No. 9
China Mail
HOME SUPPLEMENT
Impressions
Superintendent of
Tchools at Grays. Ken-
tucky, asked the State's · kazal department for a rulingen whether it was illegal to teach ballroom dancing and bridge in his high school, The State's legal department held thai dancing and bridge had become so interral a part of American life and were indaired in by so many people that they should not only be permitted to be taught but their teaching should be encouraged.
Just a few, weeks ago we were pondering on the possibilities for youth in Hong Kong, but we rec koned then without any knowledge of this higher learning in Ameri ca. After all, if children' should be educated with the idea of tit- ting them for the opportunities their surroundings will offer them. the local Educational Department should consider following the American example.
The president of the New York State Hairdressery and Cosmetolo- gists Association, says that there are 100.000 bald spots
cats-
ed every year by inexpert per: manent" "waving. There are many manicure infections, but the dan- ger is only in unskilled hands. Professional standards are needed for beauty treatment just as for
medical treatment.
For the size of Hong Kong there ~
a astonishing number of Leauty parlours, and a still hore astoring number of raved beads parade the streets. Very often one sets Chinese women of the old school with hald spots enused by the gum they use on their hair. Will the young and more fashion- able prove more fortunate? The European women will probably be forced to introduce a new fashion in bats; little « round saucer hats just big enough to cover those patches.
Profeser Myers of the Depart ment of Plant Breeding Corzell University, has been labouring for six years to speed up a cabbage evolutionary process. He has an- nounced his success, achieving a plant exactly, as tasty is the old fashioned cabbage but not nearly so indigestible. For that he has probably received a tribute from grateful husbands. But more than that it is an aristocratic cabbage which, while being boiled. will not "smell up the bouse." I wonder when my neighbours will start us- ing that kind.
Addressing Lenten preachers in Vatican city the day before Ash Wednesday, the Pope spoke against nudism as an immodesty often ex- ceeding that of ancient pagan ffe
I think that too much fuss is made of nudism. A few years ago when backless evening dresses and abbreviated bathing suits were in troduced, provțe felt it an influence of nudism. Women's fashiong have always been a studied art of at-. traction and it is well known that too much frankness in dress is not tlar way to attract the man. The emphasis is not on what is show- ing, but always on what is hid- den. In Sparta, where the authori ties desired, that less be made of Women 'they encouraged nade dancing
Phyllis Jaky
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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1935
No. 9
WOMAN AND INTELLIGENCE
Are Women Playing
A Losing Game?
(By P. A. K)
LL that women have won in the intellectual domain has been achieved by them- selves. Through the ages they have received but scant support › from men. A long history of
struggle reached its climax 'dur- ing the Great War. The heroic devotion of women during those years won more for their canse that all the pre-war sensational suffragette activity. Even in
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the "more "conservative countries women gained their enfran- chisement and an entry into all "professions.. Equality came rapidly. The world was pro- claimed a world of opportunity. for women. At last they had * climbed out of servitude. They still had a good deal of mascu- line prejudice to fight but the opportunity was there to stay. Or so it was felt. In America women, became State Governors with success; they played their part in Legislatures and in Con- gress, and, for the most part, extremely well. So it was, 100, in other countries.
Then came Fascism. And when Herr von Papen. Hitler's
Vice- Chancellor, recommended women "to exhaust themselves" in child- hearing in order that the battle- Selds should not lack their raw material, he was but (choing the general Fascist view of women- Fascism, profoundly reactionary in nature, has tried to thrust woman back into her position of the mid- dle ages-decorating herself like the female bird and hatching eggs for the male. In Hitler's own words:
"In the educating of women em- phasis must be laid primarily on physical development. Only after- wards must consideration be given to spiritual values, and lastly to mental development."
How do the women accept this. reactionary state of affairs? Maria Diers, a Nazi authoress, says:
"Hitler does not need us women how, for the fight, in which he and demands spirit, courage, and-character. But women are not capable of the fight. We are only in the way."
In Italy the situation is not very different, only Mussolini, being a Ladin, has maintained a more po lite tcne. He appealed to the wo men of Italy to return to the du- ties of the home and sought to in- crease Italy's birthrate by sub- sidies and public honours. In 1922, when Fascism came into power, the birthrate certainly did ́ increase. But since then it seems that the women are thinking twice about bearing sous. Last month the Po- polo d'Italia of Milan. Mussolini's paver, reported the results of his efforts. Says the newsuper.
of "The country is defrauded more than a million males, that is, future scldiers.”
Is it a women's silent protest?
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