The Washington herald., 1915-10-16
ARE YOUNG PEOPLE AS
NICE TO LIVE WITH AS
THEY USED TO BE !?

standard of duty when l was girl,
Margaret Deland is quoted as saying
in the November Woman's Home
Companion, "One was industrious
and respectful because one was told
to be. *-* l must confess that !
think our elders found our generation
pleasanter to live with, then we
painting and breathless with an ef-
fort to keep up with the procession
find the young people of today"
Do you agree with Mrs. Deland,
that the young people used to be
nicer to live with than they are to-
day ?
For our own part we would en-
phatically answer the question in the
negative.
In the first place older people don't
live with the younger generation on
such intimate terms as they used to.
Older people, like the younger ones,
have more freedom, more opportuni-
ty to live their own lives, and, ap-
parently. they treasure this freedom
as highly as do the younger people.
1t is not the women under 80 who
are making the youthful, independent
spirit of the women of the day any
more than it is the women over so
who. freed for the first time in many
cases from the duties of the house
hold. possessing in many cases for
the first time sufficient income to
carry out long-treasured plans, seek
independence just as much as their
children do.
Isn't it just as often a fact that the
young people are painting and
breathless in an effort to keep up
with their elders as are the elders in
an effort to keep up with their chill
dren? We could mention a dozen or
moro delightful women in Washing
ton who so far from being left be-
hind by their daughters, set a pace
in social and intellectual achievement
that it is hard for their own daugh-
tiers to follow.
So people don't live together on
such close terms of intimacy now
as they did a generation or so ago.
Mothers and grown daughters do not
have so great a chance to tax each
Others NERVES: they don't face the
problem OF getting along with each
other at all. II they live in the same
house they live more as chums than
as parent and child. there is delight
full cameraderie, where there used to
be spirit of submission and author
itv. Zach has her own interests and
each respects the others rights to
these interests. Really the present
way seems the better.
Dean Magie-William Francis Ma
gle. classmatc OF President Wilson
and now head OF the department OF
physics at Princcton-Says that there
is mo moro reason for giving women
the vote than there would be for
making special arrangements to bring
cripplcs and bcdridden persons to the I
polling places on election day
Isn't this just one of those anti
suffrage statements that does the
cause Of suffrage more good than the
most logical bricf ior the cause that
a John Stuart Mill, Susan B. An
thony. Belva Lockwood or an Anna
Dickinson could ever have written.
Purely from an impartial point of
view we think that the suffragists
arc much to be congratulated that
in the division OF sentiment of the
men who swear allegiance to the
Princeton tiger they drew the Presi-
lent, and the antis surely should be
condoled with in having won the
support OF the learned Princeton
lean who likcnS the mother half of
humanity to "cripples and bedridden
PERSONS
ANY way persists our suffrage
riend, when elections are close they
10 take cripplcs and bedridden per-
sons to the polls and their vote is
IS good as any ones. Blu: who ever ;
heard of such comparison::"