Show DAILY APRIL 2 1895 ART OF remembering the la lluc a great each volume in A noted medical writer likens the brain to a vast library and each idea or name or incident to the volumes composing it says the new york commercial advertiser the memory be says acts as librarian tucks away each volume in some peculiar niche of its own now when wo call on librarian memory for one of these volumes he usually knows where it is and hands it to us instanter but occasionally he like other officeholders forgets his duties we call on him suddenly waking him from his nap perhaps and he can noi remember reme moer anere ne put the name of smith or jones or the little fact regarding the tariff or wives or something or other sometimes he finds it after a moments search and sometimes not for days but he keeps up a still hunt for the missing volume even while you forget all about it and some tune when you arc least expecting it presto there is the very thing you are trying to remember for instance somebody asked the writer of this paragraph the other day suddenly for the name of a lady and her daughter staying at one of the beaches near boston the name was a perfectly familiar one being that of an acquaintance but with alie question it suddenly vanished it was impossible to answer librarian memory was asked for it three or four times during the evening but it eluded his efforts completely and for a day or two the event was forgotten finally coming domi town on the electric car alie mind absorbed in other things the little librarian joggled our elbow here he is smithson volume shelf he whispered As usual when one ceases to want the thing it turns up ah if one could only change librarians when alie old one shows signs of weakening |