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an acquaintance of Mr. Smith, and the other, Mr. 

 Jewell, an acquaintance of mine. Mr. Smith asked the 

 name of my friend, saying he would like an intro- 

 duction. I assured him that it would afford me genuine 

 pleasure to introduce to him Mr. Jewell, who was truly 

 worthy his significant name. 



Only a moment passed when Mr. Jewell was free, and 

 I attempted to introduce to each other my two friends, 



saying : "Mr. ," (to my profound amazement, and 



their amusement, both their names escaped me.) At 

 this moment, Mr. Smith, anxious to relieve me from 

 embarrassment, pointing to himself, said, "My name is 

 Jewell." Then Mr, Jewell was amazed and I amused. 

 "No!" interposed I, "this man's name is Jewell, and 

 yours is Smith !" 



Mr. Smith, being something of a politician, appre- 

 ciated the immense advantage that a person with a good 

 memory for names, has over him who lacks the power. 

 Hence he made it his business to fasten in memory the 

 names of each person to whom he was introduced. This 

 he did by intently associating the most striking char- 

 acteristics of the individual, his name, the time and 

 occasion of the introduction, and the friend who intro- 

 duced. Thus, from the instant I uttered the name 

 Jewell till the moment of the attempted introduction, 

 Mr. Smith was intently associating the name Jewell with 

 the neat personal appearance of Mr. Jewell, his quick, 

 decisive, yet courteous bearing. Such was his admira- 

 tion for the man, and so impressed on his mind was the 

 name Jewell that, for the moment, Mr. Smith absolutely 

 forgot his own name, and could recall no other name 

 than Jewell. 



In like manner my effort to introduce the two friends 

 was interrupted not by a lack of ideas, but by a super- 

 abundance of ideas not desired at that instant. 



First was the abundance of ideas pertaining to the 



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