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1925 PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18TH,
24 PHILOSOPHERS ON MARRIAGE.
OXFORD SETS A NEW FASHION. FANTASTIC LEATHER JERKINS:
FOR GOLF.:
COUNT KEYSERLING'S NEW BOOK. When Mr. Bernard Shaw was naked
The day of freakish garmenta at to contribute to "The Beck of Marriage" which Count Keyserling, head of the Oxford seems for the moment to have School of Wisdom at Darmstadt, and passed, for undergraduates have express author of "The Travel Diary of aed to their tailors that, they are tired Philosopher," has just given to the of the famous "Oxford bags."
The manager of a well-known firm of world (published by Niels Campmana,
aaowspaper university". tailors told Celle) he sent this message in reply:-
No man dare write the truth about representative last month that all the marriage while his wife lives. Unless, fancy colours for funnel trousers have that is, he hates her, like Strindberg, now been abandonoct and I don't, I shali rend the volume with interest, knowing that it will consist chiefly of evasions, but I will not contribute to it.
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THE SHAPE. OF THE COAT.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH
ENGLAND?..
Tar 5. VAN, 095, EDITOR OF THE
IN COURSE OF COMPILATION
THE DIRECTORY
AND CHRONICLE
1926.
FOR CHINA, JAPAN, KOREA, INDO- CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLE- MENTS, MALAY STATES, NE- THERLANDS INDIA, PHIILIP- PINES, BORNEO, Em
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** BAOSCHE 'POST, ''] (N The Spectator honours me undeservedly by asking me for my views on this subject, and gives me eight hundred full justice to the subject eight hundred words to answer the question. To do thousand would probably barely suffice. But a French wit has said that every bock can be compressed into one chapter, { every chapter into one paragraph, and every paragraph into one sentence: And, "We have no ordern at all," he said, remembering this, it occurs to me that the for rose beige and brick red coloured whole matter can be dealt with adequate. materials. The undergraduates ar wear-ly not in sight hundred thousand words, England has died and With this intimation Count Keyserling ing ordinary cloth "with trousers anturn or eight hundred, but in sight. Hera ushers in a distinguished company ofed up and nather full. They have no they are:
Your long ers of conquest, expansion, professors of ethnography and psychiatry, longer, however, the baloon effect of a played away her position."
exploration and exploitation begat al doctors of medicine and letters, of both few months ago.
period of leisure and laziness no "un sexes, whom he asked to help him to compile "symphony of marriage." They now seem to be concentrating usual thing in the history of civiliza- exploitation bad; together with your rich made you illuminating all the spiritual aspects, on the shape of the coat. The double- tion Expanson and exploration and
THE DIRECTORY covers the notable and those only, of mas and woman in breasted jacket seems to have taken on enterprising spirit,
ta Sibaring in which their legalised relation to one another as a new lease of life, but it must fit very in the period between the Napolsonic
advantages of a wonderful geographical Netherlande India
Europeans reside Lod iron, éreatures of different sex, not merely as closely to the hips and have fairly tight and Beer Wars. Of course, the enormous sents, ports and cities of the Far East, from Not only is the Directory se fall and complete situation, of cheap cont the mothers and fathers of the next
excellent leadership, and an abundance in each asse as it can be made, but esah Celany, generation.
TION darefully revised each year, the share. All these mulvantages gave you a of intelligunt workers contributed thoir Port er Settlement is prefaced by a DESCRIP unique and privileged position as the majority of which will serve as an socurate world's workshop." You grew exceeding. GUIDES FOR THE TOURS, giving every detail y rich; your riches increased by leaps and in connection with the places, thair History The Information in these Descriptions, consist- bounds, and you accumulated vast econo Topography, ets. easy; or you did take it easy. You took to enjoying yourselves, led lives largely devoted to pleasure and refinement. football, lawn tennis. Many of you came to regard regular holidays as part became globe trotters, and all of Jo of averybody's birthright. You invented
Boxides the usual Alphabetical List of Firms, that week-end-God bless you for it!
on the Continent call la which we semaine Anglaise. You become golf the Directory gives the CLASSIFIED LISTS maniacs. Your leaders went late to their of TRADES PROFESSIONS at the larger office, took long. for luncheon, left the Commercial Centres. counting-house early for their clubs Your workmen demanded less hours and invented ca' canny. Likewise, they spent ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS in pub," the Far East contains the names of over much time and money at the and on botting, football, the "pistures,"
20,000 FOREIGNERS,
The result, says a Berlin correspondent, is a book of real importance. A mystic and a visionary, Count Keyserling desires to help mankind to solve the problem of why marriage is so difficult an under taking.
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LOW PERCENTAGE OF THE HENPECKED..
The newest and most intriguing pects of the problem.are those presented by Dr. Kretschmer, Professor of Psychis try at Tübingen. Under the heading The Body in Relation to the Soul in Marriage" be discusses marriage accord- ing to type, and gives concrete examples i well and 11-matched pairs well on in Maricu 1, 2 bunared m aumber, whom his studied with exhaustive thorough
UI TEIS buzared he found that Justincation of ne only thirteen wore
and chut popular superstition woon grow alike, even in externals, alter many years of living togethe Oixty-three were still the extremes 15 wmperament and appearance they ha always been, while the other twenty-four were inuiderent," offering no striking eigns of having feacted either way. is the short, plump, active, serencij. Dalanced, cheerial pair, who grow to look alike, it seems-probably, one But imagines, aa atoutness increases. as two very lively people do not attract one another, this cheerful type seldom
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Only eight men of the hundred were of the domestic tyrant or "Sheik" type; which, the Profesor assures us, when not due to nervous disturbance, is cut of data Four of these had wives who possessed humour and managed them; the other four had reduced their wives On the other band that popular, couple to pale, resentful, depressed shadows. of the comic papere, the ber-pecked hus band and his Xantippe partner, were only once represented among the hundred.
sleeves
In regard to evening dress this is particularly noticeable, for, we have more orders for double-breasted dinner jackets than. for the old type. The practice of white waistcoat with the wearing a dinner jacket, hitherto only allowed to the Americans, is becoming rapidly
general.
mic reserves. You could, afford to take it
of A hundred interesting articles, packed with facts concisely set cut, and containing atistics of the TRADE of each Country and
The Book is printed from New Type specially
reserved for the purpose, and miformity la avery arrangement greatly facilitates reference.
The only striking feature of the You gave the world, horse-ricing, cricket. port, would alone suffice to fill a large volume. present Oxford fashions are in regard to golf clothing. Nearly every young man has now adopted a leather jerkin which he wears in place of the pull-over. These jerkins are often coloured in most fantastic fashions, cad are usually worn without a jacket. I do not think, however, that they will last very long, for in wet weather they become clammy and dirty, and are never very com fortable.
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THI SHUE OF THE PINS. "One of the most popular colours shirts, handkerchiers, with regard to and ties, ali et, which must be made of VIC same material and colour, 18 particular saade of pink This is very deep pink, with a sight tings of mauve.
The general tendency is to make the recent lines very straight, and practice of making one's clothing tubular has been abandoned..
BROAD ARROW TO GO. WHEN CLOTHES STOCK IS
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Th
It would all have been splendid if it ranged, with the Initials as well as the Bur could have been kept up. In a way you names, in strictly Aphabetical Order, so that were able to afford it, up to say 1900 or any name can be found instantly.
THE MAPS AND FLANS But whilst you enjoyed an een of wealth, leisure, case, and pastimes, tho 1
undermined. Without your boing aware igraved by one of the most eminent Firms is very foundations of that era became of the principal ports of the Far East have bees
vers the notable events The CH BONTOLE of it others rose up and got busy whilst Great Britain and are annually surected and you were resting on your laurels. Whore brought up to date. once you had virtual monopolies in trade,
ant Treatie concluded with the countrie Etern the various Customs Tarita, manufacturing, shipping, banking, etc., together with the Texts of all the most import many now rivals entered the Germany, the United States, Japan, Trade Regulations, Consular and Deart
Chambers of Commer Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, Seales of etc. Your Colonies became Dominions; Fees, Hongkong Stamps Daties, Signal Chinese Festivals, Tables of Money
field;
they set up for themselves, economically nts and Measures and other Com
as well as politically. They would no longer be exploited by you in the old sense. They even begin to compete with Dependencies, of India, Egypt, etc., and Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Home 70. The same holds good of your Secretary, at a meeting of the Discharged of that vast and hitherto very profitable came an end to your unique position is month, indicated that the use of the Prisoners Aid Society in London last sphere of influence, China. Hence, there broad-arrow mark on prisoners' clothing oversea markets, and to all that pertains is to be discontinued. Sir William said to this position; and hence the situation. "Wo are trying LOW remove became downright full of anxiety when from the War had depleted your vast re- all
degradation unnecessary prisoners. You remember how you servoirs of wealth, which for so many used to see in pictures prisoners mark years had brought you untold millions, ad all over with the broad arrow. As besides giving you, in trade and industry, soon da all the cloth row in stock is all the advantages of the financially, worked out, and it is nearly worked strong. out, these broad arrows will disappear.
to
SHORT SENTENCES CEDEL.
VI
I might here also enlarge upon political
mareal Information.
It is published at the Office of the "Hors The Directories and Descriptions are of OG DAN PS, 37
OXNA. Boochow
Peking
Canton
Kowloon
Trade Otros Shari
Changing
Lappa Bbacarui Kongmoon Nanning Wuchow K'Charvn
Pathoi
Harbim Bwstow
Tientsin
Chinking
Paitaiho
Chinyangtao Waha Anting
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Manchurian Yochow
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Hangshow Ningpo Wenchow
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THE TWO FIDELITIES, The individual thence were inspired by the Count according to the quantca tions of his helpers. But after reading the Leyden professor, Nieuwenhuis, on the development of marriage as a social institution, Rabindranath Tagore on
Decent, respectable clothing is now changes; upon the gradual transition provided for prisoners, so as not to trom an essentially roudal structure of indian marriage ideals, Havelock Ellia on "Love as an Art"; Mrs. Beatrice
put upon them the taint of imprison society to a democracy; upon the conse Hinkle, the American specialist on
ment, all with the idea of improving quences of the rise of the masses to great political power; and upon certain feminine psychology, on Marriage in
their position and morale." the New World" Professor Dahlke, the
Justice he continued, was no longer direct results thereof, such as high taxation, and doles to the unemployed; great authority on Buddhism, on "Mar intended to punish punitively. It was which does simply mean eating up your riage Viewed as Shackles"; and Jung intended to punish far reformation. and Adler on general physchological
of the space you place at my disposal aspects of the married state, one finds Unless prisoners were discharged better already diminished capital reserves to
force me to forgo. age-old questions still unsolved, and men and better women the administra purpose whatever. But the limita conflicting theories still warring with tion of justice had lamentably failed.
And the remedy? It is, in its essence, one another. For this reason alone, to
Many female recidivists were poor very simple prescription and a season- find a theory of Count Keyserling him- self on Pusing the Problem Properly" miserable elderly women who were beyonded one. Your own sagacious King gave a speech at the coinciding in principle with a view held hope of reformation. The State would it, I well remember, years ago, when still by Princess Mechtild Lichnowsky, one have to consider very soon whether it Prince of Wales, in of the most brilliant women writing in might not give power to order preventive Guildhall: Wake up, England 1" By Germany to-day on Marriage as a detention of a kindly character for waking up, by putting in more, work Work of Art, gives food for thought these unfortunate cld people who are not and play, all of you, high and low; by zdising the level of education and of "Sexual fidelity means less in marconvicted of serious crimes. riage than fidelity in regard to pulling The cruelty and the wickedness of a efficiency you will, aided by the many together as a social and economic en fortnight's or three weeks' imprisonment sterling qualities of your ruco, retrieve tity. Whichever partner breaks up for a first offender was beyond words. a considerable part of the ground you. home for the sake of a new passion is They had made an experiment at Wake have lost. Not all of it. For the world's immoral than Messalina, who field recently. No prisoner was sent purchasing power has seriously decreas remained, empresa by day, wherever she there for less than six months, and by a ed owing to the War; many former chose to spend her nights," says the system of intensified work and education customers have become competitors; and Ccunt.
careful individual visiting the there are now many dangerous rivale Les married couples keep strict red of care fuas producing very satis in the race where formerly you had a gard with regard to what they let their factory results. It was going very far to virtual walk-over. It seems to me out surroundings see and hear," says the prove that a sentence of six months was of the question altogether that under your former pre Princess, and advocates a certain amount in the interests of the prisoner. Ho these new conditions you can ever recon-
quer the whole of reserve as rogarda private thoughts hoped this system" would be extended. and actions towarda one another. Un [Five. years ago the Prison Com-minence in trade and industry; and rtainty enhances the charm of life missioners in their report said that the that may postulate witch changes in your heralded by your leaders the partial r basis of the perfect homelife is per broad arrow on prison clothing was to economic structure as, are already being] of your national economic transfer + politeness
activities from the red factory to the WOMAN'S COMMON-SENSE?
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Count Kayserling is easily the "bet provocative writer of the twenty-four. He considers the non-intellectual aristo crat who only seeks a life-partner of his own standing the most easily satisfied by citing Germany's leading feminine memories, after long and frequent inter- in marriage, and of all nationalities on! psychologist, Dr. Mathilde von Kemnitz, couree with your splendid and charming earth the Englishmau of this type, the who has long pleaded for protective people, urgo me to say what I think wisast in his choice. He sees marriage. associations not for young girls but for without mincing words, in the hope that a Latin these views of a foreign well-wisher may as a masculins problem only: Woman, adolescent boys. One misses ho thinks, endowed by nature with more point of view in a book predominantly contribute a mite towards restoring Old practical realism and common-sense and German in tone in spite of the foreign England to that economic health and vigour which has to long been the also more capable of altruism and collaboratory,
Profesor Dahlke, the Buddhist, is material foundation of the epiritual an sacrifice was obviously destined to make the best of things as the finde tam the only writer who definitely rejects cultural lead by which she has coriched
marriage as likely to lead to unhappiness the world. Spectator (Continued at foot of next Calums.)
This, he argues, should be easy, as she My analysis and my conclusions are so But grateful originally chose the man, supporting little cheerful that I have hesitated to his view of woman's predatory qualities put them before you.
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