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Are You Neurotic?
. Do You Sit On People Who Do Things You Can't Stand
No
.or
or
that?
We've been told that most people, you mad? Yes are neurotics, not to worry about 13. When your friends visit you in being one, and, in fact, to be glad your room, are you given to telling if we are. However, no one has them not to disturb this yet ranked neurotica according to that, not to sit here their nuisance value or lack of it. there, not to do this or Exactly how much do you mean to
Yes
No your best friend? How badly would
14. Do you protest that this, that it affect him if you took a notion, or the other subject must not be suddenly, to go down to Tahiti for brought up at table? Yes a couple of years? Would you be missed? Or would it mean release not only for yourself, but for your friend as well?
No
15. Are there various odors, foods, music, words, etc., specific
pleasant to some people, which you just can't much public "to-do" about, if you abide, - and make
encounter them?
No
Yes
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 22, 1938
There are nit-wits, half-wits and Horowitz, but neurotics have never before been fractionally classified. Here is an opportunity for you to determine for yourself (and to yourself) just how great a grater-ly correct your friends if they use janitors, super-intendents, or other your friends or acquaintances who 16. Do you more or less constant- departments, head waiters, deans, 25. Are there two or more of on-other-people's-nerves . you are. a phrase, a word or a pronuncia- officials about the actions of other have some mannerism, or way, or Merely answer the 25 questions; tion which you consider erroneous? people, or things, which distract habit,
then consult the foot of this article on how to score.
START HERE!
1. Do you frequently say," simply can't stand" this, that the other thing? Yes No
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No
17. When visiting others' homes are you impelled to rearrange orna- ments, furniture, etc.? Yes "INO
or
you?
Yes
Νο 21. Do you frequently regard yourself as slighted or insulted or annoyed or discourteously treated by others? Yes
• No known for asking or laugh so noise?
Yes
you?
that grates on
No HOW TO-SCORE The manner in which you have answered the questions determine just how much, of a neurotic nuis- 22. Are you
ance you are. Merely multiply the others not to speak
number of "yes" answers by 4. loud, or make so much
If you have a total of between 85 Yes
No
and 100, you may consider yourself 23. Are you known, at a gather-Neurotic-Nutty. If you total up to ing, to be prone to announcing what between 60 and 85 you are a Neuro- 19. Do you request others to stop you don't like, won't haye, tic. Nuisance... swinging a foot, tapping with a can't endure, don't enjoy, pencil, munching food, humming or 'must not be asked to do? Yes same other motion or noise, because it No
"annoys"
2. Have you an uncontrollable desire to "fix" at once some small matter that annoys you, or to stop other people fom doing something that distracts you? Yes
No
3. Can you sleep in the room with an alarm clock?
Yes
No
4. Are you devastated if a neigh-
18. Do you ask others to shut off radios, cease conversation, stop rustling newspapers, tip-toe about, muffle the telephone, etc., when you wish to take a nap, even in another room? Yes
No
No
.
you?
Yes
•
or
To be just Plain Neurotic, you need only to have marked yourself between 40 and 60. 25 to 40 is Skirt-
If (goody-goody), you have scored below 25, you are merely normal.
24. Do you frequently complaining. On Neurosis. that it is too hot of too cold 20. Are you given considerably in the room?
Yes bour comes home singing, at about to complaining to health or police | No sunrise? Yes
No
5. Must you rise in the dead of
a bitter cold night' to adjust a. rattling window or shade or door another part of the dorm?
No
in
Yes
6. Are you moved to speak to people who are frequently cough- ingh behind you in the theatre? Yea
No
Smart Talk
same colour will A black straw
Lifting your wardrobe and your corsage of the spirits from a wintry mood to one smartly accent it.
of new season lightness won't be hat with a bright red quill will look 7. Do you feel a terrific urge to either a big, nor an expensive task twice
as chic if you tell the speaker
wear red to stop if you practice all the little wiles carnations on both black lapels. fumbling his watchchain while of fashion newly created. Artful he lectures, so you can concentrate? use Yes
No
No
WORTH NOTING
Wash your linoleum with thin hot starch. It forms a clear gloss to which dirt will not stick and pro- tects surface making it stay clean,
*
Did you know that cotton-wool, if kept in a warm atmosphere such as an airing cupboard, will swell to twice its size? The best way is to as-keep it in a pillow-case to keep it
clean.
Pictures that hang should have a thumb tack placed in each lower corner next to the wall. This holds of colour can achieve un- A frothy, white lace blouse, add the picture away from wall and pre- believably striking effects. A sub-ed to your sleek, black tailleur, im-vents the dirty spot that usually 8. Must you, positively, fix that the use of accessories can drama-maculate white gloves, a gardenia shows when picture is removed. slightly crooked tie of your escort, tise a whole costume. A bit of and a shiny, black straw hat may on the way
to а dance? daring and originality can turn the sound classic, but nothing will Yes
trick of making an arrestingly chic faster create the illusion that 9. Do you complain quite fre- outfit from an ordinary one, if you spring is smartly here. quently to the person in
charge keep your eyes, your ears and your or somebody, about zest fro dressing smartly about Any bride's trousseau will
- bed. is made? [you?
sume new glamour if she adds a Suede lapels on your suit to white satin nightie with wide you demand
of all match ́exactly; your and sundry that
new suede shoulder straps of bright coloured conversation chapeau will definitely bring a chiffon and a matching chiffon sash. pot without spilling the pepper: Good woy of filling the pepper- cease when you answer the phone? spring flair into your wardrobe. Yes
No
Take an envelope, open the corner 11. Do you feel obliged to com-
Combining dusty pink, navy blue a little and insert the cut corner If you already have a navy or and turquoise is one of the favour-into the pot. This forms a funnel ment on the driving when you are black cloth coat add to it a vivid ite trios in resort clothes, but and the pepper can easily be pour- a passenger in an automobile; or pastel hat and scarf, either in would be equally effective in soft, ed through. to insist that the
of the house,
the way
Yes
10. Do
1
your
No
spoken
be
that, if Yes
you
No
driver suede, faille or felt, preferably in tweeds for casual country or town about: this
or canary yellow, dusty pink or pow-wear. are in a taxi? der blue.
Primrose, yellow promises to be 12. Do you have a difficult time If your new black hat has a big news for spring with
room-mates, scarcely ever bright splash of colour on it, and black, with brown, with navy it's with finding one whose ways don't drive many of them have, a fresh flower refreshingly new
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If you have some bruse is sprouts left over from dinner they will make a very good salad. Cut the chopped walnuts and mix all to- sprouts into sections, sprinkle with
gether with salad cream.