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WE
ALL KNOW
THE KIND OF
"F
Always
Fussing
about
PERSON
Something
WHO IS
Harley-street thrives on fuss. People love to have a nice, hearty and authoritative 'talk' about what they fancy are their symptoms.
Fuss and nonsense,
4. AND I dare any these
two men 1 hayo men- tioned may have had fussy teachers. Oh, heaven protect our young from the fussy schoolmaster and mistrcas!
They sent out prospectuses for their schools that are documentary evidence of first- class fuss. "Every boy should be provided with six pairs of underwear, eleven pairs of socks, nine white collars and four ties."
The poor kid who arrives, at school with one leas of each is blamed for the defoction. He geta into a groove of fussiness, so that when he comes back from. his first term his parents wonder what has happened to their little Harold.
It appears he can't leave the house without goloshes and a raincoat if the sky is at all grey. got wet!" you say.
"Go on, it won't hurt you to
USS= irritating Bosh, all I want you to do is to I knew another Mr. Gloomy send the book to Mr. Gasper." who was head of a big publish- and unnecessar}},
Nothing irritates a really ing company. They were a very
"Oh, Miss Stretch, the activity; bustle; good fusser more than a placid big company. He fussed him- matron, doesn't let us go out confusion; stir; verb, manner.
self into grey-headed maturity after November without either One day Miss Bosh was in a before he was forty. One night, an overcoat or a macintosh."
Hongkong Telegraph. intransitive, to worry; bts complete dither. Her desk look. I came upon him sitting at his
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1937.
THE DANZIG ADJUSTMENT There is so much tension and unrest in international affairs
at the present moment that the successful adjustment of the Danzig question, which last year threatened to result in a big Bare-up, is most reassuring. It will be recalled that in July last, Herr Greiser, the Nazi President of the Danzig Senate, made a violent attack, before the
oneself with trifica."
Thus the dictionary.
A girl has just thrown her self in front of a train because she thought her employer's "You fusa too much" was too serious to be borne,
·
It is certainly too serious a contagious disease to be ignored. I fuss a lot myself when I am surrounded by people who fuss. Highly contagious,
Miss Stretch! With all that ed as if a tornado had struck it, desk in the nerve centre of his
clothes being fussing about and the telephone (which she vast organisation fussing over marked in two places and ties insisted on placing as far away two pieces of coloured tissue being tied as if they were as possible, so that every time paper. It was long after his cravats and not ties.. it rang she had to jump up to time for going home. He was answer it) had rung four times fussing over what colour the in five minutes.
free paper patterns in one of his
5
OR possibly these two men are married
"You seem to be in trouble, women's magazines were going to fussy wives, Miss Bosh," I said, in the kindly to be for the coming year-the I once knew a wife so fussy He that a divorce sprang from the tones which are also so irritat- ing. "Did you always run your
apparently insignificant fact of desk in this comic manner?"
her husband squeezing a tooth- phate tube in the middle and not, as it should be.. at the end.
Her eyes filled with tears. "Not always," she said. "But
I had a very fussy boss. I used to work for Mr. Gloomy."
usual dun brown or pink? fussed his secretary till one day she started to scream and got a holiday at Capri out of it.
I dare say he and Mr. Gloomy may have both caught the dis-
ease from their mothers.
ought to be locked
"Perhaps I am fussy," she said. "But I simply couldn't bear to see him doing it that way.'
The trouble is, of course, that we fasa because we don't stop
2 MR. GLOOMY must
have broken the 3 THE fussy mother heart and punctured the nervous system of many a secretary mothers can ruin a whole nu ly.
up, A generation of fussy to think the thing out proper--
"For heaven's sake stop fuss- ing! I fuss. Which only in- flames the fusser all the more. Miss Zasu Pitts has not won fame as an eccentric, but as a genuine person whom we all recognise as it highly developed specimen of the "O me. O my. He is a champion fusser. He tion. They are a terrible type. O my!" neurosis.
Fussing is the product of a League Council, on Mr. Sean
gives an order like this: "Send Ask any doctor. They usually mind either repressed or one- Here are some victims of a memorandum to Mr. Blink
fuss about health. Lester, the High Commissioner. what was once a rather amusing about the expenses sheets."
tracked. There is no need to and the whole League conner-idlosyncrasy. The pace of And then an hour later, "You "Oh, doctor, little Willy has a fuss, no need to fuss at all.
Hort of Just at this moment I am tion with Danzig. Mr. Lester modern life has knocked all haven't forgotten about that most extraordinary
I ought to or nearly all the humour out memorandum to Mr. Blink, have bump on his head. I don't fussing as to how should resign, he 'declared, and. of it. People's idiosyncrasies you?" And an hour after that: think it is very deep, but he has bring this article to a graceful more, his post should be abolish-may be amusing, but the "Did you take that memorandum been looking a little pale just finish. But I won't fuss any seriousness that lies behind yourself to Mr. Blink?" And, before lunch ever since he had more. My mind is made up. with all the The way to end an article is S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.ed and the functions transferred them can be tragic.
inally, "Don't forget about that the bump, and to the Senate. The Council,
Blink memorandum.
influenza going round 1 wonder right however, unanimously supported - 1 SHE is a secretary. In the Russia of Chekov and whether you think it would be the High Commissioner, and secretary. She had a hatred of Turgenioff the secretary would better if I put him to bed just instructed the Polish delegation sharpened pencils and note- have turned one day and given for a couple of days' rest.
books. Also of files. Her desk him what-for in a hair-raising course. I don't think the bump (Poland is responsible for was always littered with carbon and hysterical scene. Now they actually has anything to do Danzig's foreign relations) to copies. If you said: "Miss Bosh, just catch the disease them with the paleness, but you can't
selves or fade away.
be too careful, can you?" enquire into a number of points would you take a letter for me, in the dispute, particularly please?" there was an agonising
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Once she was my
"Don't you find a notebook is better and more efficient for re- cording notes?" I used to ask
her.
"Oh, yes." she would agree.
Of
here.
Beckles
Gordon
SUCCESS IN LIFE
By
Professor William Wright
doors of your school or college close behind you that in my opinion your real education begins, Your person- uilty, enchained for many years is now in your own hands-free and unfettered.
three minutes while she evidence of the direction of sharpened a pencil and found a Danzig Nazis from Berlin. The piece of paper to take down her
shorthand. special Danzig Committee, under | Mr. Eden, was enlarged, and its report has now been accepted, by the League Council. Not only xo, but Herr Greiser has under-
But she never used a note-MANY of my readers will not taken to co-operate loyally with book. When I asked her, say, unnaturally think of success in the new League Commissioner.to send a book to some one, she terms of honours and possessions-- had a habit of calling me up at and it would be affectation not to These developments are rightly home late in the evening and pretend to desire them. For such regarded as a distinct contribu-saying, "Oh, about that book euccess I would give you three simple tion towards European peace, you wanted to send Mr. Gasper rules; never be satisfied with any- did you want a boy to take it thing but your beat; do something The Danzig situation had until
by hand or could a boy take it more, however little, than what you recently no longer been a mat-by hand later in the evening are engaged to do; do it cheerfully.
I would, however, commend to you ter of friction between Germans you see his office is shut and Plato's definition of what he con- The cultivation of the mind charoc- and Poles, with the League hold-you might just as well send it sidered was the successful man-he ter is a matter of education. Cer- Nature First--Then Books
by post I don't know just what who, when his time came to depart tain people hold that in the formation all. of these heredity is everything and
Of general measures to be adopted not devoid ble. Following the institution doesn't take it to-night will the with goodwill to all, and
of hope. This surely in the noblest
that education is, or may be, the none better than, that of seeking post do?"
form of success, one which owes
WES | more Important of the Nazi regime in Germany,
of the two. Not to communion with Nature. For many And I would reply, doubtless nothing or little to fortuitous cir- believe that education can contri- centuries Man lived in direct and Intimate companionship with her, there had been a strong move with irritating placidity: "Mias cumstances, one moreover within the bute much would be to imply the
beginning ach of all. How can success be futility of all our educational efforts. almost down to the
when modern, ine ment of imitation in. Danzig,
attained? Only, I believe, by re- Education, as I understand it, never last century. taining your individuality and by censes. where the small majority of on the prosaic matter of Dan- cultivating your mind and character.es, although it is more active of dustrialism swept him into densely
..
(IN AN INTERVIEW)
What You Learn at School
It
What are you going to do with it? Surely the answer must be that you will watch over it and attend to with all the nssiduous care which n muster gardener would bestow on the rare and delicate plants placed in his charge,
ing the balance as far as possi-¡ you would want if the boy this life, left with the goodwill of Mention but little. Others think I know of none as good, certainly
common herd.
...
to
of the
periods than at others. The nonulated towns. For long periods Nazis aimed at setting up a die-zig's bread and butter, Poland To retain your Individuality in education which we receive is, in of forgotten time she has been the tatorship of their own, with the and the Polish hinterland these days is no easy matter. The my opinion, merely preliminary. only teacher he knew. It would have information presented for your con-pensable they are are the tools cnce a close relationship, conscious or established. ultimate, purpose of making the through which the Vistula flows at rush of life, the large mass of What you get at school-and indle-been strange if with this long experi-
for whereby you may educate yourself: unconscious, had not been the dominating factors.sumption, the short time left
of of the exlatence of such relationship Free City part of Herr Hitler's are
thought and reflection, all tend
learn there the alphabet Poland could cut the throat of destroy it We incline to slip back many arts and sciences. You are I have as little doubt as I have that Third Realm The opposition,
Danzig's trade in a week. Ger- and become mere members of the tought how to reason, you are sup- by failure to foster it we lose one of elled with a good deal of information, the most calming and steadying in- including trade unionists, liber
many has shown that she values
Interests ure aroused, your fluences in life. We may, however, retain it by character senerally is chastened and We may go to Nature with know- is and conservatives, however, the friendship of Poland by set-refusing to be unduly rushed, by disciplined-the ground is, so to ledge derived from years of study of stood firm. They have always ting her differences with the selecting the information we will re-speak, prepared; but that you receive one or more of the natural sciences, ceive, and by steadily persisting
deane it or we may go simply with inferest stood for Danzig's remaining a Poles for a period of ten years.in our resolve to and time of all costs much education as I
venture to doubt,
and with a soul attuned to those two vou voices of which Wordsworth speaks. fece and independent city, with Happily, the League's efforts to for thought and reflection.rvel. On leaving school and college you one of the mountain, the lonely hill
life, and one a demand that the Constitution, adjust the problema. Have now follow this course we can preserve
met, with success, and not the Individuality; if we do not,"wo pass at once to start work in the other of the sea with "its eternal
pre in grave danger of losing # and the
claims made upon your |which safeguards their political least factor in easing the situa-if we do lose it we will lose the most the acquirement of technical skill and note of andress"-voices never more
liberties, should be legally up- tion has been the apparent exer-which we have. In the later years little time
interesting and precious possession professional knowledge are such that audible than when we hear them
available for the cultiva alone; ta
Another method whereby you can hold as it has legally been undercise of restraining influences of life for our opinions to be, but the lion of your mind. It is only and
shadows of another's is to be spiritual- I should like to impress this upon you cultivate your personality is by the with all the emphasis I can-as, the
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the patronage of the League. from Berlin.
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