Vol. V. No. 
20 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1907. 
32 Pages. Three Cents. 
HOURS WITH LESS KNOWN 
WRITERS. 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
In continuing these brief extracts from 
the wit and wisdom of old Thomas Ful- 
ler, | we note a few things that he wrote 
on “‘Travelling,’’ in times when a jour- 
ney from London to Vienna was fully as 
arduous an undertaking as a journey now 
from New York to India. Bacon had 
written on the subject in‘statelier phrase 
and with more afHuent learning, but 
hardly with more practical wisdom and 
shrewdness. Thus our divine discourseth: 
“*Travel not early before thy judgment 
be risen; lest thou observest rather shows 
than substance.’’ 
““Get the language(in part), without 
which key thou shalt unlock little of 
moment.’’ 
“Know most of the rooms of thy _na- 
tive country before thou goest over the 
threshold thereof.’”’ 
“Be wise in choosing objects, diligent 
in marking, careful in remembering of 
them.’’ 
His admonition, “‘travel not beyond 
the Alps,’’ reveals to us Fuller’s canton, 
the context showing that he had a low 
opinion of the morality and _ civilization 
of those distant and almost unknown re- 
gions. To him, as to Roger Ascham 
before him, who spent nine days in Italy, 
these half-Oriental countries were full of 
peril to the traveller. 
Like many others, Fuller seems to 
have found Memory a fascinating sub- 
ject; but he did not treat it in any phil- 
osophical or occult fashion; he says 
many good things without putting his 
readers on the rack to understand him, 
a diving into the depths out of our sight 
to appear profound. 
Of ‘“‘Memory’’ he says: 
“Tt is the treasure-house of the mind, 
wherein the monuments thereof are 
kept and preserved;’’ and he adds 
with a glimpse apparently of the yet fut- 
ure wonders of Phrenology, ‘“Philoso- 
phers place it in the rear of the head; 
and it seems the mine of memory lies 
there, because there men naturally dig 
for it, scratching it where they are at a 
loss.’’ 
He regards artificial memory, by 
which he means a memory gained by 
rules “delivered by memory mounte- 
banks,’’ as rather a trick than an art; 
but He hopes that an art will yet re 
found out, ‘‘wherein as yet the world is 
defective,’’ that will be “‘no more de- 
structive to natural memory than spec- 
tacles are to eyes, which girls in Holland 
wear from twelve years of age.’? What 
would Fuller have said to some of our 
cumbersome and irrational systems of 
mnemonics? 
The following are among many wise 
counsels concerning the use and abuse 
of memory: 
“‘Soundly infix in thy mind what thou 
desirest to remember, (lest) agitation of 
business jog that out of thy head which 
was there rather tacked than fastened; 
it is best knocking in the nail over night 
and clinching it the next morning.’’ 
(The writer approves the wisdom of this 
advice. ) 
““Overburden not thy memory to make 
so faithful a servant a slave. Have as 
much reason as a camel, to rise when 
thou hast a full load. Memory, like a 
purse, if it be over full that it cannot 
shut, all will drop out of it.’’ 
“*Marshall thy notions into a hand- 
some method. One will carry twice 
more weight trussed and packed up in 
bundles, than when it lies untoward, 
flapping and hanging about his shoulders. 
Things orderly fardled up under heads 
are most portable. (‘‘We trussed up our 
fardels to go up to Jerusalem.’’ Geneva 
Version 1560. “‘Who would fardels 
bear?’’ Shakespeare. ) 
Fuller had a high opinion of such use 
of note-books as Emerson and many 
other writers have made; he evidently 
kept one at his elbow himself: 
‘“Adventure not all thy learning in one 
bottom’’ (a nautical phrase very common 
a century or two ago, in the days of pri- 
vate ventures in trading vessels to foreign 
parts); “‘but divide it betwixt thy memory 
and thy note-books. x x x A common- 
place book contains many notions in gar- 
rison, whence the owner may draw out 
an army into the field on competent 
warning.’’ 
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CARL 
ABOUT SO.CALIFORNIA. 
Former Magnolia Young Lady Writes Inter= 
estingly of Her New Home in “The Land 
of Sunshine.”’ 
The following interesting letter from 
California is sent by Miss Helen I. Ross, 
a former Magnolia young lady, who went 
to Los Angeles a year anda half ago, with 
her mother. In another note Miss Ross 
tells what a welcome visitor the BREEZE 
is each week, how it serves to keep them 
in touch with their former friends back 
here in Magnolia and Manchester, and 
how the paper is sent each week to the 
Soldiers’ Home in Sawtelle, Cal., where 
there are over 2000 verterans. 
Los Angeles, Cal., May 10, 1907. 
Dear Readers of the North Shore Breeze: 
I suppose you have read or heard that 
the teachers from all over the country are 
coming to Los Angeles for the N. E. A. 
Convention, which meets here July 8th 
to 13th. We're going to give them a 
great time, too. ‘There is going to be a 
crowd of them, but we have enough big 
hotels here to take care of all that come. 
The N. E. A. met here eight years ago, 
and some of the people didn’t go back 
East again. A good many that did go 
back soon returned to Los Angeles. 
They didn’t like the freezing winters 
back there, when they had seen the roses 
and fruit and sunshine we have the year 
around. They call this ‘“The land of 
Sunshine,’’ and it is a good name for it. 
At this time of the year Southern Cali- 
fornia is prettiest. “The foot-hills are 
covered with grass and wild-flowers, and 
behind them stretch the snow-covered 
mountains. Itis like some of the pic- 
tures you see in books, only better. 
Some of the tourists say that Southern 
California is like a fairy tale, anyhow. 
You can start from the city in the morn- 
ing, in a trolley car, and in one day see 
the ocean, the foot-hills, and the moun- 
tains. You can have an ocean bath in 
the morning, and a snowball fight in the 
afternoon. Everywhere there are roses 
and creeping vines, climbing all over the 
houses. We always have the cool ocean 
breezes here, so that our hottest summer 
days are pleasant. 
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