"I suppose I'm fussy..
but I don't see
why, at my age, I
should put up with
second-best... For
instance, I'm fond of the theatre;
but, believe I'd rather
me,
than see an indifferent play.
stay away
So that's why, when you offered me whisky, I asked you to make mine a White Horse. I daresay some men hold that one Scotch whisky is as good as another. Well, when they know as much about it as I do, they will think differently."
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Whisky
You can tell it blindfold!
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THE CHINA MAIL, JANU
"WITCHCRAFT" THE SLASHER SCARE
EXPERTS TALK OF "JACK THE RIPPERISM"
"Medieval outbreaks of witchcraft epidemics When one must have been something like it. woman thought she had been looked at by the evil eye, many of her neighbours found their milk went sour and their cattle went lame.”
Professor J. C. Flugel, of London University, suggests this parallel to the "slasher" scare which, in the last few weeks, has spread from Halifax to Bradford, and from there to Wigan, London (Brentford), Settle, Sale and Glasgow.
HYSTERICAL TYPES Police are now of the opinion
original "There are also harmless com- that, apart from the “Slasher" and his 13 victims, "an pulsions. Dr. Johnson felt he had to accumulation of incidents which touch every post in Fleet-street on have no association with any such his way home. If he missed one, he person" have been attributed to a had to go back. Some suffer merely from compulsive thoughts on which bogy man.
Where there is any real core to they do not act. All such compul- the innumerable tales of slashings, | sions have infantile roots.
"Naturally news of such out- Professor Flugel thinks there may be found “a sexual pervert troubled breaks as this leads to a certain which possibly with a milder form of Jack-the amount of imitation, both actual unconscious wis
Ripperism, with all the elusiveness of some of the mass-murderers."
"COMPULSIVE ACTS”
Dr. Edward Glover, Director of the Institute of Psycho-Analysis,
and hysterical."
IN TUNE tume of the sch beth, sang card Archbishop Ten worn at church
desire to slash."
LIKE Dr. Stekel, t famous psycho-
Under hysterical types Dr. Glover places the individuals who accuse themselves of having been slashers, or those, frequently unmarried wo said "Slashing ghould be classed men, who invent tales of having marched, quoted
been attacked by men, or who will 'compulsive acts,' which may not actually slash themselves to bear pulse, bit his vi
among what psychologists know as
this out.
to London from
who, under a d
with his teeth.
His obsession, or ide
have more than a superficial sexual
"This type of fantastic imitation significance.
is commonly observed in children, "From time to time, they don't who gratify unconscious wishes and thropia, know why, some individuals suffer inflate their self-importance with from powerful compulsions to com-tales of attacking or being attacked pulsions to commit irrational of
by animals, strange.men, etc.”
ENGINI
fences against persons or property (Boys in a Sheffield school took —including ink and vitriol throw-
to "slashing" girls in the school ing, cutting little girls pigtails, playground at the height of an GIVES IN AD slashing, cattle maiming, burning "epidemic.")
do
REMARKA)
(20%*
haystacks, etc.
I asked Dr. Glover: "Why "Frequently the victims seem to razor attacks in one form or an- be women--and of course when a other seem to be increasing? Is it
INDEPENDE man squirts ink on a woman's dress simply because the razor-blade has become so common in these days the sexual implication is obvious.
(changes rid new blade for every two "But such compulsive acts are not of a
CONTROLLED necessarily accompanied by sexual shaves?"
"Socially, habits are only super-(you can't help m pleasure, nor is the motive exclu- sively sadistic. There is a whole ficial determinants," he answered. must remember there is a class of what I call 'social perver-"You sion,' destructive acts in which the special fascination about knives and to their symbolism) motive seems to be unconscious re- razors (due venge against women or sometimes just as on the other hand we find society as a whole.
people who have a horror of knives,
NO-DRAUGH
(fresh air We will provid run on any V demonstrate i
Bringing Up Father
WHAT? YOU'RE GONNA LET ME GO OVER TO DINTY
MOORE'S ?
YES-BUT FOR JUST ONE PURPOSE -MY BROTHER DANNY WENT TO WORK TODAY AND I WANT THOSE LOAFERS
TO KNOW IT-
HELLO-JIGGS-
WHAT'S
THE NEWS?
YEAH - DISH OUT
THE DIRT-
WELL-BOYS-THIS IS NEWS - MAGGIE'S BROTHER DANNY WENT TO WORK THIS MORNING-
HELLO-MAGGIE
I TOLD THEM -
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