Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1920)

A Startling Memory Feat That^u GanDo How I lesu-ned the secret in one evening. It has helped me erery day WHEN my old friend Faulkner invited me to a dinner part}' at his house. 1 little thought it would be the direct means of getting me a one-hundred-and-fifty per cent, increase in salar>'. Yet it was, and here is the way it all came about. Toward the close of the evening things began to drag a bit. as they often do at parties. Finally some one suggested the old idea of having everyone do a "sttmt." Some sang, others forced weird sounds out of the piano, recited, told stories, and so on. Then it came to Macdonald's turn. He ^vas a quiet sort of chap, with an air about him that reminded one of the old sa)ing that "still waters run deep." He said he had a simple "stunt" which he hoped we would like. He selected me to assist him. First he asked to be blindfolded securely to prove there was no trickery in it. Those present were to call out twenty-five numbers of three figures each, such as 161. 249. and so on. He asked me to write down the numbers as they were called. This was done. Macdonald then astounded everyone by repeating the entire list of twentyfive numbers backwards and forwards. Then he asked people to request numbers by positions, such as the eighth number called, the fourUj number, and so on. Instantly he repeated back the exact number in the position called. He did this with the entire list — over and over again, without making a single mistake. Then Macdonald asked that a deck of cards be shuffled and called oijt to him in their order. This was done. Still blindfolded, he instantly named the cards in their order backwards and forwards. And then to further amaze us, he gave us the number of any card counting from 3ie top, or the card for any number. You may well imagine our amazement at Macdonald's remarkable feat. You naturally expect to see a thing of this sort on the stage, and even then you look upon it as a trick. But to see it done by an evervday business man. in plain view of everyone, blindfolded and under conditions which make trickery impossible, is astonishing, to say the least. ON the way home that night I asked Macdonald how it was done. He said there was really nothing to it — simply a memory feat, the key to which anyone could easily learn m one evemng. Ihen he told me that the reason most people have bad memories is because they leave memory development to chance. Anyone could do what he had done, and develop a good memory, he ^id, by following a few simple rules. told me exactly how to do it. 'Our president compliment to tell him instantly fac And then he At the time I Bttle thought that evenmg """'f. P™;!* •" °*u°'\' of the most eventful in my life, but such tt "'what'^Iacdonald told me I took }o^"'^ In one evemng I made remarkable stndes t<^ ward improving my memory and it was but a miestion of da* before I learned to do exacth^ what he had done. At first I «n»*edmyself with my new-found ability by amazing people at (Three) parties, ^f^ "memorvfeat." as my frieiuU called it, snrel)' made a hit. Every one was talking about it. and 1 was showered with invitations for all sorts of affairs. If anyone were to ask me how quickly to develop social popularity, I would tell him to leam my memory "feat" — but that is apart from what I want to tell you. The most gratifying thing about the improvement of my memory was the remarkable way it helped me in business. Much to my surprise I discovered that my memory training had literally put a razor edge on my brain. My brain had become clearer, quicker, keener, 1 felt that I was fast acquiring that mental grasp and alertness I had so often admired in men who were spoken of as "wonders" and "geniuses." The next thing I noticed was a marked improvement in my conversational powers. Formerly my talk was . , ,^„ |,is „,„, Sashes to my mind, together with a halting and disconnected. I never '°"''' '"'""."j string of facts about him. 1 always NkeS to read hot things to say until the conversation »>" ""V; /*"„^ „,„all, forget most of it. Now I find it easy to recall then, when it was too late. I .•»"!'' /'"^''(..'^'""buI what I have read. Another surprising thing is that 1 apt and sinking thing. I . ""C'"^",' ,~ talking I <:»n now master a subject in considerably less Ume than now I can think like > fl»«b When I am "'""^K ' ^^,„„ p^ce Usts. market qnoUtions. data of all kinds, never have to hesitate for the "«•" ,»'°'° '"h,?*"! I can recall in detail almost at will. I rarely inake a expression or the ngbt thing to say. It seems ">» »" mistake I have to do is to start to talk and ■"'"""i' j", ,h° My vocabulary, too. has increased wonderfully. When myself saying the very thing I want to say lo ma»e ^^^^ I see a striking word or expression. I memoriae it urealest impression on people. ,i:,:,, ,„ remem and use it irt m. diclalion or conversation. This has It wasn-t long before my newfound =>'"'■"', '° '""X put a remarknbk sparkle and puHin, power into my coo •"^ii-.^rSl ,T,he riiht Hine versation and business leUers. And the remarkable part ".£V,i^ fhe a tentVon of o"r "f it all is that I can now do my day's work quicker and !3h.S?i He go" in °he with much less effort, simply because my mind .orb GbTtS calling me in when like a f!a=h and I do not have to keep stopping to l«.k fhe" biLi^JL'"' ir^e'l"' All'thi^is extremely satisfying to me. of course. But the busioes^ ,'" °'..y„u ,he best part of it all is that since my memory power pressed himself •» ■".'■ »°," g„, ^itracted the attention of our president, my salary T., I Jam o know while hos steadily been increased." Today it is many bme. Thl^otheT fellows annoy me greater than it was the day Macdonald got me ..u,e«ed by dodging out of the office m improving my memory. ?*jM .^^Hk. and saying 'I'll look it up.' " '".*.'... ^ , ■ ■^^ ^^^^^ ' . . . ^ I THAT Macdonald told me that erenffnl erernng Ipni-Nn that m» ability VV «" <^"' "''" '*" R""" Memory Course." I did. ,o remembe? h^'Jd n,e ' * That is how I learned to do all the remarkable wondeTfi^lv in ^ling thing, I have told you about. The publishers of the .iT !^rhJr neoolT mVHcu Kofh Memor. Course-lhe Independent Corporapon-are with .°'h" 1P~P'' J!"^^^" „ confident that it will also show you how lo develon a Ivi'en'a d1"u«!oS "A». S remarkable memory that the, will gladly send the Coar« 'L'l ^"nU^SckW '".rX '': '"Vr ne'edTo?:^' a single penny un.il vou ha,e ex_ '^^r of de^nUe fact, and amined .he Course and found that it full, bves up to al fiJi^f, usnaflv dom nllJ, the the claims made for it. Send no money. Merely ma.1 ^ T^e .nSHme^nin ihc couoon or write a letter, and the complete CourK oUiers. Time and lime agmn lue . instantlv. all charge, prepaid. If L^'of "hinkiSr^^^pTy T ;7ter e«mi\iat°or"ou deciiS; l^t yordS n"^ wan. ' I ™;winl.:.nM; recall to keep the Course, then return it and you will owe ?'T „.Sfiile, While l"m nothing. On the other hand, if you find, as thousand. „f„,;d;?f^ triumphs in 'f others have found, that the Roth Memory Course wiU .. • u. Ku resnecr I often fee" do wonders for you, then merely send five dollars in ed me on altvays bong able this f/spect. 1 olten leei m ,. he u^anted to *.««-." '?X Xr „'" wh'^S YoS^tove always -anted •» good memory. No yoo of the other men wno <»"»»■ . ■ Remember, you pay no money unbl yoa hold an their end in the argument becauje •>•" canno '^'^.^^i:^,^ that"™ C^irl: -Si benefit you. You ha« recall facts instantly. It seems as 'h?""* ' "J^'T. ""' evervtbing to gain and nothing lo lose by taking imme get anything. Every '»« .J. ";°" P." ^2 iTonS U -e?e diate arton So mail the coupon NOW before thi. clear and as easy to recall ■?«;""'"'??"«'' " "" hheral offer is withdrawn. teriK^v Wfore mr in plain black and wdhc. , . , „ „.„„ wVallTeai a lot about the importance of sound jud* FRKK EXAMINATION COrPON^^^_^^ ».*«» Pmnlc who ouaht to know say that a man cannot «••« — ■. — — ---<•- — - ^% tr^jircs^ s^ufd judgment until he is forty to INDEPENDENT CORPORATION fifty years of age But I have duP'or;?^ >» «»t 1 r,bll.l,OT .f Tk. I>d«pradr»t W»*It have found that sound judgment i, "o">'°# "JTS '".S Uepl. K-S71. Il» Wert Wth Slre»«. !««» ¥«fc. '*'eh"S'V,Si1,rv'?s're'^Li''o"«uid7udSeo"t° 'l Please send me the Roth Memory Course of seven each """V,;. "!^° but many times I have been compli les«,ns. I will either remail the Course to you within m°^^rf^? Sl'vi^g Ihe ird|^er;t of a man of forty five. fi„ ,|,y, after it, rcceio. or send you $S in full pa.vmen. ?"ke no p^^l creditor thi»-it is all due to the „f the Course. way I trained my memory. .. ,_, ' »•••••• natmr TuE-QF irf ooW a few of the hundred* of way* I ha^Vofited by Hiy'^ned memory. «»•»»«''*. Address I sufle the humiliation of meeting ■»»» ' '"'•"•"f M. P Clasnc 1-20 not being able to reeaU their namev fh. moment I Ke