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THE HONGKOng Telegraph, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1937.

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·NOWING your own type is the first step to stabilising your personality, to converting your neurotic tendency into successful achievement and Stubbs Road happiness. First type is:-

The Hesitater

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This is the man who admits he suffers from an inferiority complex."

Yesterday we published- ffly test questions, your answers to which shore- ed whether or not you are neurotic-that in, This "highly-strung." article describes the siz Boris of KEYTONA sibility, and tells you how to adapt them as powerful factors for success and happincas,

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The Blamer

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LOOFERS sometimes into another grow

The 'Up-and-Downer'

the moody, HE is

emotional-often brilli ant-person who swings regular- type-even more dangerous to ly from highest ecstasy to deep mental health despair.

The blamer is touchy and

In the upswing he is brilliant, grouchy. When things go peppy, zesty, optimistic, and, re- wrong, he blames circumstances acts to life on top gear.

or other people: never will be

Of his type are the artists, the take a share of the blame. -

He will torture an innocent supersalesmen; the purveyors of good cheer and high-pressure wife with his suspicions; pester ballyhoo, the millionaires who his colleagues or employers with regularly make and lose their accusations of conspiracy or -millions. All of them are people neglect: demand receipts for with tremendous emotional everything, insist on having the horse-power.

most trivial things in writing.

Suspiciousness is the cancer of In the downswing, melancholla and nervous breakdown are the the mind. 'It tends to grow; and is it grows, it gnawa and eats risks he runs

How should the "up-and. Into the mind. downer" conduct his life?

The "blamer" is a difcult If he is going to harness his person to help because his tremendous energy, he must attitude to life has been acquired make a conscious adjustment to at an early age. And because The Doubter

the phase he happens to be in at he doesn't usually want to be.

helper, nor does he realise the HE must do things in a any given moment.

certain fixed way, and In the upswing, he must be need.

When he does, it is possible by spends hours haunted by the ware of overwork to exhaustion, doubt that he may have omitted of over-optimistic spur-of-the- conscious reasoning and self- Commonest symptoms are:

moment impulses, of irrevocable study-especially at moments of part of his ritual.

failure or frustration-to modify The worrying temperament; Ile must touch lamp-posts, decisions and commitments. anxious dreams; joor, it avoid pavement-cracks, count He should start and carry slowly his attitude. sufficient, or excessive sleep: window-panes, etc.; he must through enterprises that have Thongkong Telegraph. blushing, shyness, or stuttering; worit or dress in a certain fixed been planned in the calm be-

tween downswing and upswing.

In the downswing, he should He is over-conscientious and

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1937.

RAW MATERIALS

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Use Your Neurosis

UNDERSTAND your neurosis and yourself. excessive smoking, drinking, or way. doping; unreasonable' feelings of guilt or inferiority; morning over-methodical to a degree that relax and indulge his most Admit, study, understand, and Hometimes paralyses efficient passive hobbies, such as reading correct shortcomings that can be corrected: habits of day-dream- fatigue, nervous restlessness or work.

and music.

postponing decisions. fidgety mannerisms; phobins or

facts. The obsessional or compulsive He should cutlivate a friend- ing,

unpleasant unreasonable fears, le, of neurosis is what they call it, or marry a woman of stolider evading heights, closed or open spaces, Intellectuals and brain-workers temperament: some one who making elaborate excuses, blam- are especially prone: men more will curb him when he is up and ing others first, shirling con- germs, disease, death, etc.

than women. Dr. Samuel John- encourage him when he is down. tucts with people, etc. BECAUSE he lacks con- son was a classical example.

fidence and feels in-

And this vicious circle is what the soul-doctor-or medical psychologist-calls the anxiety neurosis.

do?

WHAT should the "ob- sessional doubter"

Accept gladly the shortcom- ings that cannot be changed:

and urge to your life.

The "Aloofer" HE wants to be alone." the shortcomings that give drive Not because he is shy, Be proud of that urge and Frankly, the psychology of but because he prefers his own drive and use it to round off and this neurosis is highly com- company. He is considered a bit stabilise your personality, your plicated, technical, and not yet queer. If he becomes: hard- character, and your work. Cut completely understood. If it is bolled, he can be cold, ruthless, out self-pity.

cruel.

At least ten millions in this at all work-crippling, only, a

He is a schizoid (pronounced country alone are in your boat. psychologist should be allowed to treat it.

shidz-oid) personality. Napolcon, Profit by your neurosis. Re- Beethoven, and mind yourself constantly that Usually he is able to reveal Newton,

wore schizoid the fun is not in success, but in subconscious feelings of heavy Schopenhauer

the succeeding. If you think guilt; feelings that date from "aloofers." What should the anxiety-unpleasant experiences in early.If the "aloofer" is submitted that is platitudinous "dope," ask. neurotic do?,

childhood and have long been to great stress or strain, the risk any one who is successful

You cannot completely cut out forgotten, but have left this of nervous breakdown is greater

than in the preceding types. He unhappines any more than you damaging trace.

The gradual revelation and ad- should do everything he can to can completely cut out fatigue. justment of the sufferer to these acquire the social techniques and A little suffering is, the best and unpleasant memories that have graces that come naturally to only seasoning for happiness.

So long as you don't get to like. been repressed into the depths others.

Friendship and love-which unhappiness for its own sake. of the mind offers the only

But it is no he finds so difficult-are his At the moment you are one in chance of a cure.

strongest safeguards against tho five. If you can learn to tap the casy task.

If the neurosis is mild, the aloof self-absorption that leads forces that are in you, you may general advice later on in this to unbounded conceits, timidities become one in a million. At any article will help.

-and even delusions.

rate you will become happier.

It is a step in the right direction that the League of Nations Council has set up an international committee to study the vexed question of access to raw materials. This has been ons of the most .debated matters in the international sphere for ferior, he hesitates before tasks some considerable time past, and of which he is easily capable and if some means can be found of leaves them undone. It is it meeting the wishes of those vicious circle. Excessive anxiety nations who feel that they are disturbs his efficiency. Inefici- suffering economic handicaps, #ency reinforces his anxiety and really worthwhile achievement makes it habitual. will have been recorded. The question is usually discussed in relation with that of colonies. In some quarters, there is a popular illusion that the posses- sion of colonies largely solves the problem of raw materials. Sir Norman Angell has, how- ever, lucidly demonstrated that there is no real evidence' in sup- port of this contention, and a very great deal to disprove it On the other hand, the problem of free access to raw materials is one which certainly demands urgent attention. This fact was recognised by the League As- sembly last September, when it asked the Council to set up a committee composed of represen- tatives of the Economic and Political Committees of the League, together with other qualified individuals, to go into the whole question. Now the Council has acted on the recom-

He should face his problems squarely; admit his short- comings: correct them where possible, compensate for them where not: limit his ambitions and objectives until his con- fidence has returned: above all, he must make definite decisions and abide by them.

The Evader

the IN this neurosis,

subconscious. mind takes a hand and converts worry or anxiety into bodily symptoms. How easily this may happen you know from the way in which fear makes perfectly normal people blush and stutter.

LAUGHTER IN COURT

mendation. In order that there Any doctor will tell you that DES

ESPITE the fact that "laughter" "Very well," replied the Judge, the Lord Chancellor intervened and

shall be no biassed consideration

realised. Not all the

Press.

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to-morrow."

come.oof.

is sternly discouraged in Courts "I will alter the sentence to one for said, "We pronounce the word here

na enough." of the issue, invitations will be at least 50 per cent of those who of Justice, there are perhaps more life."

Then there was the Irish Judge "Very well, my lord," was the issued to Non-League States to consult him for physical symp-genuine laughs in Courts in the join in the investigation, intoms are suffering from effects course of a year than is generally who, in his summing-up in a murder reply, and throughout the next half-

he not "quips"

and caso, remarked to the Jury. "Well, hour

only pronounced which connection the hope is ex- of chronic worry on heart, really incidents appear in the gentlemen, I think that after this "enough" with the "hard" sound, but evidence we should drop the sub-also such words as "plough which, pressed that the United States, digestion, and the other bodily

functions,

he rendered as "pluff." Germany, Japan and Brazil will

The epigrams and witty remarks Jeet."

In a police court a woman, an old

The result was extremely comical. Commoneat forms be willing to take part. There

are: of famous Judges like the late Mr. seems at the moment some doubt nervous indigestion (by far the Justice Darling and Mr. Justice offender, was asked her age and re-and the law lords and barristers were M'Cardie, were always widely pub- biled, "30." You gave the same age hard put to it to keep their faces regarding the attitude of Ger- commonest kind of indigestion), lished, but let it be whispered that when you were here five years ago,"

straight.

nsk- You anything "Have you any

to Bay?" many, but, if she is anxious that nervous palpitation, and most not all the "wisecracks" uttered by Interposed the Clerk

"Well," answered the woman with a ed the clerk in a Folice Court to n popular men were 22 the question be thoroughly ex-nervous headaches. And to a these two pop

carat

toss of her head, "I'm not like the woman charged with drunkenness. original plored, and believes that she is large extent migraine, asthma,

Probably the most famous "quip" riff-raft wet says

sent tae jall, the Baillie winna har a not at present getting a fair deat, some types of hay-fever, and of Mr. Justice Darling was the one and another thin one thing to-day "only this," she answered, "If I'm

chronic eczema.

The witty Judge who said to a clean shirt to put on tilt witness declared. there would appear to be every-

he made when thing to gain on her part by Usually the sufferer does not that he had entered, the "Elephant slow witness named Gunn, "Come,I dae his wife's washing."

Mr. Gunn, don't hang fire," and A Scots palmist was once up charg

with re- Inter, Mr. Gunn, you can go off, ed

fortune-telling. Surely. Laking an active part in the deli-associate his worries with his Inn" on his way home.

Atrunk call, I presume," berations. It is obvious that a symptoms. But if the source of marked Lord Darling. According to you are discharged," convulsed his seeing you can foresee the future you will be able to tell what my sen- mière redistribution of colonies anxiety is faced and removed, law gossip this was first uttered by Court..

tence on you will bo?" sarcastically would not solve Germany's eco-the bodily symptoms ilisappear a willy Irish barrlater over thirty

A girl applied for a palemity order, remarked the Magistrate to the nomic problems, and, were that with it..

Sir Edward Carson had a classic and the young man concerned was offender.

retorted "Na, na,"

the woman fallacy realised, and some in-

duel with a witness. "Do you being ably defended by his counsel. THE psychologist's name drink?" asked counsel. That's my In the middle of the latter's ex-naively, "I can see lines on a hand. dication given of a willing

for the neurosis is business," replied the witness. "Any amination the Magistrate intervened but I canna see through wood or n LEATHER BAGS from $13.50 ness to back up the League hysteria (not, of course, in the other business immediately retort with, "I do not think counsel need brick wall

proceed any further. “ have seen the Mention of fortune-telling recalls in its effort to get at the popular sense of malingering, ed Carson. This practically was root of the trouble, fruitful re- or shirking, or the Victorian repetition of something he had baby and his resemblance to the a case when a phrenologist, at the ra

young man is most striking." "But.. quest of the Court, agreed to be put to suits of general international "vapours").

your Honour," exclaimed the barris through a test of his powers value should accrue.- Economic

What should the "hysteric American Judges have more free-ter, "my client is not in Court." The "read" heads to rebut the charge of CANVAS BAGS from $8.50 Ills of any country are not whol-

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his client.

Chancellor, During passed on

"He is suffering from an incura the case in the Gilded Chamber the the case. of the raw materials problem. he is worried and concentrate his

ble disease, your Honour,": the litigation was concerned with a land Its conclusions should greatly energies on solving his problems could movingly, "and he is dispute. The Scots barrister several There is an old Irish barrister who help towards a clear apprecia- rather than on cultivating his nou expected to live more than two times pronounced the word "enough" anys that he was once at a murder tion of all the factors involved. it symptoms.

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