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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 1,

Do Women Prefer Good Men Or Bad?

Here's Something For You To

Argue About

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suits just the war If you are looking for an argu-12,000 years ago in Nineveh and for a child Sho ment that has to do with love, per-doubtless long before that, in Java, it makes her haps we can supply you with one when a jilted pithecanthropus was because she likes to to-day. It is Helen Brown Norden's heard muttering: "I give her all needs her. contention, as revealed in her re-the best dinosaur eggs, and look cently published book, "The Hussy's what she has done! Gone and run Handbook" (Farrar and Binehart), off with that baboon-faced guy from that no woman ever has loved a over the mountain.” man for his good character.

Take it or leave it, readers. You Type No. 2 is pictured as the apt to he "Men of good character," it is are asked merely to determine if it man who abuses women physically cles, a asserted, "can win respect, admira-1is true that abuse from a man is or verbally. The explanation here more irresistible to a woman than is that women always have loved tion, and foudness, but no woman ever will toss her bonnet over the the kind and solid virtues. windmills of the world for him.” The different types of men We gather, from the author's com-out for inspection regarding ments, that a woman would choose aforementioned argument theme to devote her heart to an irrespon-cited as: sible and often disreputable man in preference to a solid citizen.

There's your argument. Becom- ing personal, as women invariably do in argumentation, we predict more women claiming they married the man now sharing their lives because of his goodness, his kind- ness, and his thoughtfulness than because of the attributes Miss Nor- den places above these as lures to the woman in search of a mate.

GOOD QUALITIES FAVOURED

Furthermore, we agree that more men are married for their good qualities than for their weaknesses, cruelties, bad reputations. Our pre- mise is based on the fact that there are more men of "solid citizen” character traits than of the type] our authority might lead us to be. lieve runs rampant.

For every man who allows a wo- man to support him, at least one woman may be produced whose role as wife is as viciously planned to give nothing constructive to the great adventure and to take every- thing. For every bullying, nagging man there is at least one feminine counterpart, if not more.

And philanderers among the so- called fair sex, in recent times at least, appear to this observer to be quite an numerous as among the other sex. Look at the husband grabbing, the home wrecking wolves in feminize clothing who prowl the highways and the bypaths to-day.

But it was an argumentative topic we promised you, and such we'll give

ACCORDING TO FABLE

In her book Miss Norden cites the following fable to prove her point.

"Once upon a time a young man fell in love with a young woman So he did everytking he could think of to, please her and to anticipate her every wish. He was consider-

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tough and violent men. "Women," If your evening wrap is velvet, laid says Miss Norden, are the savage match it with a velvet "babushka," the sex, and it is for this reason they one of the new little boats, protec- are fall for and cling to the men who tive to coiffures and much high style

bully them."

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