The herald., 1893-08-19
OUR JRUNESSE DoRBE.

The golden youth Of Los Angeles-the
children OF rich parents-are perhaps
envied by their less fortunate compeers,
who have no rich fathers and mothers
to look to for fortunes already made.
But ii there is anything consoling in the
fact, we can say to the young folks who
have to carve ont their way themselves
to wealth and distinction, that our gilded
youth are not altogether happy-that
their paths are bestrewn with thorns as
well as roses, and that many of them
pass sleepless nights and anxious days
in the fear that the inheritance they
have been brought up to look upon as
theirs may at any moment slip from
their grasp. This lie, indeed, the sad
and unenviable condition OF a large pro-
portion of our young people of great ex-
pectations. especially OF those who have
lost one Of their parents.
"Our annals as they are writ" are re.
plete with examples OF rich widows and
widowers, with grown up children, who
at time of life when "the heyday in
the blood is tame" and passion is tenn
pered with the cool and calculating
judgment that usually waits upon the
frosty pow" yielding unaccountably to
the ardors that elsewhere belong only to
the halcyon days of man or womanhood,
and astonish the community by forming
new alliances. and stepping jauntily out
upon the arena OF life as brides and
bridegrooms. When such things occur
and the frequency OF their occurrence
here has been subject OF general remark
we can we'll imagine that there is
weeping and waiiing and gnashing OF
teeth among the heirs apparent. whose
fortunes in expectancy are thus placed
in dire jeopardy. OF course
the elimination OF the sue
cessful courtship of the gay old couple
ia not the beginning of their troubles.
They have not, perhaps. for q long peri.
cd been insensible to what was brewing.
They have doubtless played the "espi-
als," and seen that the amorous author
Of their being has been coquetting in a
significant manner with somebody. It
may have been with handsome but
needy woman. or with dashing but
mercenary man. Perhaps they have in
some instances succeeded in defeating
the designs of the adventurer, and
brought the fond parient'' to Temporal !
ry reason. But the peace Of mind which
was once theirs ia departed forever;
and when at length what they all
along feared bursts upon them as
4 sad reality. who can measure
the poignancy of their feelings or sound
The depths of their disappointment? |
Blasted hopes are before them, beneath
hem and all around them. 1t is at
uch time that they bewail their fate
md wish they had BEEN born poor as
,ther peoples children. Then comes
he hour of triumph to those youths
hey have before looked down upon as
he mere boys and girls of the common
nerd, whose lot is to .wrestle with the
world with nothing but their own brave
lrms to help them on in the struggle of
ffe.
The fact that the divine passion at
acks people here who in other lands
would have reached the age OF seniity,
nay be another marvellous development
If the virtues OF our magnificent climate
The age of puberty is reached much ear
ier here than elsewhere. We may,
therefore. infer from the fact that go
many of our old people remarry at a
ime when life is supposed to have fallen
nto the ''sear and yellow leaf" that the
ge OF poetry and passion lasts here until
hey have entered into the lean and
psntaloon, and until the va
ant eye only distils it's d lily river of
Vatery rheum. Whilst it is to the credit
+ our climate that people here are never
90 old to get married, yet to the heir
r heiress in expectancy that fact is
ource OF constant anxiety and unspeak
BILE fears. To those OF our jeunesse
oree who ere thus h4rassed, we would
commend lagos advice to the Moor
Poor and content, is rich and rich enough;
Iut riches fneless is as poor as winter
o him that ever thinks he will be poor"
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