Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1920 — Memory System. [ARTICLE]

Memory System.

A middle-aged suburbanite overtaken on his Saturday afternoon stroll by a young married friend whom he knew was taking a memory-training course, inquired as to the progress made. “Doing fine!” was the reply. “Fill your pipe from my pouch and I'll tell you while we perambulate.” But the last word was hardly uttered when he made a right-about-face and returned at the double on his tracks. In the evening the middle-aged man called to return the pouch. “Thanks,” smiled the owner. "You’d wonder why I left you so abruptly. Law of association —worked beautifully. The word •tobacco,’ followed by ‘perambulate’ reminded me of something.” “Important r “Well—yes. Don’t breathe a word to the wife. Td left the perambulator outside the tobacconist’s and the baby was in it I’’—Manchester Guardian.