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INTELLIGENCE TESTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 1935.

THE ARTFULNESS OF

FASHION

It appears that there is no exact definition of intelligence. The learned paychologists who have been probing mental reactions in récent years have arrived at no conclusion. They have applied their tests, but the result in atlit in the realm of polemica. There are general know- not very sensible STUDEBAKER edge tests to determine intel-vives

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BRITISH AGRICULTURE

for their tasks. Such

By MARGARET LANE

believe) that

The Very Idea!

INFLUENZA

Being The Experiences OE' A Man With A Cold-

By Eddie Radnose Kelly

COMMENCING this week we have decided to be a sick man.

Every now and then that old and Į bosom shamefully exposel, and

argument re- far more the ankle...." between women-whether ligence in the schools; these, how they dress to please men or purely

Bat frank display of physical ever, may merely single out the to please themselves. Both schools pupils who have powers of appers and there are met supporters, charm began to pall. The man of arc countless women the period became blase. Arms, who will tell you (and who genuine bosoms, ankles left him cold, and they adopt a prompt change of feminine tac- ly fashions without caring a row of tiem (fatat prophetic echo of the

Yesterday we got the 'flu. pina what men think about them, 19307)-made vells and modesty or simply because they are fond fashionable, and, with clothes Anything we

may write of dress for Its own sake.

mysteriously concealed about to-day may be taken Alas! for these candid but rather than exhibited, ushered in with a grain of salt or five nevertheless deluded creatures, an the romantic era. Woman began

now answered that to expert bas

hedge heractf about with grains of aspirin. question with disturbing finality, romantic disguises and the senti- and answered it against them. montat crinoline was born.

Doctors say we should a fever and feed a

that

do not necessarily mean intelligence, Another method employed in that of solving problems such as that stereotyped one "A man looks at says: I have no a picture and brothers, or sisters, yet the father of this man is the son of my fther. Whose picture is he looking nt?" Hubert Phillips, writing in The News Chronicle of London, says that so far an "intelligence" con- sists in the ability of replying to There is not, says he, a single

"During the frat half of the starve such tests quickly and correctly ribbon or feather, not a puffed they are satisfactory because they sleeve nor a stiffened bodice, not century Woman's position under-cold. In fact, they say that

went a profound development. In some persons have an eye-veil nor a row of buttons 1800 she had been almost a sor-

we are exactly what we eat. than athers. Such worn by woman that is not partvant; by 1850 she had become the tests he says, however, do not and expression of an undying Perfect Lady. In the twenties require special Acientific

or single deadliness of purpose, the she was half-way. literary knowledge. Most of such top-dressing of a basic instinct that

"It was no longer good manners texts are based on deduction and goes far deeper than she knows.

for the man to behave towards her. reasoning. Here Is one devised by

The whole sim, says Dr. Willett with the genial coarseness of the Mr. Phillips the solution of which. Cunnington in his new explanation 18th century, but it was still the within half an hour, he considers of the dress and behaviour of our mode to regard her as fair game. will call for pride in "intelligence." mothers and grandmothers,

He granted her favours, but no "Six authors travel in 1

first-every changing style of usmen's rights. By the middle of the een- class railway compartment. Their dress is to attract and capture, to try she was to exchange favoura names are: Black,

Brown, Grey, subdue to her eternal purpose, in-for privileges; the rights were Green, Pink and White. They are fractable and indispensable man.

prove that

talent

authors."

more

or

There | A CANADIAN OPINION

31

There is no end to the making of new political parties. That now in process of creation by Mr. Lloyd George is a case in point,

says a

the Rooseveltian "New

Deal,"

tr

·

must

he

In that case we are now a bad egg, our hen fruit at breakfast this morning being a bit off.

our

We were speaking to doctor about it this morning just before we came into the office.

"What's the best cure for a cold, Duck"-we asked.

*

Editor's Note: Quite evident Mr. Kelly Is" fll," He typed "Duck" instead of. "Doc."

Eddie's Note: The Editor in a Fool. Our doctor is a quack.

Anyway, the doctor put one of

avec

Am

It's

WC

Well, rum is just as good a

cure for influenza as whisky.

Wal Wal, as they say in Abyssinia. Abyssinia.

still more distant.” (but not respectively) essayist, historian, humorist, novelist, play-

Ringlets and crinolines, how- wright and poet. Each wrote p The crinoling was no freakish ever, could not Korve woman's book which THO of the

fellow accident, and even the bustle hadi mating purpose indofuitely, and travellers is HOW reading. Mr. its reason We never even changes though the 'Rixties

aml Black reads esray's. Mr. Greyour style hf hairdressing except in seventies chunging economie con- reads the book of his opposite response to the urgent promptings |ditions and the increased cost of neighbour. Mr. Browa sits between | of a fierce old primitive need. Bving put early and certain marthose old-fashioned phonographs the essayist and the humorist, Mr. Dr. Willett Cunnington possessesringe farther and farther out of Fink is the neighbour of the play-what is probably the finest single reach, she changed her tactics to our chest and told us we'd weight. The essayist faces the bi-collection of 10th-century women's and her shape once again.

have to spend the rest of the torian. Mr. Green reads a play: clothing in the country. In the

day in bed. Which was chest Mr. Brown is the brother-in-law of museum-storeroom built to house

too bed. the novelist. Mr. Black sits in them hang the transparent classical

The barrier which the crino- The milk marketing scheme, corner and is not interested in muslins of the Regency, the mon-line had boon between man and which is an essential part of the history. Mr. Green

Not that doctors aren't useful faces the strous cage-supported crinolines of herself she swept, boldly behind

sometimes. British Government's policy for novelist. Mr. Pink reads the book the sentimental decades, the lustles, her, stopping ardently to meet

We remember, just before we the protection of agriculture, of the humorist, Mr. White never false hair, and "figure improvers" him with its discarded fullness has just received the endorse-reads poetry. Identify each of the of the upholstered era, the sequins packed exuberantly behind her us

were married, visiting our old ment of producers in a poll

and kid gloves, the long coracts und in bustle.

family doctor and asking him taken to determine its con-

arsthetic drupcries of the nineties. In a world where the numbers |some advice.

"Doctor," tinuance or otherwise,

Armed with so much concrete of anmurried daughters increased

we said, "we are evidence of the way in which wo- every year, woman's mating and thinking of getting married." is, no doubt that the quota

instincts became 15 system of import regulation and

men have from decade to decade mothering

"I wish I had," he replied. the regulation of the home mar-

seriously, changed their appearance nuisance, and soon-the 'seventlea

"What, get married?" and purposefully altered even the being a respectable and censorious

usked. ket by the apparatus of the

shape of their bodies, Dr. Cunning.decade-she found it expedient to

"No," he said, "just thought marketing boards represent

Canadian contemparary,ton has taken his psychologist's disguise them. distinct gain to agriculture, but Each and all of them come for- courage in both hands and written She disguised her person with about it."

Germs is what does it. there is apparent some criticism. word with lavish promises of what though not without misgivings coracting. padding, and braid-it of these methods on the part of

minuto can be accomplished by increased

explanation of thewas even "the fashion, in refined those little wriggly things that common abjecta Įmake a man blow and snort and the consumers who have to pay expendituren. Seemingly most of apparently freakish strangenesses households for

of women's fashion. "AR to be ornamented into higher prices than would other them have their inspiration fromation," he says, "wer dinlike bring forms; the dinner bell

strange cough and wheeze. wise have prevailed, and also by

Which reminds us that it's others who contend that the

that economic cognomen that has explained, and it in specially draped like a statuette: the match- policy lends to a contraction of

become a shibboleth. The central dangerous to explain the feminine box should look like a rastle; the about time we took our medicine, Pete just telephoned to let us mind; there is always the risk of waste-paper basket is hung with feature of Mr. Lloyd George's pro-being understood." exports in the last analysis,' a

frills, and the thermometer en- know it was prepared. posals for restoring prosperity is Lendency to a less econòmical

a loan of £250,000,000 to be spent

"When," he asked, "is mon Understood, then, with a witcased in seroll-work."

coming use of the country's resources.

The great problem of the woman homme on public works. His idea is that and sympathy nearly always It is, however, argued that if a the money should-be borrowed in affectionate and only occasionally of the last century was to try to snifters ?"

We always pride ourself on subsidy or tariff is granted to three per cents at par, to be spent mocking, that nebulous creature adapt her sex instincts to the rigid

is paraded conventions of social life. The our French, and nobody was some industries, the others are in two years and repaid in sixiy. the "typical woman"

the 20th century entitled to a similar privilege; He cannot predict, just as no one before us through all the decades problem of

with her woman, Dr. Cunnington once told going to put it over us like that. could, what effect auch an addi-of the last century

"La Vive Parisienne," and there is a certain force in

change the con mental me, is trying to this contention. At the same

tion to the national expenditure changing physical and

ditions of life to suit that power-replied. "Honi soit qui mal # time, it does not touch the point would have in reducing unemploy attitudes one by one explained.

pense Pit ment. Mr. Francis W. Hirst, w Here is the Regency girl, pro-ful instinet.

"Not a drop left in the place,” that the subsidy or the tariffsted economist, points out that the duct of a nation's weariness frota involves an ultimate loss else-

It is because I would so much he said. trades most depressed in Great ears of war, with her exhibi- where. Even accepting the view

fionismi, her frank talk, Britain are shipping, shipbuikling, dresses leaving so little to

bar her like to know what success

"Mars donc." that it is desirable to afford some

thethinka us likely to have in the 20th cotton and coal-mining. He asks imagination-how oddly she re-century attempt at readjustment measure of protection to how are seamen, shipbuilders, domestic agriculture, it is still cotton operatives and colliers to calls the hard brightness of the that I am disappointed to find Dr. open to question whether the find suitable employment through disillusioned twenties of our own Cunnington's explanation of wo- A century "What delicate mind," man come to something suspicious- method of quota regulation is Mr. Lloyd George's schemes. preferable to the traditional web, Mr. Hirst notes that in the complaing a critic of 1806, "canly like a happy ending about the methods of the protective tariff. Georgian programme the protec-view with unconcern the aides we time of the Diamond Jubilee... "She could survey the past cen- If a quota is rigid, it involves

tionist plan of tariffs on the food meet everywhere? supplies

"The arm, once covered, is now tury with a good deal of satisfac-

(Continued on next Column.) the danger of severe fluctuations Australia, New Zealand, Canada, bared nearly to the shoulder, the of prices, and if it is flexible, it South

Africa, Argentina, Den- involves continual dislocation of mark. Ireland, the United States, the channels of trade. More etc. would obviously play havoc over, there is a grave danger to not only with our shipping but the restoration of international also with the millions of exports trade in general if such methods which exchange for these imports. of regulation are regarded as Therefore, from the additional em anything but emergency mea- ployment no public works and sures. Defenders of the market- agricultural land must be subtract- ing boards assert that they existed the additional unemployment among seamen. dock labourers, to balance supplies with demand, miners, etc." but against this it may be said that there is no such thing as "demand" irrespective of price; if prices are to be maintained higher than they otherwise would have been, this surely in volves allmitation of supply. Another point in connection with the marketing schemes is that producers who are willing to serve the public at a lower price than that, allowed under the scheme are prevented from doing so in the interest of high cost producers. In fact, there have been numerous instances of prosecutions for selling below the fixed rate. Those who de- fend fixed prices say that if these are objected to, the result would be to cut out a system of restrictionism which freely operates under trade unionism. That may be so, but the question is whether the public is so pleased with the results of policy which are freely criticised, trade union restrictionism that but, in the circumstances pre- It wishes to see them reproduced vailing, it is difficult to see that in sphores where they have not the Government can have pro- yot made their appearance. ceeded otherwiso if the industry There are many other issues in-Ja to be restored to something volved in Britain's agricultural approaching prosperity.

now imported

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN ?

from

Mr. Hirst also asks what would happen after two years, when the money for public works is expend- ed. It would seem then that un- finished work would be stopped for lack of funds, and the work-

men

employed disbanded. Mr. Lloyd George, no doubt, might.is- sue another "prosperity loan," per- haps in three and a half per cents at par, redeemable in sixty years. That process might have to go on and on until, as Mr. Hirst say, In solvency or Common sense super- rened." Mr. Lloyd George as an ad- vocate of higher tariffs, and parti cularly against Empire countries, appears in a new political role. All through his career it has been noted that he le facile princeps &S the politician who can somersault (Continued on Page 7.)

I don't want to

"You'd better start rounding up the kids,

bo the very last ono to leave."

Speaking Of Beer

There was no question about it, Pete was hopelessly drunk, and Mrs. Walesteath waited grimly at the top of the stairs for his home. coming.

The clock was atriking two when she heard sounds at the front door. Presently the latch clleked and there were stealthy footsteps.

She smiled grimly to herself as she picked up the broken leg of a chair (u relic of the last party) she had kept in readiness for the past hour.

And now the door handle turned, and the door began to open, incli by inch.

Suddenly who awung the chair leg. There was a thud, a groan, and the body sank to the ground. "He had coming to him, the drunken hound," she muttered as sho switched on the Ughts.

The perfectly sober. burglar on the floor turned over and groaned.

tion: favours, privileges, rights, she had wrung them all from her ancient foe, and now, armed with new weapons and still possessed of the old, she could, in the new century perhaps win fresh_vic- tories over film.

- Unfair Dr. Cunnington, to leave the whole matter trembling on that provocativo "perhaps" or is it half-spoken promise to explain one day with the same ahrowd sympathy the clamorous Arnt decades, the shrill, defiant twenties, the discreeter thirties, the. yet unborn but surely to ba romantic 'forties of the present feminine century?

*"Feminine Altitudes in the 19th. Century," by C.. Willett Cunning ton. (Hafnemann, 12s. 6d. · Pub. lished to-day).