Tue announcement of this new disease, "suburban neurosis has probably done more to cheer up suburbanites than anything since the discovery of the unconscious body of a railway-company director beneath the feet of the 144 occupants of a third-class smoker on the 827.
All doctors know that a suggestion of pleasantly morbid importance is the best tonic for the modern ego.
Take the unusually jolly appearance of those Yeomen of the Guard who have recently grown their beards again. This is because a psycologist has told them that they have renewed their beards—
Not because they just like beards.
Nor because they can go clean-shaven if they like—But because they suffer from Escapism.
Shrinking from the madness of the world, the more sensitive Yeomen were impelled subconsciously to lose themselves in their beards. But they would not have known this unless it had been explained to them scientifically.
Gnu News Tue superintendent of the Zoo at San Francisco, Mr. George Bistany, rang up the editor of a local paper.
said.
ive have some news about the gnus" he "Do you mean it's new news?" the editor asked, "Yes. New news about the new gnu."
"But," protested the editor, slightly harassed, "all news is new."
"Oh, we have some old gnus here," came the answer. "But I want to give you some new gnu news about the new gnus that the old gnus have just got."
"Will you please write it?" suggested the puzzled editor, "and send it in."
Mr. Bistany complied, and this is what he submitted:—"I was trying to give you some gnu news about our two old gnus that have some baby gnus: Both the old gnus and the new gnus are doing very well." recovery.
The editor is reported to be on the road to
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