Do not be satisfied that these simple facts, and the use which has been made of them, has proven resultful. Ideas are only of value because of the profit which comes from their continued use. Prove their worth to your utter satisfaction and then by continuous effort make them a part of the mental makeup. Become thoroughly familiar with these principles and see that the child knows just how to proceed in the use of them. Remember it is the visual faculty you are cultivating for great future usefulness, not merely learning a list of words. Review these pictures many times, use the same ones, do not make new ones. Avoid the mistake of seeing only one object at a time; always see two, as the House and the Clock, the Clock and the Flowers. This causes one picture to recall the next, because the object appears in two pictures, or is associated with two objects. One by natural mental operations recalls the other. For further practice and development add to the list of forty words now learned, some of those following, or make a list of your own. Any words will do, picture them two and two and review them after you have added ten or so. List for Memory Exercise House Spoon Fire Brush Pail Clock Road Hose Salt Ice Flowers Pencil Box Paper Sugar Circus Picture Bridge Button Porch Soldier Window Bell Tooth Log Church Apple Grass Sack Pump Rocks Book Soap Letter Rope Auto Door Boat Ring Barrel Shoes River Towel Pipe Corn Dishes Dress Pins Street Board Wagon Hammer Cannon Spool Spoon Table Ball Ladder Penny Shovel Carpet Train Cotton Comb Leaf Fence Gun Bicycle Umbrella Shell Bread Moon Ribbon Chimney Bank Walk Curtain Coat Swing Hat Lamp Pepper Hair Sled Cow School Bed Stove Rake Bat Store Scissors Bottle Fish Tree Piano Chair Pie Nail String To Develop Definite Pictures Some persons have difficulty in making their pictures definite enough to avoid confusion between objects of similar shape. Overcome this difficulty by teaching the child a few lists of objects somewhat similar in shape. This will require making clear and definite pictures. The exercise following is a good one for this purpose. Visualize the following list and see to it that the pictures are definite, so that they can be recalled in proper sequence, either forward or backward. Exercise for definite Visualization Papa Girl Grandpa Grandma Boy Uncle Sister Brother Woman Mama Man Animal Lists