1932-05-21 — Page 3

HOTSATURDAY, MAY 21, 1932,

THE CHINA MAIL.

The WOMAN'S Page

ការបងផងមាសមាហរអោយអង្គរពពួក THE EVOLUTION OF SEX

Eve

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and BEACH PYJAMAS..

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ALL LATEST MODELS.

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PHOTO-SUPPLIES

Kodaks and Cameras.

Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.

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Price Moderate.

A Trial Order is Solicited.

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Tel. No. 23459.

26A, Des Voeux Road, C.

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ALEXANDER INSTITUT DE BEAUTE

Phone 25149. Pedder Building

(Lat. Floor).

Opposite Entrance to

Hong Kong Hotel.

Early Beginnings

Of Matriarchy weigh less.

Ás B

S of the brain of a woman.

matter of fact many men's brains It was asserted that men's bodies were electrically posi tive and women's electrically nega

Grils

And

Rival for Jobs As Clerks

La tok

Robots MENU SUGGESTIONS

advantageously entrusted to the robot clerk, and that these machines never want to go to football matches In the Winter or funerals in the Summer,

"The machine, however, will never

Speaking as a lecturer of con- tive when it is well known that the

The growth of rivals to the man siderable note, Mr. Carlo Bos ap reverse is the rule. In a mental peared before an eager audience of atmosphere it is only natural that clerk was referred to by Mr. H. W. be able to do without the human

Hughes, President, addressing the machine behind it. women at the American Women's women have developed

feriority complex. But now educa-triennial conference of the National

wonders.

&n

Loss Training.

Club, Shanghal, on May 10, to tion and economic Independence has Union of Clerks at Ruskin College, "Any curtailment, by the extend- ed use of machine methods, in the lecture on the subject of "Women's been opened to her and there is Oxford.

"The passing years," he said,number of juveniles employed in Place in the Evolution of Sex." more co-operation between sexes

A re- "have seen many changes in the

offices. in his introductory remarks Mr.than there ever was before. Bos explained that in any such dig-cognition of values has worked general conditions of clerical ser-

The knowledge has of vants.

"An increasing tendency towards cussion, the personal equation is late been spreading around that always a factor of consideration woman la "different" than man, if the use of machinery in offices would to be apparent, and the and that men's idea on the sub-not as strong physically, often times seem

It is no longer mechanism of the counting house is ject was largely made up of his stronger mentally;

matter of woman being either not altogether an unmixed blessing. early contempt, his later shyness superior or inferior in the evolu- "It is true that in offices there is much repetition work which can be

and inferiority complex and histion of sex." - still later feeling of superiority. But sooner or later they all dis-i

cover that woman is quite capable

OWN

of having an opinion of her and man's life with her, if it is to. be any success at all, must be a "compromise par excellence."

Going back into the earliest mani- festations of life, Mr. Bos explain- ed that all fe centered about the female. In the very lowest life it exists alone without the male-end reproduces. All life began as A female. Male sex did not exist at the beginning of life at all and it is only a device for securing a variation of the specles.

According to science, he said, the female rule is prevalent through- | out the animal kingdom.

Matriarchy, or "mother right" exists, from the Bible on down."

Defenceful and Deadly.

Mr. Bos expressed the opinion that the main distinctive feature of the female is her feeling for preference, and that the battle of

ly

A

the males are after all most.

mock

battles. "When couple of females get into tangle they are defence-

B

ful and deadly. The male is a make believe of nature, unnatural and fantastic.. In all the serious affairs of life the female has been supreme, and the early history of society reveals that paternity did not exist while maternity, was all] inclusive."

"And then, because chastity in

this world is usually 99 per cent. women, and even they realize that true chastity in not denial but choice, the chosen males began to

get the big-head and as a natural sequence the women who had chosen them began to be appro- priated. The abuse of females by males is

human an exclusively trait. You don't find it in the animal kingdom! Men made no pretence of finding in their women mental equality and as a result women got an inferiority complex.

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VISIT WILL CONVINCE TOU.

her cycle of evolution."

Speaking of Brains. "Feminine Inferiority has often been explained by the light weight

by the

· POP

Just Cronies

YOU OUGHT TO.

ID HAVE PULLED

HAD A TOOTH EXTRACTED YESTERDAY POP

AFTER AN

NAESTHETIC

HAVE TOLD

ME BEFORE COLONEL

IT OUT FOR YOU WITHOUT AN

ANAESTHETIC

will lead to a corresponding shortage in the supply of trained clerks when it comes to filling managerial and other important `positions."

Speaking of the increasing num-

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

AR WATT.

What to Order frying pan and add a tablespoon of

To-Day?

Titin.

Pork and Beans French Lamb Chops Potato Chipe Creamed Bamboo Shoots Rice Custard Dinner.

Cream of Onion Soup Baked Loin of Pork Potato Balls

flour cooking it for a few minutes; add 4 tablespoons of chopped mush- rooms, 2 teaspoon of parsley, 6 tea- spoon of salt, a dash of pepper and moisten all with stock to make stin.. Set aside to cool. With a sharp. knife split open some chops without. separating them from the bone and spread the mushroom mixture in the 'slit. Press the edges together, i and grill or fry. Serve with mush |room sauce)

Cauliflower. Aux Tomates, Boil a cauliflower and drain care Cauliflower aux Tomates

fully. Sprinkle with white pepper i Rhubarb en scallop

Pour Succulent sticks of rhubarb are over it a half pint of tomato puree

and place in a deep dish. stacked in great pink and green made from fresh tomatoes, sprinkle piles on the stalls, although a little with breadcrumbs (dry), then pour dear just at present. -

own.

Many cooks have a knack of serv-over the crumbs some melted cheese (grate and melt the cheese ing rhubarb as a stringy watery

Dot with, buttell, and concotion, neither fluid nor solid, separately). whereas rhubarb should be cokoed put back in oven till very hot.

Rhubarb En Scallop. on the same principle as spinach-~| that it has sufficient moisture of its Mix 2 cups of soft breadcrumb

Cut crosswise in inch-long with 4 tablespoons of butter and pieces and place it in a basin with mix 1 cup of augar with the grated sufficient sugar to taste, a squeeze rind of an orange. Butter à pie of lemon and a tablespoon (or less) dish and put a bottom layer of of water. Stand the basin in a crumbs, sprinkled with sugar, then saucepan of water and let-boil till a layer of rhubarb cut in pieces and the rhubarb is tender. This enables sprinkle that with sugar. Repeat It-to keep its shape and be present this till the dish is full, seeing ed attractively whether as compote crumb layer in last. Cover and (stewed) or in a pie..

bake in oven for 45 minutes. Serve hot with whipped cream flavoured

French Lamb ChopsTMTMTM

Melt a tablespoon of butter in a with orange extract.

[ber of girl clerks, Mr. Hughes said The noticed that the bulk of the ad-

girls.

LATEST IN HANDBAGS."

vertisements nowadays were for “A handbag has come to be con

part of a

"It would seem," he said, that aldered as essentiar the phenomenon of war days, when woman's outfit as anything else, girl clerks flooded into offices to whether, the occasion be afternoon; take the places of the then called to morning or evening, and more and the Colours, in likely to be repeated

in a slower degree, but none the more attention is being paid to the lesa aurely.

subject by the designers." "All sorts

and that the coming of Eve to of unexpected materials.

an increasing extent in the office, and the results are, a

is as sure as to-morrow's dawn."" tremely attractive.

The union, however, made no sex

distinction, but catered for 'all clerka

and stood for equal rights, and it

was in no hostile sense that he referred to the change that was taking place.

Effect of Equality.

"In fact," added Mr. Hughes, "I recognise that much of it is the inevitable acknowledgment of the principle of equality for which we stand.

"There are many duties in an office, however, which can be better performed by one sex than another, and I do not think man will ever ba entirely supplanted

•

At its concluding session the con- ference decided to make a rapid reorganisation of the internal work- ing of the union from what is known as the "guild" system, which provides separate sections for the various Industries, to that of a general unton for clerks.

The General Council was instruct- ed to frame a new constitution, and rules.

The conference. also passed a re- solution protesting against the in- adequate remuneration of clerical staffs engaged by Puble Assistance Committees to administer the mega test, and calling on the Consell of the union to take all possit

to secure better salaries

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