Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-05-11

"fhen, consider family traditions.
| Even now they are tenacious. One may |
| hardly escape from the weeks trodden |
circle; corned beef hash for Wednesdays |
| breakfast; fish for Fridays dinner, and |
| cold supper on a Sunday. After 500 |
years they would be adamant, and the |
arrival of country cousins on a visit |
might craze an entire household by up
setting its rules. Think, too, Of the
number Of servant girls necessarily dis |
charged during such a period, OF the
strides Of gas meter, of the progression
of grocery bill. Contemplate the fire.
quency Of refurnishing, aye, Of rebuild
ing ores house lest it should become
the prey Of some antiquarian society
"Suppose that every circumstance was
similarly extended. Then Caudle lee
ture might last for an era, and tooth
ache through 10 generations, But what's
the use OF questioning? The fact re-
mains that the patriarchs lived to ripe
old age, hence they must have been
healthy. wealthy and wise; while as for
us, if one succeeds in passing the grand
climacteric, It's but a seven years step
thence to the measure OF ones days,
and Nos habebit humus.
There is ground for what you say,
therefore rejoice oh youth"
But am young, and if 50, how long
shall | continue to be young? AT our
class reunion last year there was little
Jenkins with curly mustacEios, red
checks, and laughing eyes, slapping
every ono on the back, on the high hat,
and out-colting any two-year-old
Why, it made me feel like taking a
grilled sardine, golden buck, and
. quart Of stout Just to watch him. And
yet there was Barton, who used 10 be
his junior, with bald pate, dropping
whisker, and stitf-knee gait, and he
made me feel as if | should quaver at
once for panada. Everywhere go, it's
tha same thing.
"Hherc is sprig of minister at our
church, certainly not over 20, who dis
courses on the mistakes Of his early
.. manhood with the serenity Of scientist
! dilating on the paleo1oic froltcs Of
) fossil, yet the president of the Young
Mems Company Club last fall was q.
/ man of CO. The newspapers refer TO q
I criminal Of the maturage age Of 30; yet,
!, on the same page describe politician
J Of As as one of our leading young men,
! Is it any wonder, then, that | don't
J know where am at?"
v II suppose it all depends on ones
> habits and environments"
4 "Isn'titrather the converse that is true,
Il and aren't our habits and environments,
c dependent on our capacity for youth or
V old age? Don't we choose the glasses
e best adapted for our point of view?
+? cannot tell, | know if | stay home
1t nights, the boys say its pity a young
q fellow should be so set in his ways; and
q if 60 ont, my wife says a man Of my
j. years ought to be ashamed. There is a
confusion which modern inquiry should
+, straighten, u mystery which modern
thought should make manifest"
A. "Aud what would you suggest"
4. "Why should | suggest? lis but a
ii moment since | referred to men, some
At Of whom are grandfathers, as the boys
Il. And yet Luther was n monk and Pau
g: had sacrificed unto Jupiter. The present
ID distinctions, derived from years alone
n are false and should be abolished. There
TX should be toga virilis, but it should
Us only be worn by those who have evinceC
90 steadiness of purpose and sobriety 0
IL living"
n "How we'll you would look in bib
n old fellow"
le 81 would establish grades leadn!
ir from levity to gravity, 50 one would
lie have reward before one First, it nigh
VIC d 'll1NS Gbllali AlpeiN Ibtttt tllI
Id u high hat and finally flowing beard
OF When all Of those were gained and as
1" sumed, q man would be man, moi TO
a. that, but on account OF them"
IN But there are some men who, afte
liz being models for years, in middle if
in become gay. There's that old reprobat
Dobbins, for instance. | have heard
en- said that 20 years ago, if ever there wa
ld a sduare-tocd automaton of duty, it wa
he and yet, one day, he broke out with
NJ hurrah, and he has been hurrahing eve
ok since. What would you do with such
hcs
IS "Pajaluras and cigarettes should b
their mark and portion"
in You would have to pass Sumptuar
re- laws aud enforce them
Oh "Gcrtainly, but once let the earnes
We and the resolute get control and Their
vs. would be no trouble. The friVolou
ed would be too absorbed with the
Of frivolity to interfere, Yet | cannot BIT
1re believe that such outward and visibI
an signs of inward and spiritual maturit
we would prove Informative. How humil
to ating it would be for man Of 80 on al
i'll proaching group Of youngsters to pei
in. ceiyc that their conversation Wa
, a changed on his account, and to hear on
in quote warningly 'Maxima Gebetr
int pueris, low inspiring to an lngeniol
,ns lad 70 feel that his father, uncle and bi
10 brother We're in subsection to him, an
l il that every one knew it, think man