The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-08
"SPURNED BY THE YOUNG .o

"SPURNED BY THE YOUNG.o
 Our old friend, the Journal and Cour- fer, is so delighted with the new clock on the corner of Chapel and State streets that it celebrates it's advent in poetry. This is almost as shocking as the clock tower itself, which as matter of fact is ugly in proportion, hideously painted, and entirely out of place. It is better to be beautiful than to know the time of day from such. tickling tattle.-New Haven Evening Register
 Our dear young friend the Register is just as young as ever and just as ready to turn up the nose of youthful impertinence at it's old friend and men, tor. If it will depress that nose and pause in its giddy and tricksy sport for minute or two we will once more try to irradiate it with the light of truth and impress it with the spirit and the words of soberness. Our dear young friend is so gay that we find it little hard to tell whether it means that the fact that we celebrated the advent of the new clock in poetry is shocking, or that the poetry In which we celebrated said advent is shocking. If our dear young friend feels shocked because it's old friend can still appre- ciate beauty and fitness in poetical ut terances we must say that youth is ,,,oI Instead of being shocked our dear young friend should rejoice that age and wisdom do not slay in it's old friend all that lends a glow to life More over, our dear young friend should not be shocked because it's old friend is always able to recognize and appre- ciate the poetry that warns and gilds, and often exceeds. the truth which our dear young friend weaves into it's ut terances But, if we are on the wrong tack, and if our dear young friend is only shocked by the quality of the poetry quoted by it's old friend we shall simply say that it is good poetry, and that if our dear young friend does not know it is we do not believe that we can help it. There are things that don't grow much after a dear young friend has been educated and one of them is the faculty of discerning what is poetry and what isn't. So if our young friend is shocked by the poetry we shall have to leave it shocked and pityi1gly endure that which cannot be cured.
 "Spurned by the young was a phrase of the poetry quoted. How true. Time is spurned by the young, and it Is natural for our dear young friend to spurn the fine new clock that solemnly marks the flight of time on the corner of State and Chapel streets. We sup pose that in the exuberance of youth our dear young friend spurns the age and experience of it's old friend just as it does time and the new clock. Alas, what mixture of glory and folly youth is. Our hope is that our dear young friend may not carry it's spurning so far that it will be cut off in it's folly and sins, without remedy
 Our dear young friend says that 'it is better to be beautiful than it is to know the time of day from such tickling tattle" Here again speaks the voice of gay inexperience. Beauty has been called a fatal gift. It is cer- tainly dangerous one, and though we do not begrudge our dear young friend it's possession we shudder at what it may do to our dear young friend May Heaven grant that if our dear young friend ever comes to it's senses, turns the corner, and wants to know the time of day some friendly and kindly solemn clock may not be wanting. When that day comes our dear young friend will repent of tickling tattle.'