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PRENATAL CULTURE 



Improving the 

 Memory. 



Specific 

 Memories Vary 



Laughter is 

 Invigorating. 



words get a clear, definite and vivid picture of 

 the experience, thing, truth, fact or idea to be 

 remembered. (3) Repeat the mental images 

 over and over, reproducing in detail every part 

 of the original concept, saying to yourself, "I 

 will not forget that." "I will remember this and 

 that particular thing." "I will recall the entire 

 image in all its former perfection." 



The student who gives attention to the train- 

 ing of memory and recollection will soon find 

 that he has a good memory of some things, but 

 not of others, and that he needs much more train- 

 ing in some lines than in others. For instance, 

 the memory of faces and places may be excel- 

 lent, but the memory of names very poor. In 

 such a case a good way is to practice naming 

 everything as you see it. Call every person you 

 meet by name. Place the names you would re- 

 call upon the furniture and things about the 

 room, and soon the sight of the thing will re- 

 call the name. In like manner, by associating 

 whatever is difficult to recall with something that 

 is easily recalled the memory of the former will 

 be strengthened. 



If prospective parents will make a practice of 

 memory culture, for even a few months prior 

 to the inception of life, and the mother continues 

 the training during the latter part of gestation, 

 they will usually be repaid by seeing their child 

 well endowed with this supreme faculty of mind. 



A jolly, hopeful, optimistic turn of mind is 

 one of the richest legacies ever bequeathed to 

 offspring; whily a gloomy, foreboding disposi- 

 tion is a sad misfortune. Modern psychology 



