lacrosse, because Soccer belongs to tiest girls in the ballroom and leave with a far-away look in their eyes. the lowest forms of life such as the plainer majority to make up Not for them a job of conse- The second type is a Cissie.
and Sunday School hen parties in corners.
quence. They flap through life in I am
speaking of middle-class mechanics
The Boors cannot read anything the belief that the world revolves youth; the youth to which I, unfor- classes.
and They approach
leave tunately, belong; the youth which,
the deeper than a thriller or enjoy any- around sophisticated dance records.
theatre than a They are always during the next few years, will be game in
And just to thing more in the
to be seen when sports cars. the most powerful voice in this show you what great boys they are musical comedy.
the tables are richly laden and the And they are country.
they shout as they race through the Their knowledge of economics soft lights glow.
be seen when the bill Boors
and
Cissies. streets, and they steal pewter mugs. extends to the wheedling of a new never to Think of all the middle-class' men from (or break the windows in) tyre out of "the old man" and their comes.
Work the ages
for of the pubs which once weekly risk re- conversation is limited to carburet know between
them is impossible. twenty and thirty and you'll not gular custom to serve them too tors, blondes and "blinds."
They get far too tired talking` Art The second type, the Cissies, are and Life, and.cadging free dinners, not so numerous, but they hang to work. round the neck like а clammy string of pale-pink coral.
you
find more than one in ten who can much beer. not be catalogued under these head- ings.
Great boys! They judge a man by his earn- I am one of the exceptions. I'm ings and a woman by her figure. not swanking. I'm merely stating a fact.
We'll take the Boors first.
always
Many people go to extreme lengths to excuse Cissies. They say Any woman is fair game to them They always have a headache at there
with is something wrong unless she is married.
are A married a party. They
sick them psychologically, woman is dangerous, is out to trap when they see a spider. When you I say that's rot. A kick in the Most of them have had a second- them.
shake their hand it is like a piece pants is all they need. I consider ary school, and many of them a And even if they feel madly in of dank cod. They shriek out when them a menace and a fast-growing public school, education. They go love with a married woman, and nobody else laughs, and when every menace to society. into a bank, a profession, or into received reciprocation, they would body else laughs they look disgust their father's business.
never stand up to her husband be- ed. On Saturday they wear plus-cause of what their fathers might say fours, enormous scarves and faces
Of course, being well fed and They call grown men "My Dear," so cocky you feel you could smack self-satisfied, they are usually good They are always wrestling with 'em!
looking. So their colossal vanity their emotions in public and play- They play Rugger, hockey, or drives them to fight for the pret- ing eerie disharmonies on the piano about them.
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WHAT YOUR DREAMS MEAN
NAN dreams, foretell one's future?
CIAN
which this mental kinks or obsessions
persist in waking hours are formed. Such obsessions may wreck lives.
long
The commonest dreams of I am certain that some of class are:- them can.
in a I am equally certain that (1) That you are dreams can throw light on one's straight street either utterly desert- health and character, that they ed or with a hearse in the distance; often contain warnings, and that oc- (2) That you are lost in an empty casionally they picture events which house containing a great number of are actually happening, perhaps rooms; thousands of miles away.
"
All imagery in dreams, however fantastic, is a memory of things ac- tually seen. A sunset, or a picture in the fire seen years before, may make the scenic background of some wonderful dream adventure to-night. I have never discovered a person born blind who dreamed, although
(3) That you, or the people around I have analysed more than sixty you, have shrunk to the size of tiny thousand dreams. You might think dolls; that no two would be alike, but this (4) That you are floating in the those who become blind have normal; is not so, for they could all be dis- air, and
tinctly classified into definite variè- (5) That all your teeth are fall- ties, each having a different cause. îng out.
dreams.
is
Repressed desires and ambitions often come to light when one sleeping.
Whatever is the reflection of my generation's influence on history, I, at least, shall have had nothing to do with it.
I am too busy being sick. And I wonder what girls think
CURED BY A DREAM
A patient of Dr. T. M. Davie medical superintendent of the East Riding Mental Hospital, Beverley, Yorkshire, suffered from a myster- ious illness which baffled special- ists for three years..
Finally the patient had a strange dream in which machinery, slime and a pond figured.
Dr. Jung, the great psychoanalyst, in- terpreted the symbals in the dream as indicating an obstruction to the flow of cerebro-spinal fluid.
This proved correct, and Dr. Davie was able to locate the ex- act spot in the patient's brain where the trouble was.
Dr. Davie's case was described in the "British Medical Journal." last August.
word you have said or heard, plc- tures of everything you have ever seen.
First there is the simple, but hor- This last is the most frequent ribly vivid, nightmare. This is dream known to mankind. Super- During the Silver Jubilee and at caused by digestive troubles produc- stitious people believe that it fore the time of the Duchess of Kent's
tells a death. Never believe that wedding I received letters from Some of it is only faintly record- again.
hundreds of women who had dream- ed, but any particular record can Next is the recurring dream. ed that the Queen or the Duchess be brought back when some idea Many people have experienced the came to tea with them.
associated with it enters your ac- tive daytime mind.
THE LITTLE FERN Delboeuf, a French investigator, dreamed that he saw a little fern and knew that its name was asple- nium ruta muralis,"
But when awake he knew no La- tin names of plants. He found that this fern actually existed, its cor- rect name being asplenium ruta muraria.
Sixteen years later, at a friend's house, he saw in an album of dried plants the asplenium of his dream with its Latin name in his own handwriting.
He then recalled that two years before the dream he had written at the dictation of a botanist the Latin name under each of the dried plants.
ing the flow of impure blood to a previously excited brain.
A child who overeats at a party is the ideal subject for a first-class nightmare.
By CLIVE ARNUM
The impressive church services at Easter inspire many religious visions, but those I receive are all from women.
Now the
e back
room of your mind still goes on working while you sleep.
same dream at intervals throughout
It adds up two and two; takes their lives. Each time it is exact
note of your health and any un- ly similar down to the smallest de
usual symptoms, sums up your tail. Usually it begins in Childhood.
likes and your “instinctive" „pre- The explanation is simple. When There is no pain in dreams; judices, estimates your chances of a the body is tired or ill any vivid sleepers endure major operations legacy (and the amount), of succes experience is likely to make a par- and walk off without any convales in any undertaking, faces up to ticularly deep impression on the cence.
defects in your character. mind one that will take precedence. And I do not believe that the over all other memories.
sense of smell is, ever experienced except when flowers are in
the room or are growing below an open
A nurse may say to a dawdling child: "Come along or the gipsies will get you"; or while standing on a bridge you may suddenly become aware of the dark, evil look of the river below:
Exactly the same physical condi- Such chance happenings, deeply tions produce the fantastic visions etched when the mind was unusual- associated with the drunkard's de- ly receptive, emerge later as the re-, lirium tremens.
curring dream that you are being There are other dreams, which pursued and cannot escape, or that have a purely physical origin, They you are desperately clinging to are caused by the normal function bridge or precipice above a raging ing of the body and are experienc- torrent. ed by most normal, healthy people.
This also is the way
which
bedroom window.
These two halves of your mind cannot function together, because if your daytime thoughts were harass- ed by the records of everything you had ever seen or
seen or experienced from the first days of your existence you would be a raving lunatic, incapable of coherent thought.
But sometimes in the flash of a split second between sleeping and waking the two minds function con- sciously together.
The really important dreams are those in which only perfectly nor mal events occur and the sleeper takes part. These may range from serious warnings by your sub- conscious, mind to actual telepathy. between some other person and yourself.
You awake with the memory of The subconscious mind is the a dream which, if properly inter- back room of your brain, where e preted, may save your health, your every experience of your eyes and life, or guide you to the fulfilment ears is stored. It is all there, every of your highest ambition.