Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1911 — Brain Twists [ARTICLE]

Brain Twists

Facts About the Curipus Working Your Thinking ; Faculties. 7Jf"7 ’ 7 HAVB YOU EVER thought Of bow your Whin works? Most people imagine that their Mates work aa a whole, but modern science says this is not so. The newest, theory is. that the brain is for all the world like a Mg department store. When ribbons am wanted it Is only the ribbon department that is concerned. Similarly your brain has innumerable tiny niches, corresponding to your various accomplishments and branches of knowledge, from billiard playing to reading French. .When you start to study a foreign language, or a musical Instrument, you are literally carving a new niche in your brain. The brain is like a big department store In another way, a store supplied with water pipes running to each department. in the brain these are represented by a maze “of Guy arteries carrying, blood. Just as the water pipes on one particular floor might burst and ruin the goods in that department. alone, so if the walla of the artery in the brain are weakened by poisoned blood, the Mood may burst through and ruin that particular niche. Many a man has risen in the morning to find that he has, say, forgottten how to lead. Or if the damage la less wide, be may have forgotten how to read his own language, and still be able to read any other language he knows: This might also happen as the result of an accident. You might loss the use of a small part of your brato, and yet have the rest of ypur faculties Intact Bren in the niches there are fine snb-dlvWona. The varibus pacts of speech for instance, are arranged In a language niche like books on a self. And just as the books on a shelf may be squeezed so tight that none of them will ctane out, so a tumor on a language shelf may jam all the grammatical parts of speech so that the patient is dumb. It is known that on that shelf the verbs are placed first, the pronouns next, the prepositions and adverbs next, and the nouns last The reason Is that our verbs are the things we learn first, long before nouns. A bamtoy sees long before It knows what it sees. The nouns that wo learn last, and so forget soonest, are people's names. That Is why .old people have such bad memories for names. ‘ Only a child can'teagh it A man with his utterance niche ruined struggles In vain to use -the reserve one. It Is too old to be taught But many a child has been struck dumb and taught its othefc brain. It has, however, to start all over again “Mamma” and “Dada,” even at the age of nine or ten. ■