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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 11, 1938.

What Women Really Think

doubt you think yourself more intelligent than you were at sixteen. K so, you're wrong.

At sixteen intelligence reaches its full height. After that know ledge and experience increase. As you grow older, you grow wiser.

Or, maybe, just wider, as the case may be.

But your intelligence at sixty is no greater than it was at sixteen.

That is why youngsters often infuriate their elders.

They have just as much, intel- ligence, but not as much sense.

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The other day,.for instance a charming sixteen-year-old - maiden

from.

of the "modern" schools explained the facts of bife, death, social ethics and the international situation to me.

Of Men!

who is perfect and stand men. as someone. can't be wrong is going to find it ing to. difficult to acquire a mature inter- est in other men and women.

Nineteen thinks:

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to twenty-five, she

"Well, really, my parents don't understand the younger generation but you can't very well expect them to."

Thirty-five-ish, she decides: "Well, of course, they were wrong about lots of things you but they were amazingly right in can't stop the world changing

things.

important

.many

things."

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It was all said with such clarity, The ways of 2 MAN are a precision and forthrightness that, mystery to all women with the for the moment, I lost confidence exception of those innocent crea- and felt I was just a slobbering, tures who tell you: "Men are quite *sentimental senile.

simple just grown-up children. Feed 'em. Nurse 'em.~ Listen to them talk. But keep good dis- cipline. That's the lot."

- And I got round to thinking of the way women's opinions change with the years.

Take those three subjects "your parents, men, and

more serious- infidelity.

At sixteen the girl of to-day thinks about her PARENTS:

They think it safer and wiser to delay emotional maturity and games are excellent, of course, for a well-balanced life.

But such parents and

are short-

Doesn't think of try sighted. Their policy is not safer

if anything, more dangerous. She takes them for granted and There's something not quite dreams of a prince.

right about a lambkin who hasn't He may be crooner, film star, even dreamed of her Prince tennis champien, devil-chasing par“. Charming. son, an author with distinguished brains.

Or just an ordinary prince with a steady job, in the Post Office.

And yet.

From her ranks are recruited: The spinster-minded.

The women who devote their lives exclusively to the dumber animals.

The women who some day, sud- denly, wake up emotionally, and do something really stupid and im-

I was chatting the other night pulsive. with 2. distinguished Viennese woman psychologist.

The women who marry without understanding and unselfish feel- She has spent the last year do- ing and are cold or calculating or unhappy, and have to put up a shor to conceal it all.

BY-

HENRY HARRIS

ing research in the psychology of the adolescent girl.

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Twenty to twenty-fiveish, a girl - if not married -is apt to grow a little defensive about men. Puzzled a little and rather critical, she cries; "Are all men rogues? Or rascals? Or fools? Or what?” ·

Thirty-fiveish, she has a husband and a pair. And still man is a bit of a mystery.

If she's sensible, she now knows that it wouldn't be fun if men and women didn't keep each other güessing a little.

To

But the ways of a women are a

What struck her was the number mystery even to women. I've of English girls who, at sixteen, this is met only two who could tell me seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, have

anything useful about their own never dreamt of a fairy prince sex

who are emotionally immature,

Wielding a racket, brandishing a

the average lambkin, hockey stick, riding a horse, swim- INFIDELITY is but a word. That ming the newest crawl, dancing men are fickle has not come to her about the Big Apple these are the ears. stuff of which their drezins are made. These are their thrills.

Some parents like it that way.

"Really, my parents aren't as wise as all that. They don't know everything.” Which is all to the good.

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What do women think men?

The girl who cannot grow out of- The average, healthy, sixteen the child's conception of a parent year-old lambkin doesn't under

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**When I do meet my Prince we'll be happy for ever and ever and ever. How else could it be?"

Twenty-five if Prince hasn't graduated intó Husband is wou- dering.

"I can get him — but can I trust him? How long will he wear?"

Sensible Thirty-five- and don't think you've just got to be thirty- five to be sensible! has made up her mind. - "Yes! I can keep him

if know how!”

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And now — have a good time! Tell me where I'm wrong. Put me right. I think I can take it.

But please remember I've been discussing a general type the Average Woman

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