OLD MEMORIES.
When mental decay is nearing the final stage, there is a tendency to revert to the thoughts and impressiona ofjformer years, which is probably dependent on the processes by which the substance of the brain is undergoing decay. The more recent formations are the first to crumble away, and the process not only brings to the surface, if we may so speak, the earlier formations—that is, the material records of earlier mental processes—but would appear to bring those parts of the cerebrum into renewed activity. Thus, as death draws near, men ' babble of green fields,' as has been beautifully said, though not by Shakespeare, of old Jack Falstafl. Or less pleasant associations may be aroused, as wo see in Mrs Grandmother Sinallwoed, when 'with such infantine graces as a total want of observation, memory, understanding and intellect, and an eternal disposition to all asleep over the fire and into it, ' she wiled away the rosy hours' with continual allusions to money.—R. A. Proctor.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2790, 31 May 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)
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165OLD MEMORIES. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2790, 31 May 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)
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