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PRENATAL CULTURE. 



Effects of 

 Culture. 



Tommy and 

 His Mother. 



Memory 

 Defined. 



was endowed with a meditative, thoughtful turn 

 of mind; but was highly impractical, a poor ob- 

 server, and learned with great difficulty. 



It has long been observed that children born 

 of studious parents learned much more read- 

 ily than do those born of parents whose vo- 

 cations in life require but little activity of the 

 intellectual faculties. So clearly marked is this 

 difference that any close observer of human na- 

 ture experiences but little difficulty, on going into 

 a school room, in selecting the children that come 

 from homes of culture. 



There is at least a suggestion in the brief dia- 

 logue between Tommy Brown and his mother. 

 As Tommy was dull in his studies and was being 

 severely criticised by his mother for not keeping 

 up with his classes and learning as readily as 

 did Willie Jones, to which Tommy replied, "Yes, 

 I know I am always behind, but you must re- 

 member, mother, that Willie Jones has very 

 clever parents." 



Memory is the power of mind whereby each 

 primary element, feeling, faculty and sentiment 

 retains its impression and experiences. Recol- 

 lection is the faculty of mind that calls forth 

 the slumbering images from the several store- 

 rooms of memory and repeats them as conscious 

 thoughts, thereby reproducing former experi- 

 ences, images, impulses, thoughts, facts and 

 knowledge. 



The power of recollection depends largely upon 

 the clearness and defmiteness of perception, or, 

 as some one has said, "The measure of attention 

 is the measure of memory." This is literally 



