Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1901 — A Good Memory. [ARTICLE]

A Good Memory.

A bad memory in most cases might be more properly described as one rusting from sheer want of use. The fact is our brain’cells are always “ready to oblige,” but we do not give them sufficient encouragement in their well meant efforts. Naturally the Individual may cultivate a memory for certain details more readily than for others, but the general basis of all recollectlve acts is the same, and there is no department of human mental activity In which the motto that “practice makes perfect” bolds more truly than in the science of mnemonics. The view may be expressed, indeed, that we never forget anything presented to our brain cells. When we say we have forgotten, we really mean that we cannot find the mental photographic negative whence we can print off a positive reproduction.—London Chronicle.