Doctors
cure
her fear of cats
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
37-YEAR-OLD London
A housewife who wor
scared of caty has boon cured after three months' treatment on the National Health Service.
She was admitted os a day patient to the Bethlem Royal Hospital.
She told psychologist Dr D. C. Kendrick and psychiatrist Dr Hugh Freemon that when she was a Wren she always slept in the top bunk In case a cat might jump on her,
After her marriage, she became so trightened of cats that she would stay Indoors for fear of seeing une outside. She would never walk on the in- side of pavement, because of the possibility of cats on the walls,
Pictures of cats on TV
nude
her uneasy, and she could not bear to fouch fur gloves or her doughter's toy teddy bear.
THE ORIGIN
The woman traced her fear back
to seeing her father drown a kitten when she was four. Later her parents, terrified her when they put a fur coat in her bed for a joke.
The doctors decided to
break
down her phobia gradually by gulling her to touch velvet and gradually increasing the furriness of the material until she coisle bear le touch rabbit fur.
Then they slowly induced her to
put pictures of cats on
the
singe
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1960.
JACKY'S DIARY
Yesterday we Ate a BARBER @,
in The Back Yard,
So then Daddy Started into Make Some Hot Dogs in the fire, f HAMBERgers
fire
TOO.
∙Sizzle
GET
also You
201TA Wear a SPESHTUL Uniform, Witches MAINLY a Chief's Hate a APPON with FUNNY SayingS ON
it
PS and ALSO! GLOVES
Out of
Cour
JACKY Mendelsohn
Age 321⁄2
a Barber Q, is when Youn
Daddy burns The Dinner. instead of YOUR MOMMY.
BARBerQ.
NOTO Barber
Pretty Soon SOME Body nockep A Pan of Grease IN the Fire, i think it was ME... ANYHOW the HOLE THING CAUGHT
on Fire.
©1960 PM Fri 5 Studicate in Mord rights Reserved,
(its Something Like a Pick Nick, exept. instead of JUST ANTS, YOU GET UNCLES, Too
AND also other Reletives,
So WE Through Some Water on the fire SO AS to Putit OUT... Boy did that make
LOTSA SMOKE!!
7-24
UNCLE
UNCLE
L'ANT
Willy CUSSI
[ATT BEPTHA Fred
Selma
Bobby
So AfteR THat
WE haddA cat
up all The Food]
While it still WAS Roar,ON- a count or Your [MUSTNT NEVER] Waste Food!
TODAY Daddy's Sick with indecision.
i guess its from EATING all THOSE Roar HOT Dog
дасру
date as a dodo WHAT WILL
Mr
K...
NORMALLY this is the time of the year when city dwellers rush for the seaside to browse on the piers, to swim, to lie in the sun, and perchance toy to dream. Even the politicians seek solace in golf, and white-capped
yachtsmen appear in all their airs of social superiority.
walls of her home. She was also brought to the when she could touch a kitten.
live A She was then shown
kitten and gradually induced le touch it. Finally she took
the kilten home,
"Ten
werks after beginning treatment, she touched a full-
grown cat for the first time,
the doctors report in the Bri-
tish Medical Journal,
-(London Express Servle},
Chess News
by LEONARD BARDEN
London Izore Strates.
But something must have angered the sun god, for it has disappeared behind the clouds and refuses to take part in the festivities. Hour after hour the rain god spits its damp venom upon the earth and the sea beneath. In fact the seaside boarding houses have become prisons from which al- most no one emerges, and the hotels are like crowded mausoleums.
Yet in the
politics! sphere
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months
Ayo
when
London Letter
by SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.
character of all
lets.
THEY THINK
LA
European con- this which cannot be expressed alone in terms of money, Trade Also there is shrewdness as is the great sanity of a compell- well as wirdoin in the protive world. As a result of her colicement of Dr Adenauer expanding experts and imports 19 moving irresistiblý the integration of the Russ
Iriend, belilgerent pudgy,
the the Dodo.
that
enough.
Kneeled
seaside
of
OF NEXT?
GREAT craze has crept unobtrusively into the "civilised" world in the past decade the world mumbo-jumbo.
Just as the Charleston immortalised the Twen- ties and Elvis Presley rocked the Fifties, 80 mumbo-jumbo is hitting the Sixties..
Common. Market had gone far towards a bourgeois state. Our Bat it is not only in the realm Khrushchev, is as out of date as of politics that there is
In short, Europe is on the warmib of hope,
The art of murabo-jumbo, and A few weeks ago 2,000 German march not of soldiers--but of
This system involves at least youths took part in a "march of ordinary men and women who
normal, its splinter group, gobbledegook, two loud speakers which broad- alonement" from Munden to the want to enjoy. happy.
cast the sound at such a pitchi had simple begimings. peaceful lives. nt
It all started in a small Paris that any neighbours in the there is the warm sun of hope. wab possible he would do what Hauses of Parliament gathered former concentration camp
Then are we to assume that and ance more, we are res he could in prosecuting the at Westu neter Hall to pay Dachau,
This is not to say that those personalities do-
There is hope and significanes all ordinary people are content dresshouse, which found it was vicinity are forced to listen. minded that
and happy
throughout the not selling enough fancy dresses human way. It was al Claridges Hotel utbute to the man who brought minute events. Of al
from the shame and when Scottish and Irish scouts world? The dark clouds of fate at fancy prices. Gradually it put are the only "experimental" In London where I came across France
that women's businessmen, qualities the greatest of them is
sheltered corner where pessimism of defeat to a new march with German youths, as
Other mumbo-jumbo followers integrity, and today in
they did on this occasion, to the over the Congo are enough to over the idea he sat alone with staring cyus und vigorous spirit.
where 20,000 Fornan dispel such an illusion, if the fashion should change at least perspective we are able to see
Westminster camp No wonder In that saw nothing but the ter
tape recorders. attended the dedica- great powers admit that war is once a year-more often if possi- include the makers of radios and
can ble. we the considerable ochlevements rible challenge of fate,
Hail on
the supreme lunacy,
Consequently, that gathering there Catholles
the menfolk The radio companies decided, and
Irritablities of day of Macmillan, de Gaulle
have been subjected to bills for afler convincing various govern Adenauer In the recent con- There we sat in silence, for it was a great outburst of enthu- tien of a memorial chapel to the criure the
when the lion-hearted 30,000 prisoners who were pu
to day life. was obvious that his mind was slaun
And since this is summer. 1 A-line, B-line, Sack and Balloon ments of the wisdom of such a welcomed the lion to death there.
policy, to switch over the "FM" Solution No. 5878: 1 RxKt.ference at Bonn on the Rhine.
of Churchil In some far off world
must in honesty tell you that dresses and the like ever since.
Other I frst met Gentral de Gaulle
Industries or rather again the meaning is lost to RR: 2 RR!. QXR: 3 Q-
Jerusalem France had thought, dejection and courage. hearted leader of France,
the walling wall of But 17 ch. K-KI3; 4 K-R4 in the war when
integrity in nation intien and de Gaulle had flown I was reminded of all thisoth Icadership is not confined to
is nothing to the wailing of their advertising agents-thought me. All I DO know is that the they might also get into the old "AM" rodio I bought last mate,
England's
landladies.
year cannot pick up the now to Londen, where, as far as it low
Britain, France nor America, Dr
The returning trains to London business.
One of the leaders of modean transmissions, and I have to buy and other inland cities have mumbo-jumbolsin has been the a new one if I wish to listen. been crowded to suffocation,
The tape recorder firms- sea- gramophone ari record incastry. whereas the rains to the
NEW PRODUCT
actually inspired by the mumbo- side centres have been as empty
There were the days when the jumbo movement itself-in their as an idiot's head.
However, in the
broader gramophone was wound up at contribution to the cause, are At the motrat of writing, extreme gravity of the guilt we
Germans have to take upon sphere of human experience the side, and to hear musle one bringing out a tape which has
the six or seven tracks on it. put a record on Macmillan, cle Gaulle and
ourselves.
that We are responsible belleve
civilisation and croly Adenauer were in conterence at
misery of fellow men human
the turntable, placed the needle arm Therefore, the single track tape decency are on
con- on the record, and sat back to recorder will soon be quite use- Ban on the Rhine, Logically for the
being disturbed less, as they will shords stop and sensibly they were trying from 37 nations. We confess our march despite the racial
beset us in far off ston, without to avert the division of Europe guilt to God, to the victima, to fiets that
guity territories struggling towards by the neighbours complaining making the single track tapos. Film companies, and at neces- into what is known do The Six each other, and the
among us ask for forgiveness." independence, even though they about the noise.
Then gradually, the record and The Seven.
There are people who contend are not yet ready to assume the business decided to make some ty, cinemas, have also entered
the mumbo-jumbo business. that only pessimists are realis- responsibilities of self
more money.
"Why not introduce an electric They have brought out various tic, whereas optimists are fools, ment.
Scopes gramophone which won't play wider-than-wide those old 78 rpm records?" they multi-lingual Small Colour to nico the #ustomers fight for ad- Lasked
So, off the factory assembly mittance at twice the othmission lines came a new producthe prke just to get their eardrums now re- split several times with 72-track second player-and w cord: the 45 rpm "dise". Thus Hi-Fi Stereo sound. the old products became mascum One or two of Hongkong's
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Standing at the gate of the Prison a priest kneeled before the cruelix and then declared; those who had "Not only the
responsible. power were We all
тоге от less know, clearly, that we have our share his of sin. We are all aware of the
Adenauer may not be a roman- te or loveable creature but ne cte can challenge his courage or his integrily any move the they can challenge stubbornness,
conferer.ce
WUS
govern-
and
Historic Manillan declared that the Admittedly by nature I am an In my opinion, mothers can
In opumist, but bellove that trade Inok upon their children with historic
unwrit nations is C grept out undue fear of the character, It was widoubtedly between
amly, on future. If the great powers rource of international significant change in PTD-
ean achleve a material Therefore I suggest that we |cedure andi, according to Muc look at the facts and figures of spiritual partnership then war
allon should be regarded
the will be unthinkable and mat Anglo-Russian trade for
kind will experience the sanity such.
first six months of 1980, It does not need stressing to
• Britain's exports to the of peace, understand the possibilites of Soviet were almost double those sich an turies the
waged war against each
Bri
whitspe
uf SLOW
plecce.
MUMBO-JUMBO
night clubs have even taken the Soon afterwards care the 33 hit, and are among the leaders nation of Europe for the cluding texporta B. THE Tain has stopped. The rm dises which required a new of the gel gobbiedegook spin-
while record player or at least some tor group.
One contribution Includes the other tain sold £25,707,081 of goods clouds are coqueting with the extremely expensive alterations
to the insides, to slow down the "U.S.A. Nucleus Wespon..to und now, at last, there is the dn increase of £12,089,587.
There hope in speed.
shock you, electrify you with her realisation, 2nd also the de- To balance matters, and for brazen sun.
even though
Super-Voltaga sharp Now, at this very moment, Gomph - Laden' claration, that Europe, including the same period, Russia sold to the air
£24,000,708 of goods, breeze la causing the leaves to these gentlemen of the trade are Dances." Great Britain, should become a Britain
'and the clouds are thinking in terms of 18 rpm At one time the motor cer Russians a modest tremble, community based upon mutual giving the
massing for another burst of dises.
advertisements would tell you trade and the end of civil war rise of £4,459,052.
Not only that; the boys in the how much petrol their product for that in effect has been the There is a significance in all rain upon the earth beneath.
back room decided for the sake used, and how much it cost to of progress to introduce a now buy
WIVES WALK OUT
IN DAY-DREAMS
ONE of the favourite day-dreams of many women
New York.
sound in discs. This resulted in Times have changed. Now they HI-FI am told, it starts for coli off exquisite phrases belling High Fidelity. but quite what you their car has "Juid body that means no one seems to be lines," "no unnecessary exteriör able to explain to me.
dimension" and "unibody con This of course, involved fur- struction," steering which "tames ther changes in one's record wheel fight," a boot which "swal playing apparatus, and the re- lows your luggage," generally cords used..
speaking gives you a "toreton- That was not enoudatha aire ride," and all-in-all is the shareholders Wiero clamouring "perfect getaway car.”
You can also buy a "50-arola for another bumper dividend
So, along came "Stered twin-cyUnder' high-capacity air да "exclusive Stereophonic Sound to the un- conditioner," initiated, and seemingly as Activated-Cold Air-Purifying"
"cuddle-slay, meningless as its predecesora refrigerator. exoept in the case of dollars and simpless," a "tangies!". orange. and olgarolles which best, the A CHANGE
"avour-blar”, and “apin sad Again, a change of discs and cool the smoke" through "deal Palmer has been interested the
Or why not tapt a pair of shorta for many years in the effect of walking out on their marriages, patients more than diets and piils player was required. This latter Biration"
Inseriment has to be accom "A few even po out and start would have done. • the emotions on bodily functione.
The questioning helped the panted by a battery of compil. "Where no seat one to chate,”
#Zoons" you connorde which
a deodorant « nghaletz In 1950 he published a medical of-onty to return after two or
spoelal box, paper on the roletionship, be three blocks," Dr. Palmer noted patients to work out their own cated dials and switches in
The Boston report's purpose inner, reorganisation."
Three of Dr Polimer's favour- The new equipement also acted Scoops you so odoug-free a blood- woen high blood pressure and
is to show how much a doctor + various personality types.
can learn about his patients by He questions were: “Do you over as a new instance policy for all hound could not find you, & Car For his new murvey, Palmer making the right questions, and take yourself the meaning of record player: mechanier, bo tyre that doesn't get tired," or studised/400 "average poople at proving how much better the life? Do you over ask your cause if the beginner pulled the peaches that are (floppy arki. who came to him seeking help majority of the patients foot self what you am getting out of wrong witch at the wrong time abo
Mio?" Do you have sen very simple operation the What will they think of next for a physical aliment. Of this after wering them.
De Palmer bellaves that in of dread or foreboding, ponio or whale contraption blow up ock
Peter Waitt 1 group, 240 dvere /Wurder and 10
|zwqadred an extensive overhinsak. - per cent of these admitted to zanzy ensest the question-and-terror?
who are apparently happily married is to walk out on their home and family, according to Boston physician Dr Robert Sterling Palmer. He became interested in the problem when he started asking psychological questions of patients who came to him with physical complaints.
periods recurrent day-dream of answer
helped the
conté.