1938-04-22 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 22, 1938.

مه درید می ماند

Men, too, ive inferiority com- plexes," says Dorothy Cruger, who bires and fires.

Are Lady Bosses Bad?

Wherein is challenged the learned professor's blast that women are terrors when they wear the pants.

Dr. Donald Laird, psychologist of "Every woman," Miss Shaver Colgate University, has stirred up continued, "must battle against an another tempest in the locker-inbred feeling of inferiority If TOOMIS of bread-winning women. she is brought up in a family of He recently released a blast ac-boys as I was she soon learns to casing women, among other things, be as self-confident as they and has of being bad executives and based mastered the trick of direct think- his statements on thousands ofling. It seems to me that the so- case histories from all over the called feminine short-comings that land. He says, in brief, that certainly have no place in business women are terrors in business when are not congenital, but acquired by Broad thinking rules

CLUB CALENDAR they are given the upper hand.

woman, he states, wants to

the

The following are the activities of the Women's Section of YMCA for the coming week:

Tuesday, April 26

Day's outing to Repulse Bay Wednesday, April 27 ́ Badminton all day in the West

Lounge

گی

Thursday, April 28

Friday, April 29

for another. Let's see.

No example.

work

these things out and women PERSONAL JOTTINGS

learn the rules of fair play in the Mrs. Archbutt,

A feminist, says psychiatrist Dr. same manner men do. I have this S. Archbutt of Messrs. Union In- wife of our. G. Olga Knopf, whose theories on everlasting man-woman problemsurance Society of Alanton,... Ltd., women in business we'll take up Neither sex has the corner or inita- left in the s.s. Changte m Monday, farther on, is a woman who is not tive or brains." content with her strictly feminine

for Australia She DICTATE BETTER role. So we take as our champion, And now a Personnel Director

fed by her daughter. not one of these low-shoed reform of a big firm, Schenley Distillers. ers and workers for women's rights, Miss Dorothy Cruger, who hires

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mpani-

Captain Gaby of C. M. Cutoms,

Warnes

known-in- -the

Guest morning in the West Lounge but attractive Dorothy Shaver, and fires both men and women for Foochow, accompanied by Mrs. Gaby 10 am 20 cents per head includ-vice-president of Lord & Taylor, the company, finds that if in- and child, sailed by the s.s. Changte ing refreshments.

New York's famous. department feriority feelings are the basis of for Austraha on long leave. – Mrs. store. Miss Shaver, completely the discussion, men have them as baby is feminine in the more flattering much as women. She says that Colony being the former Miss Iris meaning of the term, replied with rarely a week goes by in her office point and directness to the one that several men do not refuse question: Which makes a better be interviewed when they find it is

of Mr. Artik Miss Shaver, one of the most suc-for the job. executive, a man or 2 woman?”

to a woman that they must apply May of the Public Works Depart

ment is cessful among women who work, "Women dictate better than men Colony from England within six might be expected to throw plenty do," she told us. They are not so weeks. of mud on the male who has no long-winded. doubt hindered rather than aided her upward climb. Not at all.

Morning Contract Bridge Drive, the last of the season. 25 cents per head including refreshments.

Saturday, April 30 Badminton in the West Lounge during the morning.

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business is to

Mrs May,

The ceremony was performed by

The Deputy Be

the

Marriages,

witnessed by and Mr. Chu

who wants to express himself.

around cigars. Mrs. Loire Brophy They don't talk

The marriage took place yester- Much more trying are the work

has been a placement director for day at the Registry, Supreme Court, ing girls in the lower salary bracket. NO DIFFERENCE IN BRAINS fifteen years. Mrs. Brophy admits between Mr. Wong Kam They swank in, wanting

Cheang, service. "An executive is an executive," that the prejudice against women son of the prominent local merchant "Leave my hair the length it is, but said Miss Shaver, "whether a man bosses does exist among wor Mr. Wong Low Lam and take some off the ends." This bit of or a woman. There is no differ- but says: "The best possib

Miss Helen Chitz, feminine logic doesn't upset the fence in brains. It is true that perience for a young woman

of the late Mr. Chu Sung Yan hair dresser, who, having heard the women did have a period of adjust-starting same reasoning before, clips fur-ment just after the war, when they under She will soon tively at the neck before him, leav-were shot from the very personal that women executives have ing the hair exactly as he found it. element of the home into the infinite patience in business, that "How else could I satisfy Madame," personal air of the office. The they don't scold, that they easily he shrugs.

period of trial is over, however, and adapt themselves to new Wigs are everyday business in few will question woman's ability alities.

The bridegroom the life of a hair dresser. Accord-to be a good overseer

residing at 184 of either "Now, look at the other side of Road. Kowloon City. ing to authority, there are two men or women. There are good the picture. Think how many kinds, transformations and bob and bad executives of both sexes women are completely incapable of progress. Often it is women who wigs. A transformations is

the and the vices advertised as belong-working with the average business despise women and compare them slight matter of false hair, while ing to women alone apply just as man. They find him overbearing, unfavourably with men. The lack a bob-wig goes all the way with fairly to men. Women have no childish and illogical" But Mrs. of self-confidence which is forced artificial scalp and everything. Bob-corner on pettiness, love of detail, Knopf and Laird have the last on almost every woman becomes wigs and transformations are sent tale-bearing or tyranny. There word in the battle. In one re-generalised she thinks

be

ne Chee

engineer, Tau Chung

to the shops to be dry cleaned. are as many small-minded men as spect," says Dr. Knopf, women arel cause she herself is of little value,

Tall Beauty Tale

Operators, knowing ALL of mi- lady's beauty secrets, tell of the prominent San Franciscan who changed her mind four times and at last departed wearing a red wig. Her choice lay between a red and a white wig, but she finally decid- ed she was too young for white hair.

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This beauty business hinges fattery and no one realises this more than the hair dresser or op- erator who is coyly questioned, "How old do you think I am?” What can a hard working beautician re- ply? She doesn't, she stalls. Then she hears something like this, “Why I'm only 28" a faint "yes" is the audible answer to a face and figure that are a cruel 58

Likeness to a movie actress is the line handed out with unvarying monotony. Operators squirm when a patron asks, “Whom do I re- semble?"

One operator stammered, "I can't

at the moment recall"

The woman gushed, "Oh, all my friends say that I resemble Pola though I look

Negri A few weeks

when I wasn't so

ed, exactly like

Of course, when I wa

women

the greatest enemies of women's all women are of little value.

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