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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 27, 1937.

Why Do I Make Women Wild?

Women are the funniest things.conceited pup

When I first revealed myself as toad Scores of girls have wasted flowers and

a twenty-six-year-old bachelor who time, paper, pen and ink and three-ments.

ring you More girls were being born than

boys.

wasn't in particular need of a wife, ha penny stamp to tell me that But you became over-confident.

I received a storm of indignant they wouldn't marry me if I was letters.

Most of them came from either girls who had given up the chase after a husband, or the hopeful maidens who felt that by revealing a few feminine tricks I was spoil- ing their chances.

And you women, having reveal- ed yourselves in this great eman- Unsatisfield with your establish-cipation movement as plain, work- ing folk instead of the goddesses we men had previously believed you to be, found yourselves among the great unwanted.

the last man left slive on the ed role as world idol, you claimed

equality with man. earth.

In a million-and-one offices, you replaced men clerks.

Honestly, this has worried me. Despite the heartening letters I

received from fellow- Men ceased giving up their train have bachelors, the whole affair has be compartment seats for you come a bit of a puzzle.

They recognised that you were When I modestly wrote about And after a great deal of ponderin competition with them.

And, unfortunately for you, my the girl who some day might cap-ing I have made up my mind.

You women aren't too sure of dear creatures. a strange change ture my affection, the indignant

yourselves! storm became a cyclone.

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In other words, your pretty little plan had turned into a boomerang was whizzing back among and yourselves..

Mind, I'm sorry for you.

I admire anyone who engineers a deep-laid scheme. And I am heartily sorry when this plan goes wrong

But why throw a fit of stark hy- steria when I point out what all the (world knows that your little tricks and hints and oglings and mammer- isms are as familiar to the every day man as the form of his fav ourite football team?

You're not quite sure of your- selves in this bewildering modern world. You have won a place in in- dustry, you have got the wote, you have established your right to sun- bathe in the near-nude.

Yet all the time you keep on ask- ing yourselves.

"Is it all worth while? Is this the right way to attract the boys?”

You look at pictures of Victorian women, superb in their elaborate gowns, embroidered bodices, im- posing bustles and sweeping trains.

And though you pity them for the things they had to put up with, you're secretly wondering whether they, not you, possessed the secret of attracting men in the speediest and most convenient fashion.

You console yourselves by at- tracting the glances of some poor, sex-starved mutt who hasn't the money to take a girl out for the evening.

You are delighted when, follow- ing a close scrutiny of his moony glances, his awkward gestures and impaired appetite, you decide he is in love with you.

Of course, he's in love with you: But is he worth marrying? And nobody knows better than yourselves that the eligible bache lor, the man who really would make a good husband, the fellow who's: going to get on, is becoming less and less interested,

That is why you were mad when said that the intelligent, modern young man has weighed the advan- tages of marriage and found them wanting, compared with his busi- ness career as a single man.

Of course, people go on falling in love, marrying and having- babies

That is a natural law of human progress.

But you must permit the wise young man to stand above the gen- eral rout and say to himself: "Well, why should I join in?”

Oh no,

there is a melancholy warning for the bachelor in the divorce reports, in the rush to the law courts which is preceding the new divorce laws, det

· And there is an ever more stažk- ing warning in the behaviour of his married friends, once good fel- lows and roaring companions who are now mere shadows of some self- asserting stupid little wife.

It has already been made clear to me that girls do not wish to hear anything I have to say.

Nevertheless, I will tell them one

thing.

Come down

Thst

away ye

why pretend it is

your perch!

has been

So

rted this article by wonder- why make women wild

know now.

have told the plain truth.