THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 21, 1987.
She's A Womanly Woman, But
She Thinks Like A Man!
Ain't Love
Gland?
"A different gland, or per- haps combination of glands, dominates each of us. . leav- ing its mark in every physical detail," says KATHERINE TOWNSEND in this amusing
series.
something.
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She's the prepituitary type. This girl is interested in love, but
of her mind.
pene-
She has, by the way big feet
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ing or deflating to your ego or So our advice is not to use a blud her knees are sharp, her elbows
noticeable. because you misinterpret her rather geon. quiet manner. ...or are misled by She's got a barbed, and her long, bony, thoughtful face în- trating wit when she chooses to use to discarding her as: completely in- it which might result in some un-
Her skin is fine and soft. Her tellectual you've been missing comfortable moment for your.
teeth are apt to be large and crowd- WELL, DO YOU WANT TO BE ed, the middle incisors prominent. ABLE TO IDENTIFY HER?
Do you think you know her Her height is, of course, your pretty well? Let's tell you a few it doesn't crowd everything else out surest clue. In fact, you can be sure things you may not have gathered
that any tall girl has a pretty ac for yourself.
If her other Though she has many masculine tive prepituitary. characteristics, she's soft-a woman glands should shorten her, she'll still with womanly ways. Together with be long-legged. her lack of mental timidity and her Her walk may be anything from. well-developed love of adventure, you a long lope to a painfully awakwardHer judgment is accurate and She brings zest to every- can see the possibilities for gay and stumble. She'll be slim-hipped, but, mature. raw-boned good times.
unless a kind thyroid or postpitui- thing, including study or work, both But though friendly, she's digni- tary comes to her rescue, you'll be of which she likes.
She has initiative. But for all looking her because you find her fied. And with her critical mind shocked at the thickness of her ank-
her daring she's deliberate, and she extreme tallness a little embarrass- apt to see exactly what's in yours. les. ⠀
Unkind people may call her horse can be calculating. faced. And she is, to be sure, un- less she has a good postpituitary round it out and soften it up.
To-day she deals with girls whose prepituitary gland rules their lives.
ERE'S your
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Hbeauty. If you've been over
The Girl A Poet Loved
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for adds:
MOR my sake,” wrote the dying In February, 1821, she tells of a Keats to his friend, Char- letter she has had from Severn and les Brown, "be her advocate ever." He was referring to Fanny
For the last 3 days (the letter Brawne, the idol and inspiration of
was dated the 11th of January) the great years of his short life.
he Despite this appeal, many of those your brother had been calm,
Oh had had resigned himself to die.
who have loved Keats
have
to
She has a long, skeletal face, with high cheek-bones, a bony forehead and heavily accented brows.
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She thinks like a man. She can grasp abstractions and likes to.
vast
She has imagination and personal resources. She has, how- ever, the imagination of the execu- tive, rather than that of the poet.
Although she's friendly, she
people. doesn't really need
She's But,
be
pre- quite self-sufficient.
It's happy, she very definitely needs a
little good to say of Fanny Brawne, can you bear to think of it, he has self once you've identified one. It's it as though it were food and drink,
given up even wishing to live-Good
he,
There's such a thing as a pituitary nose. It's big. straight. It's not high-arched, nor fine specimen of a man in her life. yet does it spread.
She's got a warm rich streak în You'll learn to spot it for your 1er that appreciates love, respects
appropriately a nosey nose. Her and as necessary. mouth is wide what is known as She'll live to a ripe, lean old age, a generous mouth with lips of her senses of sound, ell Right medium thickness,
and perception intact. day-in and day-out spite of her occasional irrital
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They have remembered rather
God! is it to be borne that Keats's first description of her as
formed for every thing good, and, "beautiful and elegant, graceful,
I think I dare say it, for. every silly, fashionable and strange.' They have remembered how Kents thing great, is to give up his hopes himself, with the jealousy of a sick of life and happiness, so young too, and, to be murdered, for that is the man, spoke of her as having too much of the Cressid in her. And, case, by the mere malignity of the world, joined to want of feeling in as a result they have pictured her as a shallow, suburban vampire those who ought above all to have felt for him—I am sure nothing the destroying angel (however un-
genius, during his long illness has hurt me them by turns, they betray the flame
so much as to hear he was resign-within her ed to die.
cotisciously) of a man of
writes Robert Lynd in the Chronicle."
·HER ENEMY
"News
Sir Sidney Kong in his monu-
mental life of
And she goes on:
Her eyes are magnificent, and either very close together or very far apart. They're not blindingly How To Date luminous, like the brilliant, restless thyroid's. But they are infinitely expressive.
Thoughtful, quiet, dynamic, all of
in all its glory, By her hands alone you may know her. They're large, compe- If I am to lose him I lose every tent hands. Long-fingered and spade is was so hostile thing and then you, after my Mo-gracefully square as a to Fanny that he even omitted from ther will be the only person I shall square.
im- feel interest or attachment for I Keats's letter to Brown that
If pure in type, her knuckles are In fact, all ploring sentence: "For my sake, be feel that I love his sister as my invariably prominent. her advocate.
e for ever"
own--God bless you, he has talked the joints of her body are detectable, It has always seemed to me, since of you continually.
Was:
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I took an interest in the matter, Less than two months later, after that Fanny had been attacked un- the death of Keats, she writes again: fairly. A girl in her teens, she fell I know my Keats is happy, hap- in love with an unsuccessful poet, pier a thousand times than he could who at that time had little to offer have been here, for Fanny, you do to a mere worldly-minded minx. If not, you never can know how much -ever love was disinterested, hers he has suffered. So much that I do
believe, were it in my power," As for her injuring Keats's genius, would not bring him back. All that the dates of his poems prove that grieves me now is that I was not it was under the inspiration of his with him, and so near it as I was. for Fanny Brawne that Some day my dear girl I will tell
tional cause to hate those who should. The letters from Fanny Brawne have been his friends, and yet it to Fanny Keats, which have now was a great deal through his kind- been admirably edited by Mr. Fred ness for me for he foresaw what Edgcumbe, the enthusiastic curator would happen, he at least was never of Keats House, should at least dis deceived about his complaint, though pel the illusion that. Fanny was a the Doctors were ignorant and un- self-centred minx.
feeling enough to send him to that
contus achieved its perfect ex- you the reason and give you addi-
pression.
Keats, on parting with her to dis wretched country to die, for it is
in Italy, had asked her t
to write now known that his recovery was his sister Fanny, a girl even young: Impossible before he left us, and er than herself, and Fanny Brawne he might have died here with so then began a correspondence that many friends to soothe him and me makes clear not only her love for with him. Keats, but her natural kindness. DOOMED POET
And in May of the same year she writes to Fanny Keats:
The letters are in themselves not Dear Fanny, no one but you can remarkable letters. Passion does feel with me all his friends have not become articulate in them as it forgotten him, they have got over does in the letters of Keats him the first shock, and that with them self. Probably Fanny Brawne was is all. They think I have done the incapable of passionate love such as same, which I do not wonder at, hia.
At the same time, how poig- "Letters of Fanny Brawne to nant her letters are as she tells Fanny Keats. 1820-1824." Edited by Fanny Keats of the fatal progress Fred Edgcumbe. Oxford University of her brother's illness in Italy! Press. 108. Gd.
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