Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1903 — A Good Memory. [ARTICLE]

A Good Memory.

A bad memory in most eases mighl be more properly described as one rust lng from sheer want of use. The fact Is our brain cells are always “ready t« oblige,” but we do not give them suffl cient encouragement in their well meant efforts. Naturally the individual may cultivate a memory for certain details more than for oth ere, bnf the general basis of all recol lective acts is the same, and there is ne department of human mental activitj In which the motto that “practice mgkes perfect” holds more truly tliar In the science of mnemonics. The view may b 6 expressed, indeed, that we never forget anything presented tc our braiu cells. When we say rre have forgotten, we really mean that we cannot find the mental photographic negative whence we can print off a positive reproduction.—London Chronicle.