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138 she was forced to “wake up and take notice.” She was compelled to travel for a couple of years, in order to close up certain business matters of her husband’s—for she was a good business woman in spite of her lack of development along this one line—and in order to get around safely, she was forced to take an interest in where she was going. Before the two years’ travels were over, she was as good a traveler as her husband had ever been, and was frequently called upon as a guide by others in whose company she chanced to be. She explained it by saying “Why, I don't know just how I did it—I just had to, that’s all—I just did it.” Another example of a woman’s “because,” you see. What this good lady “just did,” was accomplished by an instinctive following of the plan which we have suggested to you. She “just had to” use maps and to “take notice.” That is the whole story.

So true are the principles underlying this method of developing the place-memory, that one deficient in it, providing he will arouse intense interest and will stick to it, may develop the faculty to such an extent that he