Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1911 — CATHERED SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CATHERED SMILES

THOUGHTLESSNESS. Prof. William James, the famous Harvard psychologist!, was giving to an attentive class remarkable Instances of absent-mindedness. “And let us not omit from our catalogue,” he said, “the well-known case of John 'Burdpn Sanderson. “John Bnrdon Sanderson sat at bis desk in the University college, lost In thought.' It was noon. Beside the great but absent-minded student lay his frugal lunch, a sandwich. Next to the sandwich lay a frog, not dead, but motionless—it had been the subject of a curious experiment In the lecture half an hour before. “At noon the assistant left the professor meditating before the sandwich and the frog, and at one, when the assistant returned, the professor was meditating still. The sandwich was untasted, but the frog—the frog had disappeared.”