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a room in your own home, or one with which you are familiar. Imagine that you are standing in the doorway looking into this room. Try to see it in your mind as clearly as though it were actually before you. Mentally examine every picture and ornament. If there be a bookcase, try to read the titles of the books in the order of their arrangement.
After you have made this effort of visualization, go to that room and view it in actuality. Learn how remiss and defective has been your observation. Note what and how many objects you overlooked, and where you were wrong as to the arrangement of the furniture, pictures and ornaments. Repeat this exercise, trying to make a more complete mental picture. Visualize other rooms in this same way. After a third or fourth trial you will notice an improvement in the clarity of your mental vision. When you have arrived at a fair degree of exactitude in recalling the room's inanimate furnishings, then people it. It is well to begin with just one person, let us say a woman. She may be seated, sewing. Picture her attitude, her manner of sitting in the chair, the style of dress she is wearing, the way in which her hair is arranged. Picture her face, her type of features, her particular expression. Note her actions, how she threads and uses her needle ; how she lifts and inspects the garment on which she is working; how she reaches for her scissors, in a basket on a table beside her. Do not allow your mind to drift — do not indulge in lazy reverie. Remember that in this picture of visualization you are working on an exercise which is a part of your work as a student.
ADDING CHARACTERS
When you have satisfactorily visualized this one character, bring another person into the room. Picture this second individual as you did the first. Make the two perform actions which you mentally command. Then bring in a third, then others.
Or you may visualize a kitchen. Picture all of its details. A serving woman enters through a door which opens into the dining room. You catch a glimpse of this latter room before she closes the door. Visualize the woman. Follow, in a state of clear, distinct imagination, all of her movements. She takes an apron from a hook, and ties its strings about her waist, after
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