Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1883 — Curing a Bad Memory. [ARTICLE]

Curing a Bad Memory.

Your memory is bad, perhaps, Imt I can tell you two secrets that will cure the worst memory. One, to read a subject when strongly interested. The other is to not only read, but think. When you have read a paragraph or a page stop, close the book and try to remember the ideas on that page, and not only recall them vaguely in your mind, but put them into words and speak them out. Faithfully follow these two rules and you have the golden keys of knowledge. Beside inattentive reading there are other thing injurious to memory. One is the habit of skimming over newspapers, all in a confused jumble, never to be thought of again, thus diligently cultivating a habit of careless reading bard to break. Another is the reading of trashy novels. Nothing is so fatal to reading with profit as the habit of running through story after story and forgetting them .as soon as read. I know a gray-hairel woman, a life-long lover of books, who sadly declares that her mind has been ruined by such reading.—SL Nicholas*