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Show Mental Powers' Often Keenest in Dead of Night MANY writer sleep with pencil and notebook under their pillows and a lamp at hand, so that they may dash off the Noughts niat cmo to them in the watches of the night. It is sold that Mary E Wilktns Freeman has a typewriter handy on an eSttenslaa spring, which she draws out from the wall on Its shelf and places In pOSUIohbsfare hi r if she cannot sleep. There is about these thoughts a clarity that docs not come with anytime thinking a s ireneAs of rlalon thjt approaches the Clairvoyant; Misfortunes .never loom -so full or realistic as after midnight; hut Joy and pleasure lose something of their glamour, thel.- evidence: doubt creeps In with them. A problem with which we have- wretlet In the daylight, weighing It with all our Intelligence. In-telligence. Is settled In a eertaln i ilmlv and Judiciously and after mature reflection Our deeision seems the right one. And then, suddenly. In the dead of night, that selfsame Issue bobs up before our mental lsion. wakes m s - us frcm a sound sleep and settles Itself In quite another way. in one great flash! A strong white light has heen turned upon the brain and has revealed there a conclusion of which we had no Inkling before. Thw pn asses of arriving at It are a closed chap-tor. chap-tor. The I.drvovant hraln has registered a result only And again and again It will bo founo to be the rlcht. the expedient solution. Memory, too. is peculiarly keen In tho silences between midnight and 4 o'clock In i ho morning. All cobwebs have been swept from the brain by the first hours of sleep; the body and nerve centre are singularly rested" there an- no noises to disturb and some subconscious power l at work within us. Perhaps the best illustration of the- phe-n. phe-n. m-!.. i to lo with the !os of a certain pa r of diamond studded cuff links, heirlooms, heir-looms, ami valued for many reasons. They had been worn on a Thursday to a dinner. The household had certain set rule and regulation, superintended by the mistress mis-tress of it. which minimized the chancs of losses In It The lo. of the links itemed. a i i i -MawMMMMaBiajjBHBtSjegajMaQaai therefore. Incomprehensible. Ths man remembered trfeetly puttim; the diamond studded cuff links away that night after the dinner; at least two other members -t the household had seen them put away Into I he safe and tho safr locked. He did not recall having had them on since. N'o one else could, not even his wife. who. like so many cood pouss. always got out his clothes for 'him. put In buttons, etc. And she knew- they had never sot taken out with the laundry. Vet they were gone. A month had p..-"d between that Thursday Thurs-day night's Wearing of them and the next occasion on which they were wanted. There . sreat excitement when tho cuff links wer rot found In the safe "Are you sure you have not had them In any other shirt since?" The owner was perfectly sure. So was everybody else, including his wife. Th K)lh w re iio:ill. d, ihe insurance claimed, a servant suspected and dismissed. " Two months afterward, when the loss had -e.aed to be talked about and the links given up as gone forever, the mistress of the house ' v y a a. v 1 1. 1 I awoke at dawn one morning with peculiarly peculiar-ly er.ir al-,t mental vision. "The cuff buttons arc In hi.- bluo silk summer sum-mer shirt, the one with the pn stripe'" she told borswlf. N'o one was more surprised than she at the recollection Her waking mind hud no memory of a blue silk shirt on her husband that winter. No- could he recall wearing It " 'Haven" had It on elnca last August!' he declsred Why should I "" Vet the cuff links wer in the blue silk shirt, and the shirt was In the chest of sum-mer sum-mer apparel in the storeroom ona of th f t places the wlfo had not thought to look lo- them. "Oh yes: cried husband when confronted. "1 had It on one nigbt after coming from the gym. when the nous was Infernally hot and there was company for dinner! You must have put It away youmelf and for-aotten for-aotten to Uk out he cuff buttons! It was perfectly e'ean " Tho wife had. But waking, she had absolutely abso-lutely ,no remembrance of the act. EE m |