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His Majesty.
on
similar colourful ceremonies. At
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
Angler's Paradise.
Mr. Shaw has returned from his world-trip. So has Lord Rosslyn And it is Lord Rosslyn who basi brought the best news: ·
first- Haka hand description of the Fishing Lodge established two years ago on the Waikato River in New Zealand.
Lord Rosslyn says the Waikato
SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1933.
THE BEST MARRIAGE CHOICE
SIMILAR OR OPPOSITE
TYPES?
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SEX AND CHARACTER
of London.
(By Cyril Burst.)
is the world's perfect dry-fy river.| Professor of Psychology, University every mental capacity of importance Its crystal-clear waters, flowing! Emid magnificent scenery, conceal; giant rainbow trout ranging from three pounds to thirteen.
has been tested, and we can say with some precision in what ways the average man differs from the
Man throughout the ages has average woman.
Much of the fishing is done by looked on woman night. Electric torch in band, the But, step by step, angler descends a steep cliff by ahas improved, his ||rope-ladder. He switches off his
as his inferior. as her position
Differences.
opinion of her upon the lower levels. Roughly The differences are most marked
torch, and suddenly the banks are has begun to change. Nowadays he speaking, man is superior in move- lit up by myriads of glow-worms, prefers to say, not that she is be- ment and woman in sensation. But By their light he can just dis-neath him, but that she is different-in certain forms of manual dexterity" jeven here generalisation is rash, for. tinguish the faint ripple the Equal and opposite" is the new the average woman is superior, and
as
rainbow breaks the water to suck
down the fly with a gentle "plop formula; or, as Tennyson put it, in certain forms of sensation maz
This is the Empire's El Dorado "Woman is not undeveloped for the angler. Expenses work out but diverse."
man,
is superior. As a rule, too, psy- chological tests show that women, on the whole, bave better memories,
jat £1 a day and, provided the skill · This newer theory has lent itself and are as a rule vivid visualisers.
is there, success is assured.
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elaboration in to easy
terms of But as we climb up the mental plausible contrasts. Man, it was scale the differences grow smaller and smaller; and in general intel- There is a London parallel to claimed, is active, woman passive; ligence there is little or no diver Dr. Mueller's case. In the Spanish man la progressive, woman con-gence between the two. If in ac- Restaurant in Swallow-street servative; man is inventive, woman tual life women do not reason quite hangs
portrait of ex-King Alfonso.
receptive; man is Interested in him- 80 well as men, that is not because After the Spanish revolution cer- self, woman interested in the young they have not the power, but because
of the race. They are hailed as two they do not use it. tain Republicans demanded that the portrait should be removed. whole, as though you had sliced an sexes on the basis of careful tests, complementary halves of one single Thus, when we compare the two Senor Martinez refused with great apple in two with a knife and then we find that the intellectual differ- politeness.
"That is a picture," he said, "not tried to join them again to make a ences, and the mental differences far of a king, but of a man who was
perfect sphere.
smaller than the physical. tending the Trooping of the Co-good to me. Why should I remove
Honour and Obey. lour, his general health is official-the portrait of the man to whom I From this there has arisen a new Jy stated to be satisfactory, owe my prosperity?"
... theory of successful marriage. The For King Alfonso dined at the old view made matrimony a depler-! Local observance of the King's restaurant soon after it was open-ably one-sided contract: woman was Birthday will be as enthusiastic ed, and thus brought it into pro-required, not merely to love her lord las on previous occasions and the minence. The portrait of the ex- and master, but also to honour and
King is still in its place.
Observe that these conclusions obey him.
refer to inherited differences only. To-day, however, we are told They do not profess to sum up the Facts You Did Not
that the best union is at once a actual differences between men and Know.
union of equals and also a union women as we find them in everyday of opposites.
life. That depends on tradition Of this attractive fancy the best- and training.
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The main fact emerging is that, so far as inborn qualities are con- cerned, the two groups. differ but alightly; the individual differences within the one sex or the other swamp the differences between the sexes themselves.
His Majesty, King George V, military parade will prove to be will be 68 years of age to-day the outstanding attraction. The and in every part of our widely-local ceremonies are of added scattered Empire Britishers will significance as they follow 50 observe the occasion. This is closely the Empire Fair, which To increase the light obtained) the
did so much
If you encounter a woman whe one day in the year
a Frenchman known advocate was Otto Weininger, to emphasise the from electric bulbs
in a mid- which public demonstrations of fact that Hong Kong is a part has invented glass rings of trian- young Jew who committed suicide has been brought up
gular cross section to surround at the age of 23. He was shrewd Victorian home you will usually find loyalty to the Crown are plan of the British Empire. The in-them..
enough to realise that, if we de- that she shows all the character- mid-Victorians fned, and manifestations of alle-spiring airs of "God Save the
scribe male and female in exactly (ístka that the giance are made by public cele- King" will be heard all over the aluminum 1601 011 then found to tirely male and no woman is entire however, she will revolt against The addition of a thin sheet of opposite terms, then no man is en- ascribed to her sex, Sometimes, brations, massed parades and world to-day as Eritishers, re-more than double the insulation ly female. The two elements, he them any fly to the opposite ex-
flect on the might of a
great qualities of standard gypsum wall supposed, are distributed among treme. If, on the other hand, you different individuals in differing pro- take the girl who has been brought this time when Imperial and Empire and on the popularity of board.
portions. And from this he deduced up amid post-war freedom, then she world problems are acute, and a great monarch.
may be true to the post-war type. Argentina has lifted its han on his "law of sexual attraction." when the Empire is facing the The Crisis In Science portation of seed guaranteed as to match it
cottonseed and now permits the im He declared that for a perfect But sweeping generalisations about the sexes as such are bound most critical economic crisis it
was necessary that the soundness and freedom from dis- entire couple. £hould include 'be-
to be mistaken. What, holds good has known, such manifestations The pass in which science now ease.
tween them a complete male and Tooting; and what is true in Toot- in Mayfair will be reversed in possess more than the usual finds itself has received attention.
complete female, even though, the significance. Since the King's Professor Shapley, a leading Amer A new electric heater prevents separate contributions did not come ing will be wrong in Limehouse or
Jean authority recently stated: ice forming on the outside of an ench from a single individual,
in Bethnal Green. last birthday the ties of Empire "Even at this close range we can see automobile windshield and molature
Judge each woman aa a unique He-Man, have been cemented and, as a re-the mortality of practically all cur-condensing on the inside at the same
individual, not 25 a stereotyped sult of the Ottawa Conference, rent theories, both of the micro- time.
Thus, supposing the bridegroom specimen to be known entirely from is only three-quarters male, then her sex. the Mother Country and the cosmos and the macrocosmos. There
is an overpopulation of hypothesen; Carrying five gallons, a water bag
the bride he selects should be three- Dominions and Colonies have they crowd and cancel one another." to be worn like a knapsack and quarters female. The vigorous He been welded together into a close When hypotheses are so-rife it is a equipped with a hand pump has man should marry the submissive economic unit. The British sign that physical science is passing been invented to quench small fires. She-woman. The effeminate fop OXYGEN CURE FOR
should wed a manly virago. In Commonwealth of Nations is through a crisis. The world is ac-
quiring a ден outlook,
this way he claims to give a scienti- . A novel watch has a hinged moun held together loosely by consti- philosophy. If there seems to be ting that can be fastened to a pocket fic basis for the German poet's
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tutional bonds, and it is through less stirring of men's souls than in or belt with sharp prongs and easily should seek his or her elective
notion that in matrimony each Sensations Counteracted
nfinity,"
By Inhaling.
blood relationship and a common it is because the issues are no longer
the time of Copernicus and Galileo, opened for reading the time. loyalty to the Throne that the connected with religion and Aristo- News In Brief.
When we inquire by what mesas
New Haven, Connecticut. Empire is maintained in such telian doctrine. Yet deep within a
we are to recognise the amount of remarkable unity. The secret spiritual change is in progress of
The sensations usually attend- maleness or of femaleness, then our ant upon the consumption of al- The management of the Repulse philosopher becomes more obscure. cohol can be counteracted partly of Imperial concord and strength for another century. The reason dance will be held at that establish- which men may not become aware Bay Hotel advise that no dinner is always a revelation to the rest for the chaos pictured by Professor ment to-night. of the world but may be mainly Shapley lies in the necessity of attributed to the simple phrase soaring beyond experience. After all, experiment and observation can
archs.
negative character. The meaning oxygen, the New York branch of Femaleness, he says, is a purely by inhaling concentrations of of woman is to be meaningless. the American Psychological As- "A woman is neither high-minded sociation was informed here re
low-minded, neither weak- cently. that will necessarily be she has no mind at all; she is mind-presented by two doctors who by
minded nor strong-minded; in fact,
The report on intoxication was ' less!" In short, "however degraded certain tests found a curicus.
vet
(nor
much
sible."
"For King and Country." King give us only isolated facts. Physics chairs George by his personal qualities is not a mere collection of facts, but to-morrow what they are to- has achieved a popularity that a structure reared on facts, with day. And there is ob-
Never were perience. During his reign there theory and experience so far apart men are awed into a belief in
physical so overwhelming in its sweep that have been many trying and dif-as they are now. We still delade creative intelligence. The incon- ficult periods the War, the ourselves into believing that matter sistency between haphazard atoms Irish revolt, the economic de.comes in hard lumps. Physical and a systematic universe will dis-
generalizations are all to the con-appear when at last the mathema pression, but always His Majesty trary. An atom is no longer some ticians discover the meaning of cer by exercise of wise and bene- thing that is, but something that tain symbols that they now bandy: volent rule has maintained his happens. It is a collection of events, about. Reality is reduced in the subjects' respect and confidence about to be cast overboard. The lambda (representing something a process. Hence substance is equations to Planck's constant (h) for the Crown and the Govern-tables at which we alt are no longer that blows up the universe), the ment. The King's air of dignity rigid and dead, but the result of velocity of light (e in the formulae)
actions and, reactions of countless and kappa (a vague constant of known has not prevented him from billions of electrons and protons. If gravitation"). They are Egyptian theories, to show how unprofitable showing his personal charm in physical science is at present con- mysteries, these symbols, as dark mere speculation is apt to prove. unexpected moments and his fre-fused, it is because these, actions and occult as Inle and Osiris. When Sitting in your armchair, and defin- quent kindly acts have endeared and reactions appear to obey no law, their meaning and relation are at ing your terms male and female as Were a physicist given nothing, but last, revealed the scales will fall you fancy, you can produce any him to the people and the poorer haphazard electrons and protons and from men's eyes. The universe will conclusion that pleases your classes particularly, It is gratiasked to construct an orderly stand out in a more overpowering
The Organising Committee of The method adopted by the the British Empire Fair, gratefully fying to note that His Majesty cosmos, he would throw up his hands grandeut. And new Miltons, modern psychologist is the reverse acknowledge a contribution of $80. continues in good health, and in despair. The equations would tell Beethovens and Michelangelos will of this, he begins by constructier from Messra, Luhring & Smith to
him that the chances are all against be inspired to write greater poetry; scientific tests, and then goes off towards the expenses of the Fair, although an attack of rheuma-planets moving in medictable compose greater symphonies, paint measure sample groupe of the bringing the total subscribed to tism- will prevent him
coursen,all Jagainst fables and greater, pictures;
population. In this way, almost $8,145.00.
has been accorded to few mon-implicafions that far transcend er-viously order in the universe-order above the most superior woman: so drunkenness and the symptoms a man may be, he is immeasurably similarity between ordinary classification of the two is imposers, aviators and other persons so that any comparison or manifested by mountain climb- working or dwelling in places Binebeard.
where the oxygen content of the Thus we are thrown back once atmosphere is low. more on the old tradition of male] Effects produced both by alco- superiority; and we end with the hol and by anoxemia lack of paradoxical notion that a ferocious oxygen -are: Betarded mental- Bluebeard and a frightened processes, loss of motor co Fatima make a 'far better couple ordination, loquacity, tendency than Darby and Joan.
to repeat phrases and activities, I have taken this, perhaps the best lack of self-criticism and releas
of all such philosophical ing of inhibitions. Reuter,
EMPIRE FAIR.