Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1882 — A Poor Memory. [ARTICLE]

A Poor Memory.

Without question, tlie memory may be cultivated. The habit of attention is one of the first to be acquired in working toward this end ; but there are other helps, such as the habit of order, and the advantage arising from proper classification, and last, but not least, the aid of the imagination, in making mental pictures. The grocer and the apothecary know the value of order in their business ; the bookseller, too, with his thousands of volumes ; see him step to the place in his store where he knows the volume you have been asking for should be ; he merely reaches forth his hand and takes it from the shelf. Wacth the type-setter at his work; you would think his fingers work automatically, as they take up from the box arrangement before him the exact letters composing the words in his copy. Observe the fingers of the piano player ; as if endowed with intelligence or.memory, rhe right key goes down at the proper time; it matters not what the speed of the movement may demand, there is no

hesitation. Now why cannot we accomplish with facts, figures and ideas what the type setter accomplishes with his type, the pianist with his keys. All that is necessary to do this is application and a determination to succeed.