Part II: The Foreman 



DEVELOPING INTEREST 



Section I 

 ObsiTvinii Tilings 



We See but Do Not Observe. In New York 

 we used to have a young reporter in our boarding 

 house, who had just come from a small town in 

 the South. Everything in the city interested him. 

 n he came home at night he would keep us 

 amused and entertained for a half or three- 

 quarters of an hour by telling us about the things 

 I h he had seen while going around the city. All 

 the rest of us had bumped into the selfsame 

 things that he spoke of but none of us had paid 

 any attention to them; so, when he reported them 

 at night over the dinner table, they were as inter- 

 esting as though none of us had ever come in 

 contact with them. We used to wonder uh 

 was that we did not see these things when we 

 actually had them in front of our eyes during 

 the day. 



Why we see or hear some things and do not 

 see or hear other things is somewhat of a r 

 tery to the average man; and, unless we know 

 something about our powers of observation and 

 how they may be made to serve us, we cannot 

 keep ourselves alert so as to detect everything that 

 might in connection with our work and our 

 surroundings. 



