Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-03

and admitted our age. As we expected
he rallied to our relief. Tut! Tutr' said
he, you're no more than two-year-old
Your memorys all right; It needs exer
else. gingering UP. that's all" But we
know better. Our memory's got she
Charley horse, that's what it's got. It's
stale.
When we were young and poor and
had to do our own remembering we
never tired Of picking up little odd bits
that struck our fancy to store away In
our head, Just as we cluttered our pock-
| cts with junk, to be used later to excite
the admiration or envy Of our fellows.
OF course, we couldn't always pull the
stored treasure out again when or as
| quickly as we wanted 1t, but In those
days 1t didn't greatly matter. Only once,
| we recall, as we bark back now, did a
freak Of memory cause us great distress.
We had been sent out on q hot August
| day with a basket to be filled with
| groceries, and butter kettle for quart
| Of ice cream. We remembered both er.
rands. but at the wrong time. We bought
the ice cream first and then went across
the street and waited in the hot grocery
| store for half hour or so, while old
Mr.. Mccarthy put UP the groceries.
| When we got home and had been prop.
! erly attended to we were in no mood to
| sit down to that soft ice cream.
When one is old and comparatively
| rich, one employs a stenographer or
something to do ones remembering, and
the unemployed memory OF the en-
ployer grows flabby. Put 1t to work again
| suddenly and 1t achieves Charley-horse
| as a matter of course And we knew
that was what was the matter with u.s.
But do you suppose dear old Bill
| would let us believe It? Not Bill. The
other day he sent us n book called
! "Loisette." This book" said the ac-
| companying note, has been borrowed
from an ambitious stenographer, who
| wishes to remember better. I. will, in
the ordipary course of events, suppose,
have to be returned to the owner. Your
earnest perusal of the chapter on 'Nu-
meric Thinking and that on Modes of
Establishing Connections on PIP. 3S and
III, respectively, will enable you to re-
member that the book is to be returned
to Yours, BILL"
We need no help from the outside to
remember to abominate split infinhive,
so we got off to bad start, for the "Nu-
meric Thinking chapter is subheaded
How to Never Forget Figures and
Dates" But we let that pass and dip
into the healing waters:
When my pupils have gained the quick
perception and instantaneous apprehen-
sion which always reward the studious
use of Inclusion, Exclusion and Concur
renee. they can, amongst other new
achievements, always remember and
never forget figures and dates.
The population of New Zealand ex.
elusive Of natives is 672,265. Bringing
the first two figures into relation with
the last two we have 81 and 65-a diff
ference of only. The two groups of
672 and 265 have the figure at the end
of the first group, and another 2 at the
beginning of the second group These
two 2's are in sequence (Concurrence),
and each of them expresses the difference
between CT and 65. Thought about in
this way or in any other, the series be-
comes fixed in mind, and will be hard
to forget
Dizziness, as DR.. Arthur Guiterman
points out somewhere in his works, is
also "a concomitant of age" However,
we felt our way to page III and read:
Make 20 of your own Correlations be-
tween faces and names Cor between
words and meanings), using some Of the
extremes given by me, and, as other ex.
tremes (words, etc, Of your own Sc
lection, orr names and faces of your
own acquaintances:
Peculiarity Correlation. Pronar Nap,as
Cross;eyed. .erossbow bowman. Mr.. Archer
Sombre sad. mourning. ,hatband. Mr. Hatton
Retreatins Chin reti..inr. home-bird MIR. Holmes
No. really, this is all very serious, and
it may be just the thing you need. But
we know what would happen to us if
we started this sort of thing. On one
of the crisp mornings due In this lati-
tude about the time we expect to get
back from our vacation up will come,
say, Mr.. Archer. Hello, old top" we'd
say to him, cheerily "how's Mrs. Cock
eye and all the little Cockeyes"
First thing in the morning we're going
to ask our helpmate to remind us to tie
string around our finger, so we may
not forget to promptly remember to re-
turn the book to Bill.
And you, dear old friend (whose name
we can't quite be sure of and whom we
passed yesterday upon the street with a
seemingly unseeing eye), oh, believe us,
1t isn't that our heart has grown cold or
proud, but that our memory has the
Charley-horse. hopeless Charley.borse!
AN anonymous correspondent malls to
us from New York long bit of verse
entitled You'll Find No Jew in Khaki"
We can't print the verse, but it would
give us pleasure to advertise the name
Of the creature who sent it to us.
IN comes a friendly but nameess
rhymester with a bunch of reminiscent
verses, of which these are a few:
I was reading the letter OF Rippey tonight
And II carried me back TO the days
Which only in memory now can live:
As travel our different ways
/ thought OF the times that happy and raw
For which you, no doubt, deeply pine,
When you lived with your folks on Spring Gar
den street
At Twenty-Five Hundred and Nine.