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HOW are women?
different
By A Medical
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one of the surprises for a man who marries is
that women seem to have an entirely different code of honour-if any.
weeks and envesdropped on the
passers-by.
useful in dealing with things, woman found the manipulation of emotions most effective, for dealing with people: much like the modern publicist.
To-day woman still has a pre- datory nature. Outside home the idea of service has not pone- trated her personality.
She takes naturally to parasi. tic occupations: prefers to be judged by what she seems rather than by what she is; by her per- Aonality rather than by her achievement: by barbaric rather than by civilised standarda.
She is far behind the moral standards of a man of her own' class is tolerated as a "gold- digger" when he would never be.
WHAT will the future make of
man and woman?
you will be proud to own, a truck Woman: all that modern which inspires a feeling of pres-sex stuff, you know. tige that suggests a price much Doesn't seem to work
Woman has better endurance' out in real life.”.
for lack of sleep and food, is The other day I met one of my best friends a brilliant versations and classified their adapted for child-bearing. Her He jotted down their con- fatter and a better flouter, better young scientist for the first subjects. What he found was touch-sense is twice as good and our civilisation will increase The probability is that time time since his marriage three this.
her muscle-sense-sense of post- months before. Frank I When men talk among them- tion and movement-slightly in- and emphasise both the sense of always am, I asked him how selves, the commonest topic is ferior,
equality and the differences be- things were.
money and business, 48 per Her memory is better. She's tween the sexes. They will be- "Oh, everything's all right. cent.; second topic, amusement, moro aye-minded, i.e., remem- come more different, less un- I'm in heaven and I'm staying 14 per cent.
bors best what she seas: man is equal. there. There's nothing wrong.
When women talk the first more car-minded and muscle superiority and inferiority is a The need to think in terms of But as a scientist I'm inquisi- topic is men, 44 per cent.; second minded, ie, remembers best morbid one, and will disappear. tive. I like to formulate laws topic, home and clothes, 23 per what he hears, what he feels The man who leans on his sex and principles about things and cent.
with his muscles. people, as you know. But I Sixty-two per cent, of man's
for a sense of superiority pro- Man has a bigger brain: also claims his inferiority. can't do that about, Mabel."
conversation is taken up with bigger feet. But in proportion "Perhaps it's better you don't money, business and amusement, to body-weight woman's brain is try," said I. "Anyway, you're and only 7 per cent, of woman's; bigger.
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The
young yet."
But seriously, how different are women?
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Hongkong Telegraph. NOT long ago in psychologist
MONDAY, FEB. 3, 1930,
AN EXPLODED
MYTH.
frankly inquisitive-walked slowly up a crowded city street every evening at 7.30 for several
OTES OF THE DA
67 per cent. of woman's thoughts
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In the realms of thought, it is probable that men and women of
is taken up with the opposite telligence, she takes better to
With the same degree of in- great superiority will develop
newer points of affinity. sex, home and clothes, and only languages and literature, while
Like the genius; the superior 10 per cent, of man's.
man takes better to mechanics Person of to-morrow-man or As they talk, presumably so and mathematics. Training and that are both masculine and woman-will develop qualities they think. Why and what the tradition play at least some part femining. The superman will difference?
in this.
have a feminine intuition vastly - different from the effeminacy of THERE are many theories. MOST important and least the sub-man; the superwoman, a John Stuart Mill argued that understood are the tempera- sweet reasonableness and stabili- man's battling and woman's mental differences: depending ty resembling not at all the home- keeping, after so miny on glandular differences, especi whining jerky querulousness of By reason of the prominent | ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE thousands of years, have mould. ally on the gonads or sex-glands. the mannish sub-woman. part which Britain has played
ed them differently. Give them Man's gonad tension has a So far as, intelligence la con- Nearly 200 air pilots are to be the same education, the same different rhythm; higher peaks, cerned physique counting less in its efforts to get solid backing trained to command the fleet of jobs, the same conditions, and lower depths; more sensitive to and less-the really practical for the League of Nations in flying boats which are being pre- the differences will disuppenr. frustration, proner to outbursts issue so far as the community is the Italo-Ethiopian dispute, the [pared for the Atlantic service.
Professors Geddes and Thom- of aggression, to sudden energy. concerned is that differences be- theory dear to Continental Theso men, nearly four times the son-at the other extreme-gay Woman's glandular rhythm is tween Individuals of the same hearts that the British, especial-number of captains and first officers that every cell in a woman's body evener: never the same heights sex are far greater than any dif ly in their foreign policy, are a air routes, will be trained at. the try.
at present employed on the Empire because it has a different chemis- always as determined.
is different from the very start or depths: never as aggressive, ference between the sexes. nation of hypocrites, has once Air Univeralty at Hamble, South-
Other glands play a part. more gained considerable cred-ampton, during the next four years. (energy-spending), woman's is below the Adam's apple is more
Man's chemistry is katabolic The thyroid gland-situato just THE differences in tempera- enec. Ever since the taunt of It will be almost two years before anabolic (energy-storing). Dif- active in woman: makes her ploited. It is precisely those-
ment will be creatively ex- "La perfide Albion!" was hurled regular passenger services will be- ferent chemistry-different tem- more exoltable, proner to fear. at us by the French jacobins gin over the Atlantic, and not until perament. That is why man is carly in the war of 1793, the 1988 can we look forward to regular active, inventive, rational: why WHAT has the past made of legend, for such it is, has been dally "sailings on a large scale. woman is passive, receptive, sedulously propagated. A writer By 1940 all these 200 pilots will be
emotional.
falled to
N
of
man and woman?
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Between man and woman too
differences that produce a crea- tive tension upon which much of the fabric of civilisation rests. "Only on tight-tensioned strings can a fine harmony be The world is still largely man- achieved." Genius is often the & Co., Ltd. has lately been doing some ser-in command of Empire flying boats
made: bridges and books, result of clashing temperaments vice to his country by looking on the India, Australia, Cape and WHAT are the facts?
machines and scientific theories. In the individual; due to con- into the historical evidence for New Zealand routes as well as over The greatest differences aro Man's physical strength gave trasting race or character in the or against the theory, but he has the Atlantic Ocean. The leading physical. Next are differences him the start. Contacts out- parents.
senior master pilots, with over in temperament. In actual inside the home broadened his find any proof that Britain has been more marked years war and peace-time lying Up to thirteen, girls rate slightly pecialise. Every boy must now produce not antagonisms but 10,000 hours, representing some 20 telligence little or no difference. mind. Civilisation made him there will be a clash; but it will. than any other nation by perfidy experience, will be among the first better than boys in intelligence be specially educated for his new values. in dealings with its friends or to take the new. training in air woman allows temperament to educated, therefore considered now values, new outlooks, new tests. But to a greater extent
Men and women together pro- rivals. The conclusion was only seamanship. Captain Wilcockson,sway her intelligence.
Not so the girl. She is less duce not only new babies but also to be expected. There is as who has piloted four-engined 42- suredly no reason whatever why seaters on the Continental routes ter,
Man is bigger, stronger, fas- does not yet demand a technical ing.
less educatable. Home-keeping hopes, new justifications for liv- the British should have been for thousands of hours, will be the legged, more muscular, slightly
shorter-tranked, longer- training. selected by Nature as the bearers first of Imperial Airways veteran superior in muscular skill, has have compelled her to adopt a
But a difference there will of an intensive dose of a vice pilota to go to "school" at Hamble. better endurance for prolonged technique of cunning, of person-
Woman's limited activities always be. that may be found in every na- For purposes of training, flying muscular effort, is better adapt- ality. Where man found a cool
Long live the little difference! tion. By all reasonable testa of bonts have been withdrawn from ed for movement. faithfulness, whether to written
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to all the world by now, With-ITALY'S ANGER out going farther back into history, there was the grent
Diplomatic recriminations haye
example given in 1914. And to- been going, on between' Italy and day it is Britain who has been other nations for some time. In offering leadership to the mem-particular, the Italians are angry bers of the League of Nations in with the Belgians. Before the implementing their obligations Ethiopian war the Abyssinian army under the Covenant. Italy may i was more or less controlled by an choose to call this "perfidy," but omela! Belgian military mission. if the word has any moaning the On the outbreak of hostilities the British record in International mission was at once recalled by, the per yard dealings is and has been the very Belgian Government. The Negus opposite. Doubtless, however, was disappointed at the loss of his the cry of "perfidious Albion" will be heard for many a year were replaced by another Belgian Belgians. Soon afterwards they to come, as and when we `dis- please this or that Continental mission of eleven officers. Privato nation which happens to fall remonstrances were made by Italy foul of us for the time being. In Brussels. The Belgian Govern- It is a convenient weapon for ment at once disclaimed responsi-; use in propaganda, but, like all billty for the new mission, and such stories propagated for such pointed out that its members were a purpose, it is found on close no longer active officers of the Bel- analysis to be without founda-glan Army. The offloors were, in tion.. Britain has no reason toate, the Ethiopian Minister in fnet, engaged by M. Tokio Hawari- be ashamed of her record in Paris. They are now carrying on foreign affairs; quite the reverse, the work of the former official Bel- And in the present instance she glan mission. Their chief, Colonel has shown that she is prepared Ruchi, has taken the place of to stand firm on principles that General Virgin, the Swedish Gen- never needed defending more cral, whose health compelled him to then to-day. If the League has leave Abyssinin, as military advisor so for not been effective in put to the Emperor. The Italians have ting a stop to the Italo-Ethiopian no redress. The Belgians are help- war, the fault must be sought risk in much the same
ing the Abysstalans at their own for among other nations than French and German officers helped. the British.
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"Are we going to act now, or wait till she has made herself absolute dictator of our club?”
American As She Is Spoke
The following extracts from "Key to the English and American Lan- guages" are being so enthusiastically welcomed among such people as-
Stock Exchange sharks desirous of reading American financial cablos.
Guides of American tourists who are expected to ask queer questiona Intelligently. And even- American salesmen, from time to time And a smattering who might of English veaful,
Extracts From "Koy" DELIVER English: to hand over, to free. American: portion of a mammal's body, cf. "Do livor" Bausage aure is good to-day, momma."
STOIC. English: one who accepts pain or pleasure without betraying omotion Amarican: de bold thet brings de babies
HARSH English
atern, govore. American: to still or quieton, as in the
Bong
the trest Harsh-a-bye, baby, In''
DEVOID. English: empty, Iscking, American: a vocal sound expressing something, as in "Ah had devoid on de tip of ma tongue jest now." PART. English: a portion, Ameri- can: a wine, cf. "Have a drop more part, pard."
DISGUISE. English: a changed 'ap
pearance. American: a particular, person of the male sex, cf, Dat guy's dumb, but disguise slick.””.... HARM. English: injury or damage. American: ef. "What with the old cheese, the larder kinda farma": thus the word would mean to buzz or murmur.
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