobner. book agent. insul ee sales
c man or other enticing q r-eHperi
mental psychologists have devised M
= merous plans one of the simple'
&C ones is the force card trick used b
= magicians and devised by Kellar. IN
Is nrestidigitateur. Here a card-sa
y tho ten of diamonds made proml
e mont as the deck is showed toward Nel
q You are requested To take card. b
/ The suggestion and prominence Oh th
particular card ninetY-five people
every hundred will poance upon tia
= one card
Another test Of your suscepuhihl
L nr resistance to suggestion is 10 Pia'
J. series of two each OF squares q
cles. stars and octagons on the TAP
and wiite numbers, such as a., GIL
Il 81 and other double numbers. insi'
is thea. Pick oft NOW the forms til
rs are largest. If you are weak Will
re and do not know this trick you "
1t invariably pick out Of each pair
l. form that has the biggest number
IN it. as of it We're truly the bigger