Show THE MEMORY how I 1 low weed drilled lib lils so that it beeall Ile cani or of use to thurlow weed could recall with fratt great facility and accuracy long list s of names who were politician ciani in the cot counties I 1 i es wa when i e n monreo ran for president sixty years agai P you seem to remember aa as well C ti ai a ever a friend eaid said to him one day lay better than I 1 did once I 1 I 1 I 1 hope lie answered with a smile if f I 1 had not cultivated my memory memory I 1 should have been a dismal fai failure luc did you mako maka a systematic effort f or t to improve in the tile regular course co of affairs aff lairs 1 I had to adopt a regular method and I 1 hit bit on ono one that was very effective fec tive I 1 will tell you about it for the benefit of other young men I 1 sot ot married in 1818 when I 1 was working in albany as a it journeyman printer in III a few feir months I 1 went into I 1 business establishing a newspaper for myself and aume of ray my friends thought thou glit I 1 was cut out fur for ft a politician that is I 1 probably impressed my views strongly on those about me but I 1 saw at once a fatal weakness wea kuess my memory was a sieve I 1 could remember nothing not bing dates names name appointments faces everything escaped me i 1 said to my ruy wife catherine L I 1 r shall never make a successful politician for I 1 cannot remember and that i s a prime necessity of politicians A politician who sees a it roan man once should remember him hini forever 1 I recalled what had been said of henry clay that he lie could go round a room and be introduced to fiat fifty persons and then on min mingling 1 hinr with the company call every man b by his right name and I 1 though falso of the colored man icho officiates at tho the grand hatrack in the united states hotel at saratoga and who as the hundreds hun dreda of guests flock out of the dining lining room hands to each one oue instantly the hat shawl fan fin or whatever has been depo deposited cited t there here an hour attivo or two before my wife told me continued mr i weed that I 1 must train my memory I sa so when I 1 came homo home that night I 1 sat down alone and spent fifteen minutes trying silently to recall the events of alie t I 1 I 1 1 day 1 I remembered little at first now I 1 remember that liat I 1 could not then remember what I 1 had for breakfast finally I 1 found that I 1 could recall more events T vents caroe carue back to me more minutely and more accurately after ft fortnight or so of catherine said why do 10 you not tell it to me atwould it would be interesting and my interest in it would stimulate you then I 1 began a habit of oral confessions as it ii were which I 1 followed for almost fifty years every lvery L very night then be fore retiring I 1 told my wife everything I 1 could recall that had happened to me or about me durif during fl the dayi generally recalled the very dishes I 1 had for breakfast dinner and tea the people I 1 had seen seen and what they said tho the editorials I 1 had bad written and an all abstract of them the letters I 1 had sent and received and the very language used as near an possible pom ible when I 1 had walked or ridden every everything thin in in short that ila biad come within illy knowledge I 1 found I 1 could coul I 1 say my lessons better and better ever every year and instead of growing irksome son il i grew to bo be a pleasure j learre to run tho the events of the day lay in ill review I 1 ted to this discipline fur for a memory of somewhat unusual tenacity and I 1 recommend the practice to all who expect to have much to do with influencing men |