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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1936.

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The

Jout in real life."

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 pene. trated her personality,

She takes naturally to parasi- tic occupations: prefera to be. judged by what she seems rather than by what she is; by her per- sonality rather than by her nchievement; by barbaric rather than by civillaed standards.

She is far behind the moral standards of a.man of her own class; is tolerated as a "gold- digger" when he would nover be.

man and woman?

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Woman has better endurance

·for lack of sleep and food; ·ia The other day I met one of He jolted down their con- fatter and a better floater, botter. WHAT will the future make of my best friends brilliant vereations and classified their adapted for child-bearing, Her 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.

hor muscle-sense-sense of posi months before. Frank as 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.

maney and business, 48 per Her memory is better. She is tween the sexes. They will be- "Oh, everything's all right. cent.; second topic, amusement, more eye-minded, l.e., remem- come more different, less un-

equal, I'm in heaven and I'm staying 14 per cent.

-bers beat what she aeos: man is

The need to think in terms of there. There's nothing wrong.

When women talk the first mord car-minded and muscle- But as a scientist I'm inquisi- topic is men, 44 per cent.; second minded, ic., remembers best superiority and inferiority is a morbid one, and will disappear.. tive. I like to formulate laws tople, home and clothes, 23 per what he hears, what he feels The man who leans on his sex and principles about things and cent. people, ns you know. But I Sixty-two per cent. of man's Man has a bigger brain: also for a sense of superiority pro- can't do that about Mabel." conversation is taken up with bigger feet. But in proportion claims his inferiority.

In the realms of thought, it is "Perhaps it's better you don't money, business and amusement, to body-weight woman's brain is probable that men and women of try," said I. "Anyway, you're and only 7 per cent. of woman's; bigger.

young yet."

But seriously, how different

are women?

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Hongkong Telegraph. NOT long ago a psychologist

MONDAY, FEB. 3, 1930.

AN EXPLODED MYTH

frankly inquisitive-walked slowly up a crowded city street every evening at 7.30 for several

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with his muscles.

in this.

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67 per cent. of woman's thoughts With the same degree of in- great superiority will develop is taken up with the opposite telligence, she takes better to nower points of allinity.

Like the genius, the superior sex, home and clothes, and only languages and literature, while 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 feminine. The superman will difference?

have a feminina intuition vastly different from the effeminacy of THERE are

muny theories. MOST important and least the sub-man; the superwoman, a John Stuart MII argued that understood are the tempera. sweet reasonableness and stabili- NOTES OF THE DAY man's battling and woman's mental differences; depending ty resembling not at all the home- keeping, after so many on glandular differences, espect whining jerky querulousness of thousands of years, have mould ally on the gonads or sex-glands. the mannish sub-woman. By reason of the prominent

ed them differently. Give them Man's gonad tension has a So far as intelligence is con- part which Britain has played

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 soild backing trained to commund 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 disappear. 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

Woman's glandular rhythm is tween individuals of the same dear Continental These men, nearly four times the Son-at the other extreme-say

to 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 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. air routes, will be trained at the try: nation of hypocrites, has once Air University at Hamble, South-

Other glands play a part. more gained considerable cred-ampton, during the next four years, (energy-spending), wornan's is below the Adam's apple-is more

Man's chemistry is katabolic The thyroid gland-situate just THE differences in tempera- ment will be creatively, exs ence. 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 "La perfide Albion!" was hurled regular passenger services will be ferent chemistry-different tom. more excitable, proner to fear, at us by the French 'jacobins | glu over the Atlantic, and not until perament, That is why man is early in the war of 1793, the 1938 can we look forward to regular active, inventive, rational: why legend, for such it is, has been daily "sailings" on a large scale woman is passive, receptive, WHAT has the past made of

emotional. sedulously propagated. A writerBy 1940 all these 200 pilots will be has lately been doing some ser- in command of Empire flying boats vice to his country by looking on the India, Australia, Cape and New Zealand routes as well as over into the historical evidence for the Atlantic, Ocean. The leading physical. Next are differences him the start. Contacts out parents, or against the theory, but he has senior master pilots, with ever in temperament. In actual in aide the home broadened his failed to find any proof that 10,000 hours, representing some 20 telligence little or no difference. mind. Civilisation made him there will be a elash; but it will Britain has been more marked years war and peace-time flying Up to thirteen, girls rate slightly specialise. Every boy must now-produce not antagonisms but than any other nation by perfidy experience, will be among the first

better than boys in intelligence be specially educated for his new values.

Men and women together pro- in dealings with its friends or to take the new training in air tests. But to a greater extent Not so the girl. She is less duce not only now babies but also

woman allows temperament to rivals. The conclusion was only seamship. Captain Wilcockson,sway her intelligence.

educated, therefore considered now values, new outlooks, now to be expected. There is as-who as piloted four-ongined 42- suredly no reason whatever why scaters 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 Hv- the British should have been for thousands of hours, will be the legged, more muscular, slightly

shorter-trunked, longer training.

But a difference there will selected by Nature as the bearers first of Imperial Airways veteran superior in muscular skill,. has have compelled her to adopt a

Woman's limited activities always be. of an intensive dose of a vice pilots to go to "school" at Hamble. botter endurance for prolonged technique of cunning, of person-

Long live the little difference! that may be found in every na For purposes of training, flying muscular effort, is better adapt ality, Where man found a cool tion. By all reasonable tests of boats have been withdrawn from ed for movement. faithfulness, whether to written

or to spoken pledge, the record the Mediterranean services, and the

of our

country compares very well with that of any other.

first of these has now been recondi-

tioned at Rochester and is stationed Britain's adherence to treaty at Hample. obligations should be well known

to all the world by now, With ITALY'S ANGER

out going farther back into Diplomatic recriminations have history, there was the great 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 was more or less controlled by an choose to call this "perfidy," but official Belgian military mission, if the word has any morning 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 lils the cry of perfidious Albion" Belgians. Soon afterwards they will be heard for many a year were replaced by another Belgian to come, as and when we dis- please this or that Continental mission of eleven officers. Private: 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 discialmed responsi- use in propaganda, but, like all blilty for the now mfaalon, and such stories propagated for such pointed out that its members were Ja purpose, it is found on close no longer active officers of the Bel- analysis to be without founda fact, engaged by M. Tekis Hawark gian Army. The officers were, in tion. Britain has no reason toate, the Ethiopian Minister In be ashamed of her record in Paris. They are now carrying on foreign affairs; quite the reverse. the work of the former official Bol- And in the present instance she glan mission. Their chief, Colonel has shown that she is prepared Rushi, has taken the pince of to stand firm on principles that General Virgin, the Swedish Gen- never needed defending more erat, whose health compelled him to than to-day. If the League has leave Abyssinia, no military adviser so far not been effective in put to the Emperor. The Italians have ting a stop to the Italo-Ethiopian ing the Abyssinians at their own

no redress. The Belgians are help war, the fault must be sought risk in much the same way as for among other nations than French and German offlcars helped the British.

the Boers in South Africa,

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WHAT are the facts?

The greatest differences are

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differences that produce a crea- tive tension upon which much of the fabric of civilisation rests. "Only 011 tight tensioned man and woman?

strings can a fine harmony be The world is still largely man- achieved." Genius is often the made: bridges and books, result of clashing temperaments machines and scientific theories in the individual; due to con- Man's physical strength gave trasting race or character in the

Between man and woman too

jab.

head and a steady hand most American

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

“Are we going to act now, or wait till she has made herself absoluto dictator of our club?".

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 cables,

Guides of American tourists who are expected to ask queer questions Intelligently. And even

American malesmen, who might

from time to time find a smattering of English useful.

Extracts From "Key" DELIVER English: to hand over,

free, American:

portion of

mammal's body, ef "Da Iver sausage sure is good, to-day, momma," STOIC. English:

Cone who accepts pain or pleasure without betraying emotion. American! de bold that brings de babies, p

HARSH, English stern, severe, American: to still or quieten, as in: the song "Harah-a-bye, baby, in the treo tarps".

DEVOID. English; empty, lacking. American: a vocal sound expressing something, as in "Ah had devold on do tipo ma tongue Jest now." PART. English a portion. Ameri: con: a wine, ef. "'Have a drop mo

mora part, pard." DISGUISE. English; a changed ap

pearance, American: a particular person of the male sax, of "Dat guy's dumb, but disguise slick.”- HARM. English injury or damage. American; cf. "What with the old cheese, the lardor: kinda horms": thus the word would appear to mean to burs or murmur.

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