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Gloom can be cured

Many people are victims of melancholia.

Many more suffer from it. than need do. Here are four rules and general advice for conquering gloom by Harley- street doctor-

Anthony Weymouth

1. Have an hour's extra sleep every night.

2. Pick a friend und tell him all about your troubles,

3. Don't choose a hobby which you only do by yourself.

4. Run round the park in a sweater; you will feel much

better afterwards.

L

What's

which

WONDER whether you hate severe degree of depression. the word depression as much more, it's a something

I

as I do. But, whether you hate it or not, it's always cropping

up.

fuses to be reasoned with.

you

or

2

would

If, for example,

offered melancholy person an expensive car,

string Now I don't suppose you bet she's a woman, a

priceless pearls, he lieve me when I tell you that I merely raise the eyebrows or shrug personally am never depressed, the standers. although I sometimes wonder Joyful respon such as would occur to Jan or me if somebody suddenly why I'm not.

There would be 10

I have come to the conclusion that offered us something for nothing. it's because I refuse to look too Inr You see, the absence of joy beurs ahead, or to take the world's affairs no kind of relation to the Fireunt- 100 personally to myself. I've decided 'stances of the individual. That Is that te for me means the present, why nitny people who suffer Trom and I don't care a row of benna what depression or melancholy are really all the philosophers have ever said proving that the Greeks were right. about the future.

In other words they're gloomy be.

In this, I expect I'm very much like enuse their liver's all over the place. you. The jobs I've got in do Rive The Greeks were right when they me plenty to

to think about without implied that a good digestion meant wasting

time speculating on the good spirits. future about which, so far os 1 can see, we've got no data to enable

to form a satisfactory opintor.

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ELANCHOLY

Mackled it we

can

be

remember 4wo facts. That Arst is to keep our we can,

LET us return to depression. bodies working as well a

It la time somebody de- This prevents our blood getting con- bunked this word. According to my taminated by poisonous materials. dictionary it means, "To depress or The second is to refuse to sit down in

put down--to lower or reduce the a welter of self-pity when things g energy or hopefulness of

to dis- wrong, but do something to put them

right.

pirit or sudden."

That is, depression

yourf

13 allowing

to be depressed, allowing

other words

Ever read Burton's Anatomy

cf

to be pushed down. In Melancholy"

have one's self- Robert Burton was himself a good- humoured man, although addicted to confidence lowered,

Now self-confidencu is natural lo pessimism, and he wrote his book as every one. It is confidence in one-n cure acif which keeps one going, and It's melancholy. the absence of this self-confidence

for his

tendency own

to

trifte

I always like the story of how Bur- which characterises depression, and

ton, when he begun to feet a its elder brother, melancholia.

Depression is the reaction of weak melancholy, would leave his study in and stroll natures to the buffets of the world, Christ Church, Oxford,

It is a kind of surrender-an escape down to the bridge and listen to the from the unpleasant realities of life. ordinary conversation of the bargees. It gets its first chance when we men- By getting into intimate contact with tally throw up the sponge and put beings he was able to relieve his own off making decisions; or when we te loon. He neknowledges that he fuse to face facts and bury aur head wrote the "Anatomy" to relieve his

of own melancholy. in the sands, adopting a kind Micawber-like attitude "that

thing is, sure to turn up."

O much for depression.

!

some-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY,

AUGUST

1938.

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

"Youse cops is always hounding me!”

Are You

Answers below:

1. March 21 censed to be New Year's Day in:

1522

1837

1751

1485 1003

1000

2. In which of these European countries is there

minority:

Lithuania

Hungary

Delplum

11 German

Poland

Rumania Italy

3. What is, er was, the site of:-

Goose Fair-Bartholomew Fair -St. Giles's Fair.

4. Which, if any, of these ure excused jury service:-

Nonconformist ministers Editors

Licensed pilots

Domestic servanta

Owners of one-man businesses

Toplary would stop if:- People drank less

Ornamental shrubberler

not clipped

Sure?

SPELLING BEE

Dictate this sentence to your friends From 100 (top score), subtract 10 for each word mis- spelled:―

Outside a cemetery sat a harassed cobbler and an e- barrassed oculist, picnicking 게임 4 destecated appic, and pazing at the symmetry of a lady's ankle with unparalleled ecstasy.

12.

The story of Snow White und the Seven Dwarfs is by:- Hans Andersen Andrew Lang Grimm

Walt Disney

13. What is the feminine of:- Charles

Prosecutor

were

Fox

We all had our eyesight tested Gyroscopes were fitted to ships Phiral voting were abolished"

6. Which of Shakespeare's plays takes place partly or entirely

(a) Marseilles

in: See the moral of this? If you feel that melancholy is getting hold of time, do something. I you at any And don't suppose it matters very much

now what about melon what, so long ns it's something which

ali

takes you out of yourself.

cholia?

The Greeks had a word for it

MELANCHOLY is a negative right when they decided to describe

A thing. It can only really word severe depression by the melancholy. For melancholy means Ret you down if it crowds out all that "black blie." This shows that the optimism which exists in you.

So don't let your natural high Greeks considered severe depression

apirlta be ousted by gloom, and for to be caused by a bad digestion.

That is exactly what lies at the every one's sake never get into the friends of self-pity. Your bottom of (at any rate) a good deal habit

welcome you if you always look clear. won't of melancholy. Doctors use the word depression for on the black side, but they will be see you it you are a black cloud that descends on people pleased to when there is no cause to be found in interested in them and in what's go

ing on in the world. their circumstances.

James Agate once reviewed a book Suppose, for example, you lost all your money or a nens relative died, on cows, in the Daily Express, His and, in consequence,, you felt worried review was short and ended like this: or sad. This isn't depression. It's I know or care nothing about cows. the natural reaction to sorrow,

Get

this

To hell with cows!" As he is a much greater wrlier than I can ever hope

descends on him.

DEPRESSION is a state of to be I cannot do better than copy you without adequate cause. Melan- So what about substituting the choly is nothing more or less than a word "depression" for "cows"

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(b)

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Solicitor-General

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Barbers

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Fishmongers Haberdashers

Grocers

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