The Archive · 1926

The Eternal Masculine

One Earmark of the Stronger Sex have scaled their lighted Without disturbing much or long The surface of Our mental fairway: Whilst Several sinners, doomed to walk The pitfall paths of purgatory, Are those of whom we Tave to" talk:

'And vend about in' song and story.

By -Euizanerm, Pervs.—

Peaute, of course; are people, every Tittle gi takes apter Wer" fla 1 Tetmost "every boy rex bles his mother. anithetending "there That teen' Solon fo owe nex rather, the rds, the other. In other. the observer, albert nota naturalists ta generally able to distinguish the Clinging' Vine from the Sturdy Aal Externals don't, make so. much difference after all, in these days of Loyish bobs and skirted trousers. Votes are even, there are no posi tions safe from the encroachment \-worker and men are istes and milliners. No, the intrinsic differences lie beneath all these conventionalities. One of the most outstanding variations, we maintain, is the invincible aversion of the masculine to asking questions.

By this we do not mean to imply that the' male of the species is not! experience we do not understand. We only know that he would rather dic than. ask a constable his way about. If the situa-jon becomes one in which iriformaex or implicitly acquiesce fe's approach to such wellheads of information, but in such case the head of the family declines to be an accomplice in the loathly crime of question-asking and pretends not to Know the woman who is committi such a aux pas.

Just why men so dislike to ask' curious. Not a bit of it. He is more avid of than any chatty questions is unknown to us. It can-Housewite, but, he doesn't want to|nat be a criminal or, civil offence, admit his inferiority by acknowledg Were boys more snubbed in the Sng that another human being may youth for "satiable curiosity? Know something which he doesn't. Was the inquiring mind so sternly All men may not consciously believe frowned upon in the nursery? we do Juche thoocy of the transmigration 9t remember such to have been souls but every man Jack of them the case.

Of course our older would like to make the world believe brothers, even our junior male rela-that in some way, through memory' were accustomed to telling the of previous existences or not, that nursery things with an air of great he knows how to act in any possible finality and tactful playmates did emergency und-has a familiarity not argue unless in 2 mood for real with avery contingency and-has a familiarity which could riggs not fail with the passage} But tu school, if our Designed ind drawn for the North-China Dally News"

PICTURE GOWY IN BLACK AND POWDER BLUE TAFFETA AXD FLESIC-COLORRED

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