Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1869-08-04
RANl0AJ S90IS.
NUMBER VIII.
BY LADY GAY.

1 will be glad for the world when all
the old fOgies are out of it.
It is simply prepOsterous for people,
who fifty years ago emigrated to the
West, and were compelled by the ne
cessity of surrounding circumstances to
economic in every possible way, to ex-
pect the rising and coming generation
to adopt the course they, then pursued.
I can remember, (even in my time)
when a lady bought a Leghorn bon
net, for which she paid as high as from
twenty-five to thirty or forty dollars;
and as the fashions varied, would have
that same bonnet bieached and altered,
making it last from year to year; and
the same with dresses of costly fabric,
cleansing and turning from season to
season. Then commerce was i'll its in
fancy. The present facilities for inter-
change of products were totally un-
known. Now! when the "irOn horse, !"
with '1ightning speed" flies snGrting
and belching from ocean to ocean, and
everything is progressing and advance
ing in the same ratio, for men and wO-
nen to preach the doctrine Of old fOgy-
ism, insisting upon their children doing
exactly as Grandpas and Grandmas
used to do tits absurd. I often hear one
of these contracted spirits say to his
children "What another pair of boots
why when I was a chap like you, if I
had a pair of boots in five years I
thought it was kingdom come No! I
shall not indulge you in any such ex-
travagance." How Ipitied the creature)
He forgot that when he twas a chap a
pair of boots were boots, made to wear,
and made to last; they differed widely
from the boots of the 18th century that
are all made to sell! I have however
one thing to console me for the limited
influence Of such old rips" A million
of these narrow-minded, never-tO-be-
expanded monuments of by gone days,
can not, mo matter how earnestly they
preach) stem the tide of progress that is
sweeping the world before it; as well
might a country dog with his hollow old
fashioned Boo WOO! WOO! "Bdy at the
moon" for progress has the upper hand
and will keep it, and these old land
marks of antiquity villa last, crumble,
tOtteT, and fall to rise no more forever;
happy thOught.) It is useless for pa
rents to say to son or daughter "you
must begin and climb as we did gradu-
ally. The children of this age are bent
upon beginning life precisely upon the
plane their fathers and mothers occupy
NOR.
heard an old, old lady say to her son
who was just married, the first meal
she partook of in his house. "RObert
Robert! you have commenced wrOngW
"How' was the rejoinder, "How, moth
er?n 81 see" she returned ''yOu have
a silver plated castor on your table; your
Pap and I had been married 20 years
before we felt able to have a silver
plated castor; you'll never become rich if
you begin in this extravagant way"
Robert felt the rebuke, for he cOIOred,
and like many other moral towards, laid
the blame on his wife,by saying: 'I left
the selection of the table ware to Mary,
she bought the castor" 1t was Mary's
time to color now as she answered spir-
itedly, dyes, bought it, have always
been accustomed to a silver castor OH
my fathers table" say, Hurrah for
Mary! Young mothers are not going
to rock their babies in a trough of a su-
gar tree followed out for the purpose,
when patent cribs can be had that are
self rocking. And I don't blame them.