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WE ALL

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KIND OF

"F

PERSON WHO

Always Fussing about Something

Thus the dictionary.

A girl has just thrown her self in front of a train because she thought her employer's "You

Hongkong Telegraph. fuss too much was too serious in five minutes.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1937,

to be borne.

It is certainly too serious n contagious disease to be ignored: I fuss a lot thyself when I am surrounded by people who fuss, Highly contagious,

"For heaven's sake stop fuss-

Her eyes filled with tears.

"But "Not always," she said.

I had a very fussy boss. I used to work for Mr. Gloomy."

I dare say he and Mr. Gloomy may have both caught the dis- case from their mothers.

IS

Harley-street thrives on fusa. People love to have a nice, hearty and authoritativo talk about what they fancy are their symptoms.

Fuse and nonsense.

AND I dare say those

two men I have men tioned may have had fussy teachers. Oh, heaven protect our young from the fussy schoolmaster and mistress!

They sent out prospectuses. for their schools that aro 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 tics."

The poor kid who arrives at school with one less of each is blamed for the defection. He gets 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. "Go on, it won't hurt you to get wet!" you say.

the

"Oh, Miss Strotch, matron, doesn't let us go out after November without either an overcoat or a macintosh."

USS irritating Bosh, all I want you to do is to 'I knew another Mr. Gloomy

and unnecessary

send the book to Mr. Gasper," who was head of a big publish- Nothing irritates a really ing company. They were a very activity, bustle; good fusser more than a placid big company. He fussed him-

stir; War Memorial Confusion;

verb, manner.

self into grey-headed maturity Nursing Home, on January 31 intransitive, to worry; busy complete dither. Her desk look. I came upon him sitting at his One day Miss Bosh was in a before he was forty. One night

Miss Stretch! With all that Matthew Edward Howey Wells, oneself with trifles."

ed as if a tornado had struck it, desk in the nerve centre of his fussing about clothes being of Shanghai, Past District Grand Senior Warden, Grand Lodge of

and the telephone (which she vast organisation fussing over marked in two places and ties North China.

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

5 OR possibly these free paper patterns in one of his

two men are married. "You seem to be in trouble, women's magazines were going to fussy wives.

I once knew a wife so fussy Miss Bosh," I said, in the kindly to be for the coming year-the tones which are also so irritat usual dun brown or plak? He that a divorce sprang from the ing. "Did you always run your fussed his secretary till one day apparently insignificant fact of desk in this comic manner 7" she started to scream and got a her husband squeezing a tooth- THE DANZIG

holiday at Capri out of it. plaste tube in the middle and not,

as it should be, at the end. ADJUSTMENT

"Perhaps I am fussy," she ing! I fuss. Which only in-

said. "But I simply couldn't bear There is so much tension and flames the fusser all the more,

to see him doing it that way." Miss Zasu Pitts has not won unrest in international affairs fame as an eccentric, but as a

2 MR. GLOOMY must

3 THE fussy mother The trouble is, of course, that have broken the

ought to be locked we fusa because we don't stop at the present moment that the genuine person whom we all heart and punctured the nervous successful adjustment of the recognise as

A generation of fussy to think the thing out proper- highly developed system of many a secretary mothers can ruin a whole na- ly. specimen of the "O me, my, He is a champion fusser. He tion. They are a terrible type. Danzig question, which last year O my!" neurosis, > threatened to result in a big Here are some victims of

tracked. There is no need to flare-up, is most reassuring. It what was once a rather amusing

Idiosyncrasy. The pace

of And then an hour, later, "You "Oh, doctor, little Willy has a fuss, no need to fuss at all, will be recalled that in July last modern life has knocked all haven't forgotten about that most extraordinary

Just at this moment I am.. Herr Greiser, the Nazi President or nearly all-the humour out memorandum to Mr. Blink, have bump on his head. I don't fussing as to how I ought to of the Danzig Senate, made a 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

attack, before the may

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 over since he had more. My mind is made up. finally, "Don't forget about that the bump, and with all the The way to end an article is Blink memorandum.

influenza going round I wonder right In the Russia of Chekov and whether you think it would ba tion with Danzig. Mr. Lester secretary. She had a hatred of Turgenieff: the secretary would better if I put him to bed just should resign, he declared, and, sharpened pencils and note have turned one day and given for a couple of days' rest. Of books. Also of files. Her desk him what-for in a hair-raising course. I don't think the bump more, his post should be abolish-was always littered with carbon and hysterical scene. Now they actually has anything to do ed and the functions transferred copies. If you said: "Miss Bosh, just catch the disease them with the paleness, but you can't

the Senate. The Council, would you take a letter for me, selves 'or fade away. however, unanimously supported please?" there was an agonising three minutes while she

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the High Commissioner, and sharpened a pencil and found a instructed the Polish delegation piece of paper to take down her (Poland is responsible for shorthand.

"Oh, yes," she would agree.

book.

up.

Fussing is the product of a gives an order like this: "Send Ask any doctor. They usually mind either repressed or one- a memorandum to Mr. Blink fuss about health. about the expenses sheets."

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SUCCESS IN LIFE

10

I would, however, commend to you

This surely is the

By Professor.. William Wright

(IN AN INTERVIEW)

What You Learn at School

doors of your school or college close behind you that in my opinion your real education begins. Your person- ality, enchained for many years is. now in your own hands-free and unfotiered.

What are you going to do with it? Surely the answer must be that you will watch over it and attend to it. with all the assiduous care which master gardener would bestow on the rare and delicate plants placed in his charge.

Of general measures to be adopted

Danzig's foreign relations) to "Don't you find a notebook is enquire into a number of points better and more efficient for re in the dispute, particularly cording notes?" I used to ask evidence of the direction of her. Danzig Nazls from Berlin, The

ANY of my readers will not special Danzig Committee, under But she never used a note- MAN

When I asked her, say, unnaturally think of success in Mr. Eden, was enlarged, and its to send a book to some one, she terms of honours and possessions. report has now been accepted by had a habit of calling me up at and it would be affectation not the League Council. Not only home late in the evening and pretend to desire them. For such so, but Herr Greiser has under- | saying, "Oh, about that book success I would give you three simple taken to co-operate loyally with you wanted to send Mr. Gasper rules; never be satisfied with any the new League Commissioner. did you want a boy to take it thing but your best; do something These developments are rightly by hand or could a boy take it more, however little, than what you

by hand later in the evening are engaged to do; do it cheerfully, regarded as a distinct contribu- you see his office is shut and Plato's definition of what he con- The cultivation of the mind charac- tion towards European peace. you might just as well send it sidered was the successful man--he ter le matter of education Nature First Then Books The Danzig situation had until by post I don't know just what who, when his time came to depart tain people hold that in the formation recently no longer been a mat- you would want if the boy this life, left with the goodwill of all of these heredity is everything and

of hope. ter of friction between Germans doesn't take it to-night will the with goodwill to all, and not devold education but little. Others think I know of none as good, certainly noblest that education is, or may be, the none better than, that of socking form of success, one which owes more important of the two: Not to communion with Nature For many and Poles, with the League hold-post do?"

And I would reply, doubtless nothing or little to fortuitous cit believe that education can contri- centuries Man lived in direct and ing the balance as far as, possi-

cumstances, one moreover within the bute much would be to imply the intimate companionship with her. nch of all. How can success be futility of all our educational efforts. almost down to the beginning of the last century, - when `modern In- ble. Following the Institution with irritating placidity: "Miss

attained? Only, I believe, by re Education, as I understand it, never of the Nazi regime in Germany,

talning your individuality and by ceases, although it is more active at dustrialism swept him into densely

The ponulated towns.

she has been the there had been a strong move-On the prosale matter of Dan- cultivating your mind and character. certain periods than at others

To retain your Individuality in education which we receive is. In/of forgotten For long periods cher ho knew, It would have ment of imitation in Danzig, zig's bread and butter, Poland

opinion, merely preliminary. only teacher ha these days is no easy matter. The my

with this long expert- where the small majority of and the Polish hinterland

great rush of life, the large maar of What you get at school and indis- been strange unconscious

onscious, had not been established. Nazis nimed at setting up a dic-through which the Vistula flows information presented for your con- pensable they are-are the tools ence a close relationship, conscious or

for whereby you may educate yourself. the dominating factors.sumption, the short time left

thought und reflection, all tend to You learn there the alphabet of of the existence of such relationship tatorship of their own, with the are

doubt as I have that ore I have as ultimate purpose of making the Poland could cut the throat of destroy it. We incline to slip back many arts and sciences. You

the most calming and steadying h a good deal of informatior fluences in life Free City part of Herr Hitler's Danzig's trade in a week. Ger- and become mere members of the taught how to reason, you are sup- by fallure to foster it we lose one

piled with a comman herd.

aroused, your Third Realm. The opposition; [many has shown that she values

We may, however, retain it by your interests are

We may go to Nature with including trade unionists, liber the friendship of Poland by set refusing to be unduly rushed, by character generally is chastened and n's and conservatives, however, tling her differences with the selecting the information we will re-disciplined the ground is, so to ledge derived from years of study of ceive, and by steadily. Persisting speaks, prepared; but that you receive one or more of the natural sciences, much education as I define it I' or we may go simply with interest. stood firm. They have always Poles for a period of ten years in our resolve to find time at all coste venture to doubt and with a soul attuned to these two stood for Danzig's remaining a Happily, the League's efforts to for thought and reflection. If we

On leaving school and college your volees of which Wordsworth speaks. pass at once to start work in life, and one of the mountain, the lonely hills other of the aen with its sternal tho free und independent city, with adjust the problem have now follow this course we call preserve our individuality; if we do not, we a demand that the Constitution, met with success, and not the are, in grave danger of losing it, and the claims made upon your me fur note of andness anvoices never more

audible than when wo we do lose it we will lose the most the acquirement of technical skill and which safeguards their political least factor in easing the sit-interesting and precious possession protezaloniai knowledge are such that

should be legally

uption has been, the apparent exer- which we have. In the later years ittle time is available for the cultiva alone. held as it has legally been under cise of restmining influences of life for our opinions to be but the ton of your mind. It in caland Another method whereby you can shadows of another's la to be spiritual- I should like to impress this upon you cultivate your personality is by the

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