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Show HojVv 'many,11 pencils are unintentional ly pocketed here and there and everywhere every day? Tho pencil with which this Is being written bolongs to some one with whom I visited ycsteiday. When I became conscious of Its possession tho man with mo said It wns not his property. Whllo planning with pencil nnd paper pa-per at an editor's desk I remember now thnt ho had somo yellow pencils and this Is n yellow pencil. You have heard about yellow Journalism, Jour-nalism, but such work 'Is not due to yollow pencils, as tho editor with yellow pencils Is not anywhoru nenr to yollow Journalism. Next Monday I am to call on tho editor ngaln, and If, will bo u memory exercise for mo to try to havo with mo and offer to him this yellow pencil. pen-cil. If I can do It I may bo ablo to do something else somctlmo u great deal moro Important Just becauso of It. For yesterday's call I had a special snbjcct to speak about and mado an offort to remember It by having It recorded on papor nnd tho paper ln tho pocket whero my most nllvo things to do aro carried. Moro than this, 1 told myself to bo suro and speak to tho editor about It nnd I tried to exert my determination determina-tion In a way to have Intuitive foro-thought foro-thought when I reached his office. Tho subject was remembered and tho editor said that tho way for him to do what I wanted him to do was to do It now and ho put the subject undor his most nllvo paper weight. Do mechanical helps help you remember? re-member? Can you tell yourself to do a thing nnd think at tho right time to do It? Havo you tnkou rawiory ex-crcbi'H ex-crcbi'H that woro of any permanent value to you? A mnn told mo this week that he coufd repeat n list of thirty disconnected words which ho inomortzud by association though be heard them but ono tlmo. |