Show EMERSONS MEMORY AT FAULT Had at Times Almost Entire Lack of Remembrance Emerson was waa a notable sufferer from the lie vagaries arlos of 0 memory His Ills bl I relates reales that lint he ho met tact him hulmn one day In iii Boston apparently at nt a loss for I something and asked him where ho was waG going fo To dine said Emerson with a ery very old and dear Mend friend I know whore whew she lives IfeR hut hail I hope she wont ask mo no hor her name and 1111 then them he Ime proceeded lo to describe her as ns the tho lie mother molher of or the tho wife of or the young man manthe time the tall tail man who speaks so well wall welland walland and amid so on until his Interlocutor guessed to whom he ho was referring Even the names of common objects often failed ailed him completely On one ono occasion when he lie wanted an umbrella la in he lie said saM I cant tell toll its It name but butI I can call tell its Il history Strangers take It away This falling failing of Emerson led lcd to lo a apathetic apathetIc pathetic scene when he attended funeral and remarked as ashe asbe aslie he lie gazed at the time coffin Ho Ito was a sweet ami ani beautiful soul but I havo entirely forgotten his name |