who have good memories can remember when grand-fof us even possessed them of our own. They swore delightful rel to have, too, " tribe who were seldom too busy to an importunate child or to listen with fact of remote and rapped them round; they id to be securely anchored in @ pleasant backwater.
True, grandfathers did sometimes to use some of your old lace that Move offices downtown and more often a study where they could re-part for weighty correspondence, eongultation with friends and meditation upon the latest number Punch, (We early learned where to go to find the funny pictures!) Grandmother, too, had important rities, confabs with the cooks, over-Seeing of house cleaning, " special disness which no one else was allow fet to concoct, even meetings of the Ladies' Auxiliary, the original germ of Glubphobia. Of course a number of almoners had to be visited and advised us well. Still, there were always peppermints in the upper 'Fight hand drawer of Grandmother' black walnut bureau and a welcome "To which Grandmother re.
rided briskly: "I hope, my dear Elizabeth, you are not relegating generation!" From infer that were Gran mother living to-day she would have the latest shingle or necessary ar, Antoine transformation.
The Passing of he Parent The old-fashioned Grandparents vanished about the same time as the traditional Parents of Authority. Authority itself only exists to-day jin the shape of the Law, and that little more than a game for clever people to play and sometimics little more than a popular joke. Father one of the boys and Mother would Jand so the daughter to create any sensation whatever has to exceed the speed limit. The boy, who sees that Father is a regular fellow ix going to make hin open his eyes if possible.
'All this is very chummy and'companionable and in the long run we dere say.derirable. Certainly it has swept away tremendous amount Jof hypocrisy. There is no longer' any doubt that parents are human beings. The youngsters may be a b'e high hat at present and parents Jo. shode too subservient, but these things will adjust themselves. La Jour nursery days the struggle was to appear a little bit better than we really were. Now the frantic effort is to assume s wickedness though we have it not. And when we parade our dashing escapades in the full' sunlight of notoriety there is no-{thing so very sinister in them after all. Foolishnesses, yes.. Every age has its own silly, sometimes vicious weaknesses. But there are no conlcsalments nowadays and while life fs less delicate on that account it is really less dangerous.
The most regrettable thing about expressive, selfish generation needs to We petted? It needs to be spanked. It's spotled already." True, true. Rut think of the Labour involved in its super-sophistication. Many a rette-smoking,—_ flask-carrying.
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