Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1892 — HOW TO WHITE. [ARTICLE]

HOW TO WHITE.

If Toar Brain ia Weary. Day To nr ’ 7 Head On the Table. London Daily News. gLii... ,77 Dr. Lauder B run ton has made a discovery which ought to entitle him to the gratitude of all who live by intellectual labor. It is #othing less than the secret of how to hare ideas at wiiL One night, after a Itfng days work, this eminent physician was called upon to write an article immediately; He sat down with pen, ink and paper before him, but not a single idea came into his head, not a single word could he write. Lying back, he then soliloquized: “The brain is the same as it was yesterday, and it worked then, why will it not work to-day?" Then it occurred to him that the day before be was not so tired, and that probably the circulation was a little brisker than to-day. He next considered the various experiments qp the connection between cerebral circulation and mental activity, and concluded that if the blood would not come to the brain, the best thing would be to bring the brain down to the blood. It was at this moment he was seized with the happy thought of laying his head “flat upon the table.” At once his ideas began to flow and his pen to run across the paper. By and by Dr. Brunion thought, *’l am getting on so well I may sit up now.” But it would not do. “The moment,” ho contiues, “that I raised my head, my mind became ah utter "blank, so I put my head down again, flat on the table, and finished my article in that position.