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If Pays to Remember Anniversaries, Birthdays
and Other Important Dates

"Does your husband forget your anniversaries?"
"Never. I remind him of it in June, and again in January;
and I always get two presents!"

If a man's memory is so poor that he can be led to believe
that he has an anniversary every six months—then he de-
serves to have to buy two presents.
Seriously though, the Peg system can be applied to re-
membering not only important anniversaries, but also im-
portant dates in history. It is also helpful for memorizing
addresses, prices or style numbers.
As far as dates are concerned, if you want to remember
people's anniversaries or birthdays, just associate the people,
or substitute words for their names, to the date, in this
way:— Suppose Mr. Gordon's birthday is April 3rd. If you
associate Mr. Gordon, or the word, "garden" to "ram," you
would remember it. "Ram" represents 43, and Mr. Gor-
don's birthday falls in the 4th month, on the 3rd day!
Of course every date will not be able to be transposed
into a basic peg word. You can do that only with those that
fall within the first nine months, and for the first nine days
of those months. All other dates will be a three digit num-
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