Blighty > Summer, 1918
(21) Page 43 - Discomfortable experiences of an un-Pelman person
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| Blighty and Sea Pie > Blighty > Summer, 1918 > (21) Page 43 - Discomfortable experiences of an un-Pelman person |
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| Description | One soldier is being castigated by his drill sergeant for being too slow in this cartoon. ''BOUT TURN, . . . HI, YOU BLITHERING BEAUTY-SPOT, WAKE UP! COMPANY, AS YOU WERE'. As the soldier tries to keep up it all goes horribly wrong, with him turning himself into an 'ASS' and the sergeant becoming more irate. The caption at the bottom of the page reads: 'DISCOMFORTABLE EXPERIENCES OF AN UN-PELMAN PERSON. / THE HORRIBLE REALISATION THAT HE HAS MADE AN ASS OF HIMSELF AGAIN. / IF HE HAD ONLY PELMANISED!!!' Also included in this edition of 'Blighty' was an article explaining Pelmanism, in which the Pelman Institute claimed that 'between 30,000 and 40,000 Officers and Men of the Navy, Army, and Air Service - as well as many thousands of business and Professional men and women - are now busily training their minds and keeping themselves mentally fit and alert by means of Pelmanism'. By practising the mental exercises, followers of Pelmanism could, according to the Institute, increase their alertness, decisiveness and initiative whilst eliminating forgetfulness, mental apathy and a lack of self-confidence. |
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| Description | This special summer edition was a selection of some of the best poems, stories and sketches submitted. A note at the back of the magazine informed readers that many of those chosen for inclusion had been written 'in the trenches and dug-outs, whilst the Hun shells are screaming overhead'. |
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| Description | A humorous weekly magazine issued free to the troops in the First World War; contained short stories, poems, cartoons, paintings and drawings, with contributions from men on active service. Distributed by the War Office, the Admiralty and the Red Cross, and subsidised through donations and sales to the general public. |
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| Shelfmark | 6.84 |
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| Description | Editions of 'Blighty' (1917, 1918) and 'Sea Pie' (1917-1919), First World War magazines with pictures, stories, poems and humour. 'Blighty' was sent free to the men at the front and in the fleet. Profits from sales of 'Sea Pie' went to help sailors and their families. |
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