| e | j | e | v | e | |
| i | | i | ch | i | | i | |
| o | | o | g | o | | o | |
| u | | u | | u | | u | |
| h | | h | | h | | h | |
| w | | w | | w | | w | |
| x | | x | | x | | x | |
| y | | y | | y | | y | |
+-----+-----+-----+------+-----+-----+-----+-----+

You can make out "image of law," "my shuffle," "matchville," etc.,
etc., as far as you like to work it out.

[2] You can remember the equivalents by noting the fact that _z_
is the first letter of "zero" and _c_ of "cipher;" _t_ has but
one stroke, _n_ has two, _m_ has three. The script _f_ is very
like 8, the script _p_ like 9; _r_ is the last letter of four,
_l_ is the Roman numeral for _fifty_, which suggests _five_. The
others may be retained as memorizing these two nonsense lines:

Six _shy_ _J_ewesses c_h_ase _G_eorge
Seven great _k_ings _c_ame _q_uarreli_ng_.

Now, suppose you wish to memorize the fact that $1,000,000 in gold
weighs 3,685 pounds, you go about it in this way, and here is the
kernel and crux of Loisette's system:

"How much does $1,000,000 in gold weigh?"

"Weigh--scales."

"Scales--statue of Justice."

"Statue of Justice--_image of law_."

The process is simplicity itself. The thing you wish to recall, and
that you fear to forget, is the weight; consequently you cement your
chain of suggestion to the idea which is most prominent to your mental
question. What do you weigh with? Scales. What does the mental picture
of scales suggest? The statue of Justice, blindfolded and weighing out
award and punishment to man. Finally, what is this statue of Justice
but the image of law? And the words "image of law," translated back
from the significant letters _m_, _g_ soft, _f_ and _l_, give you
3--6--8--5, the number of pounds in $1,000,000 in gold. You bind
together in your mind each separate step in the journey, the one
suggests the other, and you will find a year from now that the fact
will be as fresh in your memory as it is to-day. You cannot lose it. It
is chained to you by an unbreakable mnemonic tie. Mark, that it is not
claimed that "weight" will of itself suggest "scales" and "scales"
"statue of Justice," etc., but that, once having passed your attention
up and down the ladder of ideas, you