Show Tr Transitional l 1 Surface Emerson Rives gives ves in one of ot his essay the tite value of ot change chance of ot c contact nt cl with wit the non In other words o or rushing brushing up ll against t the outside world The viewpoint obtained b by it give gives a different color to ones one's mental outlook outlook outlook out out- look presents th the ta facts ts of at life liCe from fron another r angle and is the mo most moist t ex ex- tonic 1 I know of ot To have hav come into town here to have ha met old olt friends cheery welcome glad to se sec seme see me mc to renew the topics of ot Interest years ago ngo and to have noted him anc an and noted that he top was noting me mc- mc what mental fun tun For Par instance In the Hotel Utah I ate In a chop chOI house and picket picked my teeth there I ran across a man mar whom I had not seen scon nor thought ol ot for for at least fifteen years years I I could not nol recall the name but I could his home hometown hometown hometown town and spoke to him with the prelude prelude prelude pre pre- lude Are Arc you OU not from 1 Fie He was That's the association ol or ideas deas My recollection warehouse had stored impressions 0 of him to which the only index I could momentarily momentarily momen momen- tartly find was that of ot town The name had gone I knew his wife he be was with his own wife but con confound coni found my mr noodle any name whatsoever whatsoever ever was absolutely beyond my power to recall Then a name of ot a aman aman aman man from that town flashed into my mind but lo to and behold that gol goV darned larned name was exactly wrong and intuitively I knew it So there I stood tood talking glittering and getting down closer and closer to earth arth as we talked on but all the time irae absolutely unable to recall his hisor hisor or r her name Two days later I got gott It t enough by naming the theman theman theman man as the wrong person person to a broth- broth In er I met a n young man on the street we wo were just about to pasa when pass when I noted his look of recognition and instantly I knew him well shook shoal lands hands with him with a n frank cordiality cordiality cordi cordi- he Instantly addressed me as Frank o and knew intimately all alla a out me Asked in detail things only a close acquaintance could I be-I j e expected to know introduced me meo meto to o his father but not net by name name name-as as my father tather only and to save m my lamed neck right to this minute I haven't been able to place him by byname name The workings of ot the mind are pe pe- culiar And what a tiny little place were we're In after atter all I was busily engaged subconsciously sub con with the affairs I had in hand band in Court Cour t when it came a e over ver me that I was looking at aman a man T I slimly dimly knew know So I let let it work itself out Slowly at intervals the would rush ush up almost flash into I Impression Eton sion and then die away before it could be grasped Ills His name who he was why I knew him and how would rise almost impress the detail and then thon escape like a dissolving movie scone scene It was as If a package was handed you the whole appearance appearance of ot which seemed to be familiar but before before be be- fore tore you could focus your our eye on the it was withdrawn But the impression in a whole was sensed So SoI I Ilet let it lie He subjectively knowing it would v could out and In the most te e fl d fashion Several days later with with- au u u. u any prompting that I can now real recal real re re- re- re cal al t. t I walked up to the man in a acourt aou oust court ou rt recess said Arent you rou Mr so and nd so of at such and such a place who veil t there about fifteen to twenty y cant cart ago Tho The whole thing was hen then as us vivid as it was absent before O Only y tonight In the same room anther an an- ther man asked me if It my m mother- mother n la r V did not die dlo on Sherman Avo Ave lIe le w us ILl the next door neighbor Lit tic tie world aint It Th Tit l se e e transitional t Impressions re re- love he f the dull gro grey give thought n a litter if for wit fit channel ai arid alft tl react on the physic r A man lUan la Is better hotter for the tho hang chang Id 14 contact FRANK BECKWITH |