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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 27, 1938.
You Can Tell Them HENRY HARRIS
you tell
what people are like While
From the pets they choose
Pets and their masters!
Let's talk about that.
foot-twoer music. Lonely with a minute but lively son was a
the placid
terrier.
Samuel
I was told hat cats perfer men Because the cat is The Dane bas the size and power to women.
way," The terrier has the stand-offish, "walks its own I know more about people than she lacks. about pets. But haven't you notic- quick liveliness he sneakingly ad- and likes being fussed-over, only ed how much "easier it is to talk mires. when you know little or nothing about the subject?
Writing on
their
pets analyses the slim, wispy girl who flaunts a Borzoi-the short man who rides a tall horse the woman who keeps marmo- sets and crocodiles as pets.
You'll be surprised how much the psychologist knows about YOU just from the pet you keep.
when it feels that way inclined.
Take the average person! You? Have you noticed the sort of What motives apart from the Anyway, I've analysed all the people who get too fond of animals? normal natural desire for faithful people I know who have pets. And The "doggy ones are more gre- companionship influence you when
can still remember the charming please will they send no letters or garious,hail - fellow-well - met." you choose your pet? ·
among Perhaps you are not particularly young girl, who had a blue Bedling to match her blue-tailor- wreaths, because the moment I They like being outside
aware of any! Let me boldly sug- ton terrier finish this I am going abroad for people
canary jersey, vivid lip- Very horse people are a little gest three that may influence you. ed costume, a holiday.
stick that made you sit up. proud, not so social, rather solitary, Subconsciously perhaps!
That was just healthy adolescent Not
an equally The first time my riding master critical of others, even cruel.
First. The desire to be con- conceit. She is now took me out he put me on a huge so good with the opposite sex. No
o Don Juans! No picuous! To bolster up your con- charming grown-up. black charger. With dashing ap- CassanovaES pearance, proud neck and swirling tall But with kind, amiable ways.
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Being short, it was grand looking down from a height on both my six-footer companions. It gave me Lots of confidence. Good psychology,
that!
Women and short men, I am told, prefer unduly tall horses.
By
Romeos or Juliets!
men-
Their Pets!
fidence!
You get it in men, too!
The
I mentioned the short man on very young athletes, boxers, sports- Women disappointed in
The film star. men, who favour the greyhound. tend to get too fond of horses. the tall horse.
risk Actresses-young
ones take up When they're young it's a
For the same When they're older it may be a con- spectacular dogs.
reason that they dye their hair the latest shade to attract attention.
Should they be experienced riders, it suggests they lack confidence and poise and have an inferiority com- solation. plex" about something.
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"Catty people tend to be lonely,
Once home from her walk, she senitive, aesthetic, "different" some- You must have noticed how the times to the degree of being per- hands it over to the maid. slim, wispy girl flaunts 2 gigantic verse. --
She feeds it only when there are Dane, an Irish wolf-hound
Debussy kept swarms of beauti- visitors on chocolate eclairs and Borzoi at the end of her leash. ful grey Persians-exotic like his salty cooktail snacks.
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person
Second motive! The maternal-paternal who wants something to pet.
She chooses the tor lap-dog. Pekes, poms, pugs!
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She's an actress who can't.
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daren't or won't have children. Or older woman. Children grown Or
fan
up and want no more petting. she has none. Or her husband is always busy or one of those father- ly, independent men-who simply
won't be "mothered."
She must have "helpless daring” to spoil. She treats her children as pets, and her pets as children. -
Men whose parental instincts are frustrated often prefer spaniels.
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Third, and rarest motive! Aggressive, suspicious, “difficult” people. The sort who would put broken glass, nails and barbed wire on their garden walls.
If they had garden walls! They deliberately choose
savage animal
the
Alsatians (I know they're not really fierce just nervous?), bull- terriers and bull-mastiffs, Airedal-
es.
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The "huntin,' shootin' no-talk-all- do" outdoor man likes the terrier.
Except the Aberdeen, whose mas- ter is "housey," a little house-proud with I am assured that men Sealyhams smoke a pipe, never re- fuse a cigar but never buy them. And they play golf
I can well believe it!
HAVE AN H.B. AND THEN TRY”
The Hongkong Brewery Distillery Ltd.” ~
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women
Then the over-energetic
who pet monkeys, marmosets, cro- codiles, snakes and what not-and are always changing.
They strike me as a little man- "mad" Fickle, masculine, a little
cruel Always trying-out men find the perfect specimen. Always disappointed!
A male parem might satisfy them but I don't think 90.
A clergyman tells me that women, who take to religion as a refuge, commonly take doves for pets.
He should know!
It seems feasible The dove is a symbol of quiet love without storms. Security!
I have another very
psychological explanation.
But daren't tell you.
Because
with your present knowledge of psychology you'd think if
fetched.
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