The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-06-20
EVERYBODY HAS A MANIA.
Scientists Collect List of Manner
isms and Give Them High
Sounding Names.

Are you maniac? What a per-
sonal question? What an absurd
suggestion. OF course you are not
at least, you don't think you are,
says Pearsons Weekly.
Mental scientists think other
wise, and they have just invented
frightful list of names for our
maniacs. After all, maniac is
only a person suffering from
mania. and although the word is
associated in our minds with the
inmates of asylums, there are 9TH
ers," as the catch phrase says:
Mother. Johnny will have to
see a doctor at once" any fond
father might well say after read
ing the British Medical Journal;
''the poor little fellow has undoubt-
eddy got 'stomadocatyloman
As a matter of fact, the awfuI
sounding disease is really not dan
gerous, and is only the baby habit
or mania for sucking the fingers
under the selected scientific name.
No fretful little miser will ever
dare TO bite his nails again after
the latest addition to our knowl-
edge Tell him he IS o regular
''onych and if that
does not brighten him nothing will.
There is hardly a single person
man, woman or child-who IS
not the victi II OF some mania or pc
culiarity, many of which have been
allotted blood-curdling names. Ey-
cry one has at some time or the
other seen distressing examples OF
the "equimaginomania." Probably
they didn't recognize the disease
under its scientific title. No doubt
the afflicted person did strike them
as being possessed of a quaint hab-
it. but when they saw he OF the
riding breeches and leggins switch
! ing his legs under the vain impress
sion that he was bestride horse,
/ they mad no idea his case was so
serious.
! There is, after all, some good
reasons for the modern craze among
men to ruthlessly chop off their
: boards or mustaches. The practice
1 is really akin to vaccination. It
/ guards, or is said to guard, our
sacred person from the terrors or
! smallpox, and in the razor lies our
chance of becoming "mustachio-
strepomania." Once we allow our
mustaches to grow we are in dan
ger. and If we find ourselves tWiri-
ing flowing military ornament
or nervously lingering stubby up
per lin we are infected with the
deadly disease.
Now that the holiday season is
coming along, many of us will be
going to the country for a fort
might, and in the fields and quiet
lanes we may at any moment Dc
confronted by a "capillionirrfoman
. lac"
We need not stay at home OIL
purchase Browning automatic fol-
: fear of meeting one of these man
, iacs for If we do his special form
, of disease will only evince itsel
in the oft-obseryed habit of push
ing the hat to the back of thu
nGan ana scratching lHb SSdip, SCi
orally prior to answering any ques
= ton on subjects which call TO
j more consideration than remarl
on the weather or the state of tn
I farm crops.
The bulk of these maniacs whiel
science has tabulated might wei
be left at large, but they have 10
+ Gated and named-as the natural
Il lists says-pne species which harm
less though it is, is nevertheless
nuisance to mankind. The ma
I or woman who strums on tn
window pane or desk, the peopl
who insist on humming tunes wit
utter disregard to the authors o.
iginaI Intentions, and the souifr
| looking youth, who persists |
whistling doleful melodies in
more or less minor key have a
been cIassed under the heading
| of harmoniomaniacs" and as sue
should be shut up away from the
fellowmen until they are qui'
cured
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