White owl says over and over
Who? What? Where?
WALTER—"Mr. Smith's left his umbrella again. I do believe he would leave his head if it were loose."
ROBINSON—"I dare say you're right. I heard him say only yesterday he was going to Switzerland for his lungs."
Rose, the garrulous domestic, can give you facts of history—international, dramatic, scandalous—right off the bat without a moment's hesitation.
"How do you manage to remember all these things, Rose?" inquired her employer the other day.
Then Rose came back with the infallible rule for memory training.
"I'll tell ye, ma'am," says she. "All me life never a lie I've told. And when ye don't have to be taxin' yer memory to be rememberin' what ye told this one or that one, or how ye explained this or that, ye don't overwork it and it lasts ye, good as new, forever."