Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-09-28

boots and tribulstions; all the toothachess
and he attaches of your youth; do, be and
suffer it all again be, in short, once more,
Just the soft young Noodle you. were
twenty years ago"-ten of manhood's
hearty hopes to one dolorous wall ior our
lost youth, that you answer, "Pass on,
Father Timel And you may as well tip
tt ose twenty golden ssndgrains back into
the lower half of your hour-glass. l do
not want them"
1t gives an odd feeling, especially If you
are woman, to fiod yourself getting to
be a little bit middle aged. First, you will
notice that you begin to be left out of very
young folks picnics, and to get fewer
notes in pink envelopes than you used.
Then you begin to be fatally haunted by
vague, sneakipg doubts as to whether
white muslin and blue ribbons are becom-
ing to you. Finally, and worst Of all,
once in while you will see an infant of
the male sex, whom you remember as a
rosy little fellew ia checked aprons when
you were twelve years old, suddenly lif ed
over your beai in the shape of long,
gawky tiped, with the tender down Of a
first moustacbe sprouting from his upper
lip That gives you an intensely exaspe-
rating sensation. Nor is it pleasant 10
have saucy young slips of girls talking of
you, behind your back, as old Sarah
Thompson.
Then, too, you may as well make up
your mind to the hard fact of middle age
when you chance to open some giltedged
book of poetry, and discover, carefully
pressed away between the leaves, little
lock of faded hair, and you can't remem-
Der, in your life, whose it is. l have had
half a dozen such myself. They were
precious as gold once, no doubt, but 1
make confidential confession to you that
if were questioned on the rack, l couldn't
now tell whose heads they came from.
What makes me know that they were pre-
cious as gold in their time is the fact (you
will observe this is another confidential
confes stony that they are nearly al locl G
of longish-short hair, before college stud
ents began to affect the present prize,
fighting style of shaving their pates. q
poor little rings of faded hair-I grieve to
say it, but have forgotten you ALL
again, when you go to party and
dance more than half the night, far into
the small hours, and then partake of that
grinds;one mess called a party supper,
maybe you notice you feel grumpy and
OUT of sorts next day. Well, that's sign,
too. Especially, if you have found your
self pausing to listen now and then to the
cha tsring talk of persons younger than
yourself, and sarcastically wondering
whether you ever made such wholesale
idiot of yourself, or whether very young
misses always deluge society with such
quantities Of simpering nonsense and affec-
tation. Q believe they do.) 1t is a sure
sign if you find yourself constantly feeling
c4ll to give your younger sisters advice
which they don't want, and to treat them
now and then to bit of preachment, fol-
which you get no reward except thankless
insinuations about saving ones breath to
cool ones broth. Or may be you say
occasionally to your sister Ella, who is
sixteen and pretty. "When you have
lived as lopg as have, you will find that
the majority of very young people have
precious little common sense. ."-Lippi7l
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