Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-07-12

merely as object lessons OF what to
avoid. What mannerisms we have ac-
quired that excite their derision, how
Anticipated our most cherished ideas APP
pear to them, and as for dress, they are
| inwardly convinced that although they
should live to be a million, they would
never give way to the weakness OF
wearing turnover collar and a string
tie and broad soled shoes or leave off
their stays, just because 1t was comfor-
table. If their conversation appears
to US insane don'tfor moment suppose
that they regard us as anything but
bores. The silliest chit OF young
girl thinks that she is bestowing an es-
Unable compliment on the wisest man
by giving him hal an hour of her val
liable and enhancing giggles, while
the youth of 20 who deyotes ten min
utes TO conversation with an elderl y
woman, no matter how distinguished
and brilliant she may be, does 1T with
the conscious air of comforting favor
on her that she really didn't have any
right to look for at her time OF life.
There is in reality no criticism so
merciless and unsparing, no judgment
so hard as that of youth. 1t makes no
excuses. Failure is failure to it, with
no extenuating circumstances. Every
young person is so cock sure that his
own life is going to be triumphal
march, unmarried by mistakes, that he
has little pity for those who have fall
len by the wayside. Every boy can
tell you to a dot where his father erred
in his business calculations. He re-
CARDS the old gentleman's caution as
cowardce-his sticking to the methods
that have been tried and successful as
old fogyism. He intends. when the
business gets in his possession, to make
clean sweep of the old employees and
start radical changes that he is con-
vinced will make him a millionaire in
next to no time but that to his surprise
generally land him in the hands of a
receiver before he knows what has
happened to him. Then, by the time
he has found out that he wasn't really
so much smarter than his father, after
all, he has grown middle aged himself
and shifted about to the other point o.
view.
Every girl is equally sure she know:
so much better than her mother how
to keep house and manage household
and raise family. If the older woman
thinks the young girl, chattering non
sense and giggling over nothing, Ii
silly, the girl returns the compliment
with interest by regarding the womer
who are wrestling with the complex
question of how to pacify a cook wht
wants to go, and keep a husband IL
perpetual good humor, as nothing bu
rank failures. She is dead sure thai
1 the only reason that the great domes
tic problem hasn't been settled Ions
, ago is because she has never brough
her gigantic intellect to bear on 1T
"Just watt" she says, confidently, un
3 til get to it, and I'll show you how
that matter ought to be settled" Blu
she doesn't do it, and her daughter in
; herits the same old question and thu
? same opinion that she is smarter thar
her mother.
There are few things more to be de
: plored than this lack of sympathy be
tween youth and age. In families, il
{ particular, it works grievous wrong
Il and raises a barrier between parent
. and children that nothing can Drea
i down, and causes untold suffering an
y sorrow. Because older people have n
T patience with it, youth believes tina
Ii it's own life is different from ever
u other one the world has ever known
l. and so it does not heed the warning
70 that age is shouting back to it acros
a the chasm, but goes its own way, an
II learns by mistakes and tears and fai
u ures, and by and by it, too, grows oil
@ and forgets that it was ever young
&c and so the endless chain goes on.
u Sometimes, though, love can build
. bridge across the chasm that divide
u youth and age, and sympathy buttrei
II ses it with understanding, and the
~ life is at its best for both, for yout
y keeps the heart of age warm with il
y enthusiasm, and age teaches youth
walk without stumbling in the tangle
i that are hidden among the roses {
70 springtme. DOROTHY DIX in Mich
% gan Tradesmen.
Is CIimpses of Life in a Shoe Store.