"Scots, wha hi Wallace bled, Bruce has often led the "day and now's the How the days do fly! It seems only a very little while since the Inst November 80, with its ball at the Town Hall in the evening and church parade of the Scottish unit fat the Union Church on the nearest Sunday. Yet here they again, only it is 1926 this time Instend of 1925, For the last two weeks on various days. at certain hours the local Town Hall has been ringing with the unearthly shouts of enthusiastic Scots, as they pranced through their reels, with a background of hearty groans from unwilling Sassenach husbands, brothers and etceteras, I yonder why the aforementioned are always so very refractory when it comes to doing Eightsomes and Caledonians, especially as they quite enjoy themselves when they have Snally been pushed into it. But they need such @ lot of pushing and ch of them is so very careful} se plain, that this is the one thing that' he has been trying to avoid all his lite, Personally I think in many cases must be on a par with th age male's idea about asking his way from anybody in the shape of a policeman or a railway clerk or ven a bus conductor. "Even though he be in a perfectly that he has ever had causes to visit: previously it simply cannot be done. Questions may. asked privately of some relation or bosom friend but publicly and of a stranger, 'This extraordinary attitude can only be the remains I presume of the superiority complex that nearly all small boys, aided and abetted' by doting parents, acquire in their youth. Boys grow. a superiority complex far more than girls there is no denying, for some reason unknown, while a mother may tell her small son how perfectly wonderful he is, she may not do the same thing to her daughter. And this same complex apparent-which prompts the feeling that 'a ridiculous spectacle is presented by the sight of a man not in kilts, dancing "barbaric dances," and therefore stands in grave danger of turning its back upon itself and becoming an inferiority complex, Complexes are really most bewildering-things and to judge the point where a superiority complex turns itself into an inferiority complex, or vice versa, is one of the hardest things about them. They're really much easier to deal with under the old names of conceit and cringing,
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