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· HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. "THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29,
1934.
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AMAZING FEATS
OF MEMORY
NO PROOF OF HIGH INTELLECTUAL LEVEL
BY THORPE BEVAN
It used to be thought that sticks in the mind, and, what Is memory lived exclusively in the more, it can be recalled without an brain, but modern science holds that leffort years afterwards, it is a matter of the whole nervous
How early in life does memory "In every nerve cell there begin? Some well-known men gave system.
Dr. Maudsley, their experience in this connection le memory," sald
Mr. Lloyd George In other words, we remember with some time ago. our bodies as well as our brain. said that he could distinctly re- Our hands, for instance, remember member an incident that happened how to grasp the knife and fork at nt his home in Pembrokeshire when
without
conscious he was two. Sir Robert Horne meals
said that he could not have been thought.
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A good memory in a useful thing; more than that age when a little It is not a sign of great in-sister was born, and he remembered but tellectual power. People of pour the fuss consequent on the arrival mental capacity, and even the quite well.
definitely
have feeble-minded,
Incidents that
before now diaplayed prodigions when they WITH
ZNA came to
more than
memories. This has been explain-three years of age were recalled ed by the fact that, having na by Sir Austen Chamberlain and capacity for higher thought, thoir Sir John Simon.
minds are free to grasp and retain
A friend's good memory опсе details which normal peopit would saved an accused man from convic- of Earlswoodtion for n grave felony, His forget. An inmate Asylum could repeat a whole page defence was an alibi. Te and that of a newspaper after hearing it at the time the crime had through once,
wne com-
nitter' he was sitting in his friend's
for
Suspension of five students because of alleged radical affiliations caused 2,000 students of the Uni. versity of California, Los Angeles; to stage a demonstration on the campus grounds. A police riot squad was called out and a campus officer injyeed when he attempted to interfere with atudent orators,
There are many curious napectacotta stening to his recital of n Workmen on board the vessel foreseen, this also beforehand, and it was impossible for anyone to hel of this business of remembering short story by a well-known author, are keeping a lookout for another hud erected his shelter in such a down there, and it was with a sigh and forgetting. People with the which he could repent word
deserter, who la understood to have position that he was supplied with of relief that he heard them go to -beat memories have said that they word, His counsel was very doubt-accompanied the German on his a.continuous current of ait, which another part of the vessel.
BOTTLE OF BARLEY WATER are able to call up a visual image fut about such a defence but deem-excapade. The two men arrived at round its way to the bottom of the
ed it best to put it to the test.
The soldiers then left the vessel of what they want to remember..
A noted blindfold chuan-player The man of memory was sent for the vessel together. but it is not cargo between the masthead ladder
apparently satisfied, and after the! How the man's plans nearly went cargo was completed the vessel put said that he could see in his mind's and told what was required of him known whether the second succeed- and the mast.
After a day at sen, eye the different hoards on which With a preliminary cough he ate la boarding it. If so, It is im-! ho was playing a dozen games once plunged into the story, and It possible that he can be alive, as he astray, and how after the vessel out to seb.
must He buried under tons of had left Arzen for four days and when the vessel was near Gibral simultaneously. These
mental was soon seen that he could repeat esparto grass, which formed the returned when he was on the palat tar, the man, after great difficulty. Images changed with every move. the whole. He went through the
of showing himself, is an interest-managed to climb out of his hid- vessel's cargo. Lord Macaulay, when he wan re feat again in Court, to the stupe-
The German hoarded the vesseling story. The vessel encountered ing-place and made his presence penting without a mistake passages faction of Judge and jury, and the from a beak he lind previously result was what barristers are fond exactly a fortnight ago, and be bad weather during the loading of known to the captain. fie alil had evidently planned his escape the cargo, and it was deemed ad wore his Legion uniform and Im- read, admitted that he had before juf calling "a galloping acquittat."
a long time shend, as he was visable to leave the port and an-mediately asked for food, stating his eyes an image of the page and i
equipped with a chart showing how chor out at son. The bad weather that he had survived the five days column containing these passageя.
long it would take a vessel to get continued for four days, and all with nothing but a bottle of barley out of French territory. When he that time the stow-away imagined water to sustain him. showed himself five days after that he was being borne further The captain immediately gave him
may
THE PAINTER'S GIFT
This is akin to what we venture to
"professional": memory. Just as the chess-player. can "see" the boards on which he I conducting various games, the artist retains and calls up at will the image of what he wishes to draw. Dore and Vernet could paint faithful portraits entirely from memory, and J. M. W. Turner did even more striking feats,
'ALBANIA AND BALKAN
PACT
Istanbul, Nav, H. Albania is expected soon to join the Balkan Pact,
His friends auld that after carefully studying a ship, he wonh go home and make a drawing of it with every rope and spur in theween Bulgaria and Yugo Slavin
right
pince. The professional musiclan often has a repertoire of hundreds of pieces which he can play correctly without notes.
Just as the eye helps the memory,
Following the rapprochement be
this would mean the complete Felimination of Italy's influence
from the Balkan Peninsula.
According to reports of the Tur- Wish press from Athens, Tsaldaris, the Greek Premier, on behalf of
so does the ear. It is much easier the Turkish and Greek spunsors, is to learn a piece of poetry by repeat-planning soon to undertake a trip ing it aloud to oneself than to Belgrade and to Bucharest in simply reading it ailently. The
jorder to pave the why for the ear, like the eye, has A momory of
adhesion of Ahmed Zogu's kingdom its own.
to the Part.-United Fress,
To enlarge upon this, Erasmus, Darwin and Professor Fenchtersle ben" agree that people who have been blind, for years never dream! about seeing, nor do people who have long been deaf ever dream about hearing.
One more curious instance of "eye-memory." A. famous author Lonfessed that he was hopelers at
reading his proofs fur printers errors and so on because, in spite of himself, his eye always anw the print as it ought to have been, and not as it actually was.
FATIGUE EFFECTS
Escape From Foreign Legion
GERMAN
Speedy rescue work saved the occupants while flames spread through shops and dwellings in Tongshan Road, Shanghai, recently. A scans of the burning block la pictured above.
French territorial watera, DESERTER TELLS HIS STORY
COMPANION MISSING
accreting himself on the vessel, it and further away from French food, and the crew showed great is understand that the ship was territory.
kindness to the stowaway. only about five hours outside of, On the fourth day the vessel re-f He offered to help in their work turned to the port to continue theịand was given a job in the galley, The may hid under bales at the loading, and the man was on the where he assisted the cook. Hie | mast-head, where space Is left point of leaving his hiding-plaeg fold the crew that he had served during the building-up of the ear when he heard voices. They bu four out of his five years in the Ko. He had climbed down into the longed to an officer of the Legion Legion. space and built the bales over and two gendarmes, and im- fie stated that another man had, himself.
mediately he realised what had accompanied him in his bid for
French happened. The
soldiers freedom, but he did not know what
NINE LAYERS OF BALES.
Like all other parts of the system,
had discovered that two legion-hadi happened to him after they the memory CHTI suffer from
The thrilling adventures of a
The next morning more cargo aires were missing and boarded the reached the ship. When he landed fatigue. Try learning a piece of poetry by heart when you are very German deserter from the French was built on top of him, and when ressel to carry out a search. They, at Granton he was still clad in the the operations were inally com- were asulated by the chief ofBeer picturesque garb of the Forelge tired, and the memory fails to re- Foreign Legion, who stowed away tain the lines. After the refresh-on board the steamer Ulmus at pleted about 30 heavy bales were and the chief engineer, and at one Legion. His belt, however, had thrown down on top of him. Thus time the five of them stood on top been lost in the grass, and there ment of a night's rest they are Arzeu, Algeria, were related when
the man was imprisoned under of the narrow shaft where the man was great competition among the easily committed to memory. In that vessel reached Granton.
crew and dock labourers to gain the same way an actor, learning a The man was handed over to the over nice layers of bales, and it lay hidden.
He heard one of the man say that passession of it. part in a hurry for a special per-immigration authorities, and it is was fortunate for him that he had formance, Hoon forgets it. A part expected that he will be taken to mastered after several rehearsals his own country in a few days.
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