| Show 1 I 1 IA 1 1 0 I 1 II II I 1 1 1 1 By IRIS 1 I 1 1 I A magazine that came to our house recently contained 1 an article entitled How to Improve Your Memory in 10 I II I Days My husband left the magazine tactfully opened to the article on my bedside table My feelings were rather severely hurt until I stopped did it Maybe I I decided Its It's beC because use I have four brooms 12 packages of I 1 and eight cans of f Drano in my kitchen Maybe its it's 1 I the fact that I cant can't remember a phone number and cant can't cantI I find the list of the numbers I cant can't remember Maybe Its It's I 1 unsalted gravy y or triple salted potatoes or matched mis-matched I socks or unbalanced when checkbooks I haven't lost the I checkbook I I 1 I READ THE ARTICLE talking to myself a alot lot and began beganI 1 I to work at Improving my limping memory Right away I I II I began to get results My husband asked me whether I had I written a check for the milk and much more because he felt conversational than because he expected a coherent i reply I said The check was number it was for 1943 I II I and I mailed it at ten minutes past two on the sixth My 1 1 husband didn't say anything although I saw him sneak a look at our checkbook later when hen he thought I wasn't looking I II I The next day he said Do you know where I put Mr Stal- Stal I 1 worthy's telephone number I said Its It's at his office extension but hed he'd be home by now and that number is unless hes he's at the restaurant where he I II I hangs out The number there Is Again my husband husband hus- hus 1 band dIdn't say anything He just left the house knockIng I over a vase and colliding with the door doorjamb jamb on his way out I 1 I 1 BUT IM I'M GOING TO FORGET about the article on improved I I II memory if my improved memory will let me because its it's I more trouble than Its It's worth I forget things that are vital I while I concentrate on things that are not Like a week ago 1 Thursday when I started to go to the store I was committing I II I to memory the 18 Items I Intended to purchase and I walked I 1 out of my front door muttering about standing ribs black I pepper and jolly oily olly orange when my neighbor to the south I let loose a horrified shriek Where in time time she hollered I are you oft off to in your sUp slip I I 1 III I II II I That was bad enough but the Incident on the bus this week I was worse Ever since I read the article Ive I've been waking I up in the middle of the night thinking with vast astonishment 1 of the man who is said to be abl able to multiply two hundred I digit numbers in his head This to someone like Uke myself 1 who feels dizzy when multiplying by one Is an incredIble I feat I I GOT ON THE B BUS US TO Salt Lake City on the morning in I question trying with tight determination to multiply mentally mentally men men- 1 tally a number of three digits All the way to town I worked 1 on It When I got off at the bus station I felt I had the right I answer I was proud and happy or at any rate I was until I 1 I looked down at the suitcase I carried in my good right hand I Now theres there's nothing wrong In getting off a bus carrying a I I 1 suitcase always provided you got on the bus carrying one 1 which I had not Somewhere someplace there is a person who Is missing a dark blue suitcase with aluminum around I it and with a United Airlines tag on the handle I dont don't know I I what's in the suitcase Its It's locked 1 I 1 I AFTER ALL BROOMS WEAR OUT AND Ill I'll eventually use useI I I four of them Well We'll get the checkbook balanced once a year ear I and unsalted gravy isn't poisonous no matter how It tastes I As far as the three digit multiplication goes Ill I'll make out outI 1 I 1 tine fine If I can remember where I put the pencils I 1 I |
