Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-09-19
OLD JESTER TIME DELIGHTS IN
PLAYING STRANGE TRICKS.
Aging Folk Seem to Be the Only Sen.
timentalists Left-Present Gener-
alton Seeks Money and Ma
terial Comforts.
by MARGARET e. sANGsTER.

BY MARGARET Il. SANGSTER.
Notwithstanding the general skepti-
cism of young people on the subject.
the fact is that almost the only senti-
mentalists we have left are the old.
Time is jester and he likes 10 play
strange tricks by sleight of hand. He
has stolen the slender grace Of yonder
substantial matron and given her
goodly store of avoirdupois lie has
robbed her OF the roundness and
smoothness of girlhood and left
creases and crows feet to mark the
years, but of one thing he has not
been able to defraud her. Deep in
her heart there is a spring OF ro-
nance that bubbles up with the same
silver sound and sweet freshness that
1t did when she was a bride, and al
though she may be a grandmother, she
is more sentimental now than the
pretty bride of the second generation.
Many an old fellow whose name is
known in the stock market and at
whose beck the world of finance
changes place as children do in the
game of stage coach, has an unsus-
pected fountain of sentiment hidden
in his soul He is shrewd, hard head
ed and sagacious, but the soft bit OF
sentiment is in him still. and it re-
spends to the touch Of music and
poetry. to the watt of a perfume. or
the sight of daisies in June Such
man will carry folded away in his
vest pocket Il bit of fugitive verse or
faded photograph the kind that was
formerly called carte de visite The
picture is oldfashioned, but it brings
back TO him the memory of girl who
died long ago, in the peace summer
that followed our civil war.
The old people watch with a certain
sympathetic interest the love affairs
of their juniors. and often resent and
regret the obvious lack of sentiment
shown by these A young woman mar
ries a man who can give her a COM
Portable home and relieves her from
the drudgery of teaching or sewing
or the inconvenience of dependence
IN parents who have younger children
to provide for. To the sensible per
son who takes a discreet. common
place view of life, ii seems a justi-
fable proceeding, eminently wise on
the part Of the young woman. Why
should she ask for anything more than
solid foundation Of respect and
esteem on which to begin her mar
ried life. The people of her own
period are very apt to take this mat
ter Of fact view. Not so the elderly
ladies' who were wOoed and won with
chivalrous ardor in the long ago. WHO
know what real cOurtShiD means who
regard love as hdllowed and marriage
as sanctuary, and who shudder at
the thought of a profane foo. cross
Ing that sacred Threshold. They have
bad to part with many illusions on the
road. but the one illusion that has
remained to them a pure reality is
Loves young dream.
Watch people as they read the lat
est passionate novel and listen to their
criticisms and discussions. The
younger portion OF the community
wait with resignation, not TO say in
difference. for the next number Of the
Magazine in which the current serial
Fhall begin. and resume its exciting
episodes. IL broke off at psychic
logical moment To the white-haired
woman who read it, seated in her
rasy-chair beside the window. the
story vas Of breathless interest The
people were not mere puppets. but liv-
inc heiugs who had reached a climax
Of Good or ill fortune. and she prob
ablJ met them in her dreams for a
d.y or two. She 70 is who loves