Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-31
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HGRsHBEnG.
A. B.. NJ. A., NJ. D. John Hopkins)

Every Organ of Your Body Has = Memory
of Its Own.
It may be set down as a fact that
a man as well as his creations are
the net products of his memory.
What is this wonderful associate of
life itself? What Is memory, where
does It begin, how Is 1t developed,
where does 1t end7
Professors Herbert Spencer Jen-
ninEs and s. O. Mast, of Johns Hop
kins University, have proved to the
satisfaction Of the whole scientific
world that the most lowly and
despicable creatures, whether Of the
type that lightly draws It's breath or
so minute as to lack a respiratory
apparatus--in fine, the droplets Of
Jelly, have memories.
Amoebae, white blood corpuscles.
microbes, invisibly small anima1cu-
lac, all have memories demonstrable
in any laboratory. DIR. Daily has
trained moths and butterflies, Pro-
fessor Zybinsky has taught cock
reaches and beetles to perform def
mite acts, Professor Yerkee. Of Har-
ward. with little electric battery,
sandpaper and similar devices,
proved that earthworms have excel
lent memories. Some flowers and
ferns exhibit the same phenomena.
Causes of Memory Tricks.
In brief, the animal and plant world,
according TO a myriad Of researches,
may be said Co be permeated by this
intanxibls, non-substantial quality.
called memory. Wherever there is
life, there we may safely look for
memory.
Memory may be said on analysis to
consist Of the accumulate images in
our tissues of the things Of the world
which we have experienced. When
any such perceived thing-or image
Is familiar to us, as previously expe-
rienced, we call IL q remembrance or
q memory. If images pop into our
heads that are neither recognized as
familiar or perceived directly and
actually as q new experience Of the
world at large, 1t is known correctly
as imagination.
In this fashion we have three kinds
Of images, namely, a fresh new thing
seen, felt, heard, seized or somehow
experienced for the first time. Then
we have an image that stirs up ia
miliar recognition, and finally an i'm
age wholly wanting in familiarity or
actuaiity.
To be convinced precisely of the
fidelity and certainty Of the memory,
we must bear in mind that the image
idea OF notion are equally good
names for image--is an /unmistaken
and exact representation OF the
original impression. Unless there Is
this assurance--and the slightest de-
feet of the muscles, eyes, skin, ears
and other senses precludes and inter.
feres with all possibility Of accuracy
--memorv plays us continual serias
Of Halloween tricks and April fool
jokes.
Health and Memory.
Your idea Of anything or any
event, seen or heard or otherwise ex-
perienced, cannot agree correctly
with the actual happening If your
stomach was out of order, your
throat inf1amed or If you were
grouchy or scared.
In other words. If 100 persons are
present at events of unusual or, for
that matter, the usual type, ninety
nine of them will honest, sincerely and
under oath, bear false witness with
out being aware that they do so.
This is in accord with the physiologi-
cal law that only one per cent. OF
persons are in the full bloom Of
mental and physical health.
When you speak of others as hav-
ing a good memory. you do not mean
that at all. Instead of meaning that
the man with a good memory" has
accurately perceived an event in the
full ramif1cations of all its details
and recorded 1t in his whole human
texture ready for reproduction at will
what you really indicate is that he