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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31ST. 1925

MISANTHROPY.

IN LITERATURE AND LIFE.

JOY THE VERY REV, W. B. INGE, DEAN OF ST."

BOIS DE ROSE VELVET.

*PLAID "IS" POPULAR. WHAT PARIS IS WEARING. Plaid materials are prominent in exclu. PAUL'S, 15 THE MORNING POST'] sive showrooms Rinck-and-white plaids are worked in short-haired hurs for cape We may doubt whether a complete mix-collars and eren for short costees. Some anthrope hater of the catico humaa of the newest plaids are described as Odium generis futurist "cross lines of green, blue, race has ever, existed. Amauri was attributed by Tacitus to the and orange maken viril pattern on a Futurist materials are Jews, but he probably only meant that black ground. the Jews have a grudge against all Gen- generally lined with black panne or black tiles. There have been many men who charmeuse: or the brilliant plaid fabric have hated half the human mee, but they is used to line black or bottle green are generally called misogynists; or, as duvety.

synothropes." a lady novelist prefers, Such men, ss. We should find if we knew

A favourite colour of the season is their histories, have often jumped to the

bais de rose it is really beautiful conclusion that all women are false bo- cause they have Count one inconstantin mirror velvet for evening frocks, on- er they hate wou because Cupid will broidered by hand with crystal and din not leave them alone, whereas women nond beads intermingled with tiny pearls. often hate men because l'apid has left. All the best embroideries, head or silk, them alone." But there is such a thing as are now executed by bund, and some of sexual inversion, which turns the natural them are works of art.

SILK JERSEY CLOTH attraction of each sex to the other into repugnance. Some of the criminal Saf-

For tener and dance frocks there is fragettes were undoubtedly victims of a new material which is having a great this unpleasant aberration, which belongs success in Paris. It is a fine and very to the domain of muratal pathology. supplerik jersey cloth embroidered When we examine the manthropes of nearly an over with bead and silk des fiction we find most of the ancouvine signs. The work is so skilfully done that ing Timos of Athens is pihaps Shake the richly embroidered material retains speare's worst play; if he pto the whole its elasticity. of it, as he probably did dot, so much the less Shakespeare he. iion, as Ape natus tells him, knows nubing of aver age humas nature; he kawe only the extremity of both ends I passes from the extreme of consding simplicity to the

FOR AFTERNOON WEAR. opposite extreme of unival mistrust It is doubtful whether t is true to

Crepe-backed satins are very popular nature. We sed many footparted from their money; where the case is, there for afternoon frocks: and two other mate will the vultures be gathered together; rial, chifun velvet and evène de Chine, but the beggared fool regins an ordi- are prominently fashionable for the same purpose. I have seen a beautiful satin nary fool to the end; he may become drunkard, but he seldom comes a mis. that closely resembles panne, and a new crêpe, that seems to, possess all the quali anthrope. Moliere's Aleste ineties of charincuse.

is much more subtly Misanthrope drawn. He is a disillused idealist,

All the new metal broendes are soft and supple as chiffon. This quality is regarded as essential: many yards of fabric may be crushed and draped into a single gown, but there must be no touch of stiffness in the silbonette.

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A POPULAR FUR.

who has lost all faith in himan«nature. Stencilled gazelle, is one of the popular till he inconsistently, but so unnaturally. fury of the hour, it is so pliable that it falls violently in love. The is a possible can be draped with silk crepe, and the The stencilled designs give strength and type, but not a counter one. idealist calls out the best k other people, body to the dark markings Catacul and does not see human ature in a very is clipped close to give the effect of broad unfavourable light: Thos who see me tail; in fact, there is a big yogte in very and women at their worstage, usually not short-haired furs of all kinds idealists. Charles I. beyed that most people are scoundrels, kit thought no worse of them on that arount. He was no misanthrope.

to a higher gain. For Goethe was right when he said, "A talent is formed in solitude, a character in the stream of the world. The lonely man may do more for his generation than if he had been by nature jolly, sociable, and popular; though I am afraid Sir John Seeley way right when he said, "Solitude is the death of all but the strongest virtue."

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RUBBER RESTRICTION.

THE AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW.

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DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN 'SOURCES.

the_|_Survey,

"COMRADES" IN SOCIETY,

SOME ENGLISH SOCIALISTS.

Lady Cynthia Mosley, who has beet adopted prospective Socialist ca. didate for Stoke-on-Trent, ha a number of society sister" comrades" who have identified themselves with the same polis tical party.

There is, for instance, Lady Clar

WAS recently Antreley, the elder daughter of Priscilla Lady Annesley, who adopted as Socialist candidate for Bris fol, West Lady Olate, who is a me Women's International League, has bea ber of the executive committee of the an active worker in the Socialist more-

Au American viowpoint of the present rubber situation and the operation of the Stevenson Restriction Act is given in last month's issue of the Guaranty! Survey. the monthly publication of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York. "The lack of price stability," comments has admittedly been due in part to the conservative buying methods of American manufacturers, who are the chief consumers of the raw material. And it is probable that the recent rise, no less than the carlier dement ainos-1815.

Lady Tavistock, the Duke of Bedford's elige, is traceable largely to this cause. Apparently the stocks of erade rubber daughter-in-law, whose husband has join- held by manufacturers were allowed to ed the Socialista, speaks in public co- shrink to such an extent that large-casionally for the party.

Lady Margaret Sackville, daughter of scale buying becama imperative.

* It is not likely, however, that any Lady de la Warr, has aly identified great proportion of the imports of reherself with the Socialist Party. She

months represent contracts at any also a poetess of repute. thing approaching peak prices. During the first six months of this: yes the average New York quotation on ribbed smoked sheet was less than 60 cents b.. as compared with a high point of $191 for two days in July. And no doubt the contracts for much of the imported during this period rubber "antedated the actual shipments by many

months.

If crude rubber prices maintain their present level for a considerable period the prices, and becce then sumption, of tyres and other products a "marked degree. may be affected in Such a situation, however, could not coctinue long without automatically bringing to an end the operation of the Stevenson restriction plan, The ex- partable allowance for the three months beginning August 1st is 73 per cent. of the standard production, and the can- tinuance of prices above is 6d. during this period would raise the allowance for the following quarter to 85 per cent, If prices should remain above this lovel until May 1st, 1926, the restriction regulations would become in-operative, PRESENT LEVEL DURATION OF

The most prominent woman Socialis remains, nevertheless, Frances, Coun ten of Warwick, whose home in Eur **) Chèquera ? of the has become the party..

Mrs. Noel Buxton, a cousin of Lady Drogheda, is an active worker in the Socialist racks. As Miss Lucy Palbam Bern and a member of a Conservative- family, she once took a leading part in a series of meetings against Mr. Noel Buxton's election to Parliament, Her brother-in-law's wife, Mrs C. Rodes Baxton, has also been an ardent So eislist

The Half-Circles Club, of which Mrs. Clynes was one of the reading spirita, has been merged in the new Labour Club at Westminster, and there many of the leading woman Socialist workers may self once a Conservative, to Mrs. Arthur be seen from aliss dasan Lawrence, her- Bourchier (Miss Kyrie Bellew, the actress), who recently contemplated be coming a parliamentary candidate

Sir Walter Scott's Blak Dwarf shows the effect of deformity iscreating a feel- ing of resentment in iictim against the surry, scheme of things" which Allowed such a humiliating injustice to light upon him. Som revolutionists have been men of this ye; and there have been others whe fine renson ar But the preference for solitude, a full capacity. Under such conditions length, he averaged 4,800 miles of travel another have received i human. iudcalled misanthropy, is often a mere habit. ness and affection in id youth, and Browning supposes that his Gram- who in ennsequence hatought vindie marian immersed himself in Greek tively for their own hill. It is said syntax because he preferred to purchase that the papopular. Amrican millionaire heaven's success" by earth's failure." Jay Gould was a minn ofhis kind Soft, Not a bit of it. The poor man has however, makes the manthrops of the formed a habit of sitting at his desk Black Dwarf only half iocere.

and erampiling commentaries for eight or ten hours a day and he can no more break himself of the habit than the toper might easily be enn pass his favourite public-house. He is a moderately happy man, but no hero. He sees men as books, walking, and he is more comfortable with the books that

BYRON AND SWIFT. Misanthropes in real fe are naturally more complex. "Byron, so is described by Shelley as gentle, patient, and un- assaming in 'social life, was intensely

prond and embittered. He felt rightly do not valk. There is no misanthropy

that the London society of the Regency here. had na right to, throw stones at him,. and that be bad ideals rich his enemies were to gross to userstand. But his misanthropy was partiriose; he knew that it made him deresting to all

Europe.

Mere society, however, does not abolish isolation, though it deadens the pain of it. Some people chutter to protect their inaer life from: invasion, others, no doubt. because they have no inner life to pro- teet. There are many women in both Swift is the nearest poach to a real classes; it is because women for one s fond of the other, are nisanthrope that we and in history reason and he was more than half insane.

Lady Hester Stanhope, inisanthropes: was unquestionably genius, but he talking that they are very rarely called whole life was marred by incurable mor who fled from" Lunden suciety to live bidity, Incapable of aly love, he was with a few Arab servants, is a very rare strongly addicted to civkish philander-type

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ing He despised hated bumaba Most of us would agree with Aristotle: unture as he saw it others, but still is without friends no one would care to more as he saw it hasalf. He greeted linc." his own birthday with the dreadful text, Let the day perid whereon I was barn." And yet it des not appear that he hated individuals, aless, indeed, they had given him an exase to quarrel with

them.

Misanthropy is to often imputed to those who prefer, fude to society. There are some whee mind to them a kingdom is, und whedislike being inter- rupted in their capitious. Logenes very sensibly asked lexander to stand out of his light; he did not care to talk to young atheers. 9 Bénancour, whom Matthew Arnold intoduced to the Eng- tish public by the titl of his novel, Ober- mann, preferred to be among the moun tains of Switzerland while his country. men were foaming the mouth over the rights of man and gilletining those who cared too much abat the said rights. Wordsworth did mab the same, and so one has called him santhrope. The French Revolution, kefall other revolu- tions, was a mad to party, and a wise. man might well let the companion-

Helwellyn. shop of Mont Blanc

SOLIVDE.

"Emerson describes friend who belong. ed to a not uncompa and really rather tragic typomashy thin-skinned man, who was painfully cuscious of some in- tangible barrier with cut him off from The most agreeable hamun sympathy,- compliment, you cold pay him was to imply that you hadnot observed him, in a house or street were you had met him. Whilst he suffered at being seed where he was, he consol himself with the delicious thought the inconceivable number of places there he was not Such men often state reputation of being deliberately sociable and even misanthropic when in reality they would give anything for the ready gilt of raking friends ad being at home in any company, whit comes so easily to many people. Enfreed solitude may be a bridle of The

well known passag

(to refer to a ofPlato)-—-au antiwel-

come disability with we may even turn.

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IS IT WORTH IT? Are we suficiently grateful (writes a. The only contingency, therefore, in which the price of crade rubber can correspondent) to those novelists who remain at, or near, ir present level travel so far and go to so much troubler for any sustained period is the increase in order to be accurate? I once heard i

n the rate of two and a half tales in world demand to such a point that Mr. Cutelif Hyne say this, writing a shortage exists even with the plan- tations producing and exporting at year, of about 7,000 to 8,000 words in the price might remain high for several per tale. For his first book, which years, until newly planted areas could brought him in £11, he travelled 850 he brought into bering. This, in the miles across Arctic Lapland. In criler long run, is the chief danger of the describe a seque at the mouth of the plan. As long an, restrictiune exist the Congo he stayed there, three scorching planting of new arms will be discour-dars, perched on in case aged. And the growth of demand to I kept still the land erbs came out to the point necessary to end restriction fee if I was a subject for them," he

followed by several id. When I moved they decided IS

was not ripe. I tried to get down what years of severe hardship while new

the Congo were like. I wrote thr trees growing to the productive stage" the twenty long miles to the mouth of

The advance in the price of, rubber,"

"has again sheets and boiled them down to one. the At the end of the third day I had got continues the Surrey. emphasized the dependence, of United States, which consumes about it down to this: A brer-coloured river three-fourths of the world's output of that stunk of crushed marigolds T rubber, upon foreign sources of supply took me three days to get it."-Ez view to determining the possibility of Investigations have been made with a rubber production in the Philippines, duction of crude rubber on att enormous and even in some sections of the United scale. In the meantime, experiments States. American manufacturers bavare being made constantly to develop cases acquired ownership of an economical process for producing plantations, and one of the largest com- synthetic- rubber.

"While those various projects do not nanies, now produces about 95 per cent.

in soine

of its raw material. Another leading|appear to offer "any immediate threat manufacturer has leased about 1.000.000 to the present position of the East acres of land from the Liberian Govern-Indian plantations, they may possibly ment, and expects to undertake the pro- he developed in time to provide a valu- able safeguard against future shortages"

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