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Show "MEMORY MAPS" ARE FREAKS Try to Draw Outlines of the Various Countries and You Will Be Surprised Sur-prised at Your Ignorance. A man and wife sat at the table at their home trying to draw the outline map of Europe, from memory, observes ob-serves the Ohio State Journal. They soon found that they knew little about it. They had been reading of European events for years, and yet when they cciae to putting their mind picture of the continent on paper they forgot their geography entirely. The man had read Anabasis and Homer In the original and yet put Greece between the Adriatic Adri-atic and the coast of Spain, and left Austria out altogether. The wife had Spain and France side by side on an east and west line, with Belgium to the north, covering both, while she made the boot of Italy a fashionable $10 gaiter. Anyone looking at the two maps could tell they were not of America or Asia, but of where, he couldn't say. ' Eat seriously, it is a delightful amusement and might with profit be indulged in-dulged in more. After one gets through with Europe, take the other continents and the countries that belong to them. And then one might come nearer home. It would be really sad to observe the ignorance concerning our own localities, locali-ties, but It would be amusing, too. Just for fun, have a company draw maps of Great Britain and Ireland, or Turkey, China, Kansas and Nebraska, Louisiana, Louis-iana, Delaware, etc., and much surprised sur-prised you will be to see how this old earth had changed since you trusted it to your memory. |