Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-17

fact that he is, If still far off, in
sight.
And, however charmingly poetical he
may appear to Sweet fourteen and-a-
half who writes melancholy verses
about, Il wish l were again a child
or merry three-and- twenty" who
preserves in silver paper my first
gray hair" Old Age viewed as a near
approaching reality, he is quite an
other thing.
Slower or faster you are going down
hill. To those who go hand in hand
it may be a safer and sweeter des-
cent, but / am writing for those who
have to make the descent alone.
II is not a pleasant descent at the
beginning. When you find at parties
that you are not asked 10 dance as
much PC formerly, and your partners
are chiefly stout, middle-aged gentle
men, and slim lads. who blush terribly
and require a great deal Of drawing
out: when you are dear ed and pa
tronized by stylish young chits who
were in their cradles when you were
grown woman or when some hoy
has the impertinence TO look over
your head. bearded and grand. or even
To consult YOU on his love affair. then
we have lived Just long euought to
catch faint tone or two of the large
harmonies of nature and fate. As 1
once heard said. I'VE feel we should
Ike to go on living were II only out
of curiosity"
II is said that we suffer less ms we
grow older: that pain. like JOY. be-
comes duh by repetition. or by the
callousness that comes in years. If
there is no Nv like the joy of youth.
the raptures OF u first love Gods great
mercy has also granted that there is
no anguish like youths pain; so total
so hopeless, plotting out earth and
heaven, falling down upon the whole
being like stone. Many Young
race do | see wearing the indescribable
Martha look. troubled about many
things whom 7 would fam remind
OF the anecdote of the Ambassador of
Russia. TO him tossing sleepless on
his bed, his old BODY servant said.
Sir, may put TO vou, and will you
answer three questions? First. Did
not the almighty govern this world
very well before you came into ~"
'Of course And will He not also
do the same when you are gone out of
IT." II know that" Then. do YOU
not think, sir that He is able To gov
ern 1t while Won are In ITO The AM
bassador smiled assent, turned round
and slept calmly.
Why sneak Of ago In mournfn
'f'"'ll ~ - iva uNll ~, loilOfiDle. rlD-
dient should we sigh at the prox-
unity OF Genth, when life and the
world are full of emptipcss? Let the
old eNult. because they are old If
any must weep. let IL he the young
at the long succession OF cares that
are before them.
There Ia a deadly warfare OF social
ethics being fought ont IN the world
OF the up-to-date. a warfare with
the chaperone and Mrs, Grundv and
the social conventions on one side ana
the poor little maid on the other
fighting the battle Of self preservation
and for the rights of the American
debutante.
or late years the chnperone has "ev-
Diluted into a wonderfully fascinating
creature, Generally she Is "A young ma
iron who still bankers after good
time and who Is not nverse to a wee
bit of a Irritation and PHllantry herself.
She is bright sho is Jolly, she is mar
ried, ana what unsophisticated maid
may hope 10 win against such a COM
bination OF charms? She cannot. ana
must take a back sent until by some
kind trick OF fate she, too, is a ma
iron ana ready TO haze" poor debu-
tantes.
The chaperone has made stubborn
fight for existence; she has called upon
all the conventions; she has shrleked
openly for Mrs Grun1y to come 10 her
aid. In her side talks" her answers
and inquiries and her lengthy coll
umns on social etiquette, she has
dinned II constantly, shamelessly. that
she IN a necessity no well-bred girl
could be without, and shall sho now be
torn from the proud enlnence OF her
positlon2
The BUSINESS girl set hor aside long