Show 4 VAGARIES OF THE MEMORY psychologists have given matter much study but it la Is still much of a mystery the psychologists have given much study to the vagaries of memory which are among the most interesting of mysteries why do we forget certain things and remember others this question together with many others ot of a like nature seems as yet to be unanswered william james in the course of 0 a paper on the subject says something which we haiie haie tried in vain to recall will aft afterward erard kihen hen we have given over the attempts attempt saunter into tho the mind as innocently as it if it had never been summoned curiously enough bygone experiences will ketive after years of 0 oblivion often as the result of some disease or accident such a case was that of the young woman in germany who could neither read nor write but who was held to be possessed of a devil since in a fever she was heard raving in latin greek and in an obscure rabbinical dialect of hebrew pages and pages of her talk were written down and they were found to consist of sentences intelligible in themselves but not having the slightest connection with one another finally the mystery was cleared up by a physician who traced the girls history to the ago age of nine then he learned she had been taken to the house of an old pastor a great hebrew scholar she remained in this house until the pastors death it had been for years tho the old scholars custom to walk up and down a passage near the kitchen and read to himself in a loud voice ills his books were examined and among thorn them many of the passages taken down at the girls bedside were identified the theory of demoniacal possession was of course then abandoned |