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WHY I AM GLAD I AM A
THE MORE DESIRABLE SEX:
YOUNG AUTHORS GLAD THEY ARE "WHAT THEY “ARE.”
Two of England's youngest authors, Mr. Derek Walker-Smith and Miss Mary Grace Ashton, express views piquantly at variance in discussing in the one case I am Glad I am a Man" and in the other "The Joys of Being a Girl." Mr. Walker-Smith, who is 10 and was educat ed at a well-known public school, created much controversy in. May with his public school novel Out of Step." Miss Ashton, now 21, published a successful novel at 16, and has since written two more..
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ect, and, being god and goddess, were able to apply a very practical test: they made the seer Tiresias spend ten years as a man and then ten as a woman, after which he was invited to judge which was the pleasanter existence. He decided in favour of woman. So, more recent ly, did Virginia Woolf in "Orlando.* But I am going to be bold enough to fly in the face of both these authoritative pronouncements.
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of something which not infrequently † Even a backward young woman has looks very much like that last by the time she is twenty decided straw.
conclusively all the problems of ber It isn't even if they are likely life.
There is a common delusion that to do the things that men do na well as men can. Of course, they marriage is unimportant to us.
no longer, our only aren't for men as a type are is indeed bigger, stronger, more intelligent pathetic hope; but it is no less and better looking than woman, earnestly a hope than it was to our And it is because women cannot ac repressed and one would 'imagine our exceedingly depressed grand- things on the whole as well as met that they are so insistent on their mothers. There is a strange, un- capabilities, and often self-asser looked-for- similarity between the tive; they feel they must be, be fainting heroines of "Sense and cause they realise that their posi-Sensibility and their severely tion is not well-established like practical descendants of to-day. But emancipation from whiskered men's and needs constant bolstering papas and crewel-work screens en- up. This has the further effect of tails the immeasurable blessing of an outlet for our age-old and un- changing qualities. We have always rendering them restless creatures..
can speak had minds; now we
I don't see how any man can reasonably regret his sex: nor how any woman can reasonably refrain from wishing it were possible to change hers. They talk big about the glories of their sex, but I What Have They-Dons? auspect it in a bluff. And there is In the nineteenth century there evidence for it, too. For I find that I forgot to finish the story of Zeus, was a distinctly feminine life; the Hera and Tiresias and its conclu- feminine sex was at least an entity, sinne significant When Tiresias gave his verdict in favour of women which it is very far from being to-
Herz was so enraged at the false day. Though it may sound para-ness of it that she struck him with doxical, I do not hesitate to say blindness. Which shows what her that fundamentally women have feeling was. It is a pity that all less independence to-day, in spite women are not so honest about it...
"SURPLUS" WOMEN.
of all their vauntings, than at any other time. They might have had- a very great and a very real inde- pendence I agree they had a great chance when they won their "eman- There Cannot Be Too Many! cipation "the term is their own- but they missed it. They could have The supreme advantages attached built up a full, new, feminine life. to being a girl afe to me, so mani They could have evolved new ideals, fold and manifest that every time introduced new standards, and think of them I grow quite hot postulated new beliefs; they might with gratification. In the midst of have made a revolution in speech, so much talk about girls-sports dress, manners and customs. They girls, business girls, Society girls
let me just consider how delightful might,, in short, have added some conerete contribution: to life; they it is to be merely a girl. might have taught men something in the art of living.
What have they done instead? They have been just slavishly imita tive of men-in speech, dress, mode of life, everything. "To be modern has become almost synonymous for women with making as exact a superficial imitation as possible. They follow laboriously in the wake of men's activities; if a man were to swim the Atlantic. we should just have to sit and wait until some woman had a shot, too.
They Cannot Compete.
I am at one, with my sister-girls
sex.
them.
It is indeed a very joyous thing to be a girl. It is to have survived: Girls have crushing persecution. been back-boarded and mittened and chaperoned, they have had quite erroneous blushes attributed to them, have figured prominently in the novels of Mrs. Henry Wood, besides in certain countries and andor certain circumstances being thrown carelessly into the gutters these trials, girls still have their like so much refuse; yet, despite all self-respect. Even now we cannot eacape insults. It is said that there is a surplus of us, that there are too many women! As if there could ever be too many women!"
Girl Champions.
We know all there is to be known about inhibitions, and, happily, we talk so much and so thoroughly about the problems of sex that there is less pressing need for us to read Red as a Rose, is She". divests us of misunderstandings, than formerly but this, while it does not rob is of our maternal in stinct por render us less beautifully lovers.
in our attitude towards the opposite In many other respects the girl We are not interested in ja fortunate. Everything she does boys, who are supposedly the coms commented upon so exuberantly; plement to girls. Far otherwise. No girl worth the season's long skirts, and her suddenly growing shingle would dream of bestowing from her wealth more than a fleet ing and slightly scornful glance upon a boy. A very young man. Young men are scarce, so we hear they are at a premium. They are superior and majestic in conse quence Well, so far as we are con- cerned, let them remain so
When We Love
The result, of course, of it all is to increase the necessary rash and feverish restlessness of modern When we love, which is often existence; whereas, if women had, and joyfully, we prefer an older not merely imitated men and had man, someone who can appreciate struck out on lines of their own, tenderly our responsible minds. For they might well have provided a we are responsible. No young man very healthy counter-irritant instead was ever so full of responsibility
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Queen's Theatre? 'Let's Go Places."
Central Theatre: "The Doctor's Secret,"
Garrison Children's School, Kow loon, Distribution of Prizes, 10 am Lammert's Auétion of Furniture, Salesroom, 2.30 p.m...
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European Mail--Inward: Europe
when she plays tennis she is hailed as the girl-champion when she swims the Channel she is the plucky girl-swimmer; when she gains a pilot's certificate she becomes the girl-flyer: It is so gratifying to be talked about! One would have would have thought that we grown accustomed to and bored by the sight of a girl in a bus, but girls are still objects of interest every Underground railway is still a beauty parade in which, under critical eyes, mental prizes are awarded. Add to all these plea- eures the, one supreme experience which is awaiting the gul-she will eventually become a woman, and when you talk about luck, just think of that!
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Tea Dance: Peninsula Hotel, -5 p.m.
Dinner Dance: Repulse Bay Hotel, 8,20 p.m.
World Theatre:Lopa Trap."
vid Biberia (Mantua) Outward European Mail: Outward Majestic Theatre: "Something Europe i Biberia (Malws), 8.30 Europe vid Marseilles (Martuz), Always Happens."
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Baturday. (September: 13) Queen's Theatre:"Caught Short! Central Theatre: "The Doctor's Secret
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