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No. 23307. 號柒零叁仟萬弍第、日玖拾月叁年酉癸 HONG KONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1933. 建拜藏日叁拾月肄年叁卅佰玖仟登英 Price

PSYCHOLOGY F. M. S. AIRMAN

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Yet it is not so: ponsensical a warning as might appear on the surface. It might not be altoge ther inappropriate from a wife who is a botanist to s husband who is a tinsmith. The fact is that botantists asure us that soientifi⋅ caily, from their point of view, these two flowers are among the most difficult to distinguish one from another.

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By the way, dear, I want you, is applicable to varieties much

ALORSTAR, April 12. to bring me back some nice roses further apart in the scale of, this evening. Rosca Please, don't things than is the rose from the THE F. M. S. Airman, Mr. Bert- ram, arrived here last night forget, roses not buttercups!"' batterong. He has a life that. 15 and departed this morning for lived on a plate which we call "in. Nonsense! reader may extellectual," where he is capable

Akyab. claim; no wife would give such of a spiritual perception not als an absurd warning to her hus of bodily things, from which he band."

extracts their essence making of them a mental dish, but he has ideas of spiritual concepts which, by no process, could be reduced to the most refined mist of evaporat ing corporeality! If, thed, the bo- tanist may hesitate about deciding whether the rose has the character of the buttercup or the battercup has the character of the rose, wa need scarcely wonder that the pay- chologist is not always-so-sure ot We, if we know nothing about to himself when exploring the charse tany, judge flowers by their sister of man. Indeed, when we writ and colour, and the form of the the words "the character of man, petals, and a few rough-and-ready we have to pause for a minute to external indications which the sak what they mean. Sometimes smallest child may observe. We do the phrase stands for the nature not go into the heart of the flower.of man' in general, sometimes it We know nothing about its celis more limited in scope and points structure, nor do we worry about to some quality or group of quali flow of... the sap: We ties which under the the appella may have heard the wordtion a man's character" we 'etamens," but it bas never consider distinctive "ol, aan indivi-F occurred to 118 that thero is dual. · Character, in this bunke - is. botanical lore hidden in their ar- undoubtedly, a legitimate Hald of rangements. In fact that if we exploration for the psychologist as want to know something about the well as for the ralist so we character of the flower we must, may linger a little over the idsa with the expert, probe its back parlour, and get a peep into the cellars wherein are stored the vlats: of life-giving juice.

the

***Animal and Vegetable Life:

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Our Friend's ́Oharmatër.

In the first place, let us aKK OUTS selves, what idea, was my "AREAD || we refer to our friend's cheatetara Do we judge, it superficially b his gait, the angle at which he holds his head, and suchlike signs, as we appraise the rose and the buttercup, or do we try to get a more intimate peap into his back parlour for an inventory of the furniture there. If we do, what pieces of furniture interest us most, what do we consider moet revealing of the gentleman "I" at home in his own back parlour

Now I myself, the "T"-or the "Ego" of the experts-about which we have been talking, um much more complicated than the "ross or the buttercup. They have only one kind of life energy to show; the life which we call vegetable life, of which the activities are limited to nutrition, growth and reprodue tion. I not only share these acti vities with the plant, but, with my dog, I enjoy a sentient life. I see, and I hear, and I touch. In telling, me that the word character The books, as a rule, begin by word I am capable of perception is from the Greek, and that it and desire of single, bodily ob jects. I have underlined the words means a. mark, as the mark of x single, bodily For the dog does seal, which gives man, every man, not reach a wider field in his per an individual stamp. He is strong ception not feel a more extended or weak, phlegmatic or energetic urgo in his cravings. He sees on But when we want to get behind the the kitchen table a concrete mut strength or the weakness, it would tou chop, made up in a special the borrowing work is not so sim seem that the dissecting work or -way before grasping it in his Izouth, he does not sit down to reple. I close this little chat by of. flect on possible menu sarde that fering the reader a bunch of de might offer him other types of finitions, taken from Experts. I chop, seasoned and flavoured in suggest that the reader would exa- mine them quietly himself before. other ways. Far other is the out- look of his epicurean master. From them harmonize with his own views, our next chat, and see if any of the mutton chop before him he ex- tracta a general idea "chop" which

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New York, April 12,.. MR. Eugene Meyer, Governor of

the Federal Reserve Board has resigned. His resignation was ac cepted by Mr. Roosevelt ten days ago on the understanding that Mr. Mever would remain in office until his successor was chce The economist Mr. Walter W Stewart: is mentioned for the post.

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b) A disposition of mind re- sulting from the union of habita with heredity."

e) The expression of the per- sonality of the human being.

d) The quality of the "Bolf," and will is its function. (the italics are the Expert's).

6) A system of sentiments built-up into a harmoniously co- operating unity."

f) The sum of all a perso: dispositions

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