The newest inspiration, or fad, as the case might be, among American educators who haven't anything else to do with their spare time, is the] "Personality School," which is cpening up courses in various universities and institutions all over the country. The New York University has one {n its commerce school, designed for business men and women, which hopes to change neutral. personalities! to dominating personalities. 'The! evolution is achieved by a process of ridicule, First the student goes: through a series. of actions which' are faithfully recorded by a. motion'
ture camera. The results are shown to the student and his various defects pointed out to him. His speech is also vitaphoned and echoed back at him, almost always to his tense chagrin. The result of that experiment may be guessed at right now. Hereafter business mon are going to greet their clients Maurice Chevalier smile, a William Powell voice, and.a George Bancroft persuasiveness. in fact it will. be almost impos personality bu Hospitals also are t teaching their nurses to register [cheerfulness, optimism, and a sense of humour. From now on patients are going to be treated to a gurgle laughter along with the morning Jand the persistent, ch so persistent, reminder that after all things aren't as bad as they might be, and, indeed, there are quite a few people in this little old world a whole lot worse off, generally speaking, Silky Noises Americans. have found another noise to abate, that attributed to the silks: in which Julia goes and: the "Tiquefaetion of -her clothes." The Bureau of Weights and Measures has become involved in the problem of determining just how much of the wor'd's racket may be attributed to the feminine sex and have made technical and scientific observations to the effect that the present mode of long dresses, when expressed in silks, as is most usually the case, gives off a fabric sound something similar to a rubber ball rebounding from a hard wall. Woollens and felts absorb sound and are virtually noiseless, but who wants to were woollens' and felts? The gentle] gurgle of silken skirts has generally been acclaimed as charming by those }for whom the ladies dress to please, and now that the Bureau of Weights Jand Measures has gone and-made it 'a matter of loud-speaking rebounds Hhoped that there will be no aesthetic prejudice against that charm, An Incident Recently there occurred a diplomatic incident in Tangier which nob only considerably upset the Amer-can Consulate in that locality but Jeff a very dark brown taste in the mouth of America proper when that country heard about it the next morning via a cabled headline, It seems that a Consular official in, Tangiers rode down to the beach a donkey, a useful beast, of Durden, but surely no mount worthy. of consular dignity. He should not have done it as a matter of prin-,, jo in the first place, and' in mud place it was against the loch, municipal rule. The oficial, was, arrested and the donkey was, im-, pounded and the American Con-" Sulate infuriated, Well: that body' might be. In Tangier they have, plenty of pure-blooded' Arabian, chargers, snow white or jet black, fand while not so economical or practical as donkeys, they. are fit mounts for diplomatic officials. In America donkeys are considered 08 jokes and newspaper headlines containing an arrest, a donkey, and a Consular official, all in the same breath are-—ell, really!—M.c.
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