From this story the capitalized words are reminders for the names of the Presidents, as follows: WASHING ADAM JEFF MAT MONEY Washington Adams Jefferson Madison Monroe AD SHACK VAN HARRY TIE Adams Jackson Van Buren Harrison Tyler POLE TAILOR FILL PIER BIG CANNON Polk Taylor Fillmore Pierce Buchanan LYNX JOHN GRANITE HAY GAR-FISH Lincoln Johnson Grant Hayes Garfield ARTIST CLEAVER HARRIS CLOVER MACKINTOSH Arthur Cleveland Harrison Cleveland McKinley ROSE TAFFY WILLOW Roosevelt Taft Wilson Do this for practice and see how easily you can learn the names of the Presidents in their proper order and say them backwards and forwards. Studying Anatomy Initialing has been used by medical students with splendid results and has reduced the labor of learning to a minimum. The branches of the external carrotid arteries can be remembered by the following sentence: Some Try Large Feats, Others Prefer Superior Thyroid, Lingual, Facial, Occipital, Pharyngeal, A Simple Task In Memory. Auricular, Superficial, Temporal, Internal Maxillary. For practice make a sentence of your own from the initials of the twelve pair of Cranial Nerves, which are Olefactory, Optic, Motor Oculi, Pathetic, Trifacial, Abducent, Facial, Auditory, Glosso-Pharyngeal, Pneumogastric, Spinal Accessory, Hypoglossal. For example, Oh! Out Motoring Papa Took A Friend and Got Paul Some Heather. Others can be made, but the one which the child makes for himself he will remember easiest. BECOMING A GOOD SPELLER Poor spelling is largely a matter of inattention. Continual inattention becomes a habit and the child soon finds himself decidedly handicapped by his inability to spell correctly. This is largely caused by uncertainty. He has no definite knowledge to resort to, the result being doubt as to whether the word is properly spelled, and therefore uncertainty as to what change to make. To read a word carefully and to study the letters as they appear in the proper sequence will usually be sufficient to fix the word in mind. When you find that certain letters, or combinations, are bothersome, use the principle of exaggeration. Have the child write the word and exaggerate the letters that are causing trouble, making them three or four times larger than the rest of the letters of the word. For example, the word PRIVILEGE, often incorrectly spelled PRIVELEGE. Write the word correctly and enlarge the "I," making it several times the size of the other letters; now have him form the visual picture of the word spelled in his way: [Illustration] In writing the word hereafter you will find that the visual picture of the word with the exaggerated letter will come back to his mind and give the correct spelling.