The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-23
BY JANE DIXON.
HERE Is this about It: we are
certainly giving old Pa Time
a swell run for his money.

a swell run for his money.
Now and then he does man
age to overtake one Of us and deliver
the wallop that puts lis down for the
count, but the percentage of catches
gets lower every day. Folks no longer
grow old. The period seems rapidly
approaching when an elderly person
will be as rare as an old fashioned
hustle. Ten years from now you may
be able to find a genuine grandfather's
clock. but it is doubtful If you will
md q genuine grandfather.
II is a happy idea. this %perpetua-
ton Of the spring and summer Of life,
with maybe just Il wee tinge of au-
Winter is cold and bleak and dreary
unless We shut it out. turn on the
heat and the gay lights and laugh at
its attempts to freeze the blood m Ii
veins. And lifc's winte:. is Just like
that-unless the fires of youth are
kept kindied and the lights Of joy
switched one wc are due tor a cold,
gray stretch at the finish. No wonder
We have acquired the habit OF happi-
ness and a daily plunge in the foun-
tain Of youth.
IL can walk along the streets in New
AE~~l, c-, kI.Als- .,l ,.a ~. N
single grandmother" declared a vis-
itor from the cornfed belt. where
they think no breakfast il complete
unless there are mlnce pic and cook
les to round off the criddlo cakes and
sausage. Don't the grandmothcrs in
this town ever come out of their shells,
or do you practise h osler theory
on them
My dear, ruilcless sir. YOU probably
met dozens of %crandmothers during
your strolls in our city, but they were
not Dragging about it.. Some of them
were tripping along with their grand
daughters. likely enough. and you
could not tell n from t'other.
Two generations back. when Miss
Seventeen mentioned the fact that
there was going to be a dance over
to- the Hi Perkinses' home next sat
urday night and that she was going
to put some new tatting on the collar
of her best red cashmere for the oC-
Casion grandma held up both hands
put on her black bonnet and went t.
the meetin' house to offer Wednesda,
prayers for the wdywardness of tn,
young folks.
To-day, when Miss Seventeen men,
tiOns the fact that she is about to GU
4 swath at the the dansant at Z
fashionable afternoon rendezvous
grandma chirps:
wait a minute. dear, and I'll III
with you. ! am just wild to learn rha
cute twist in the fox trot ! saw then
doing at the Plaza yesterday. | simpl.
can't exist another day unless ! learl
IT,"
Whereupon grandma. smooties tn
marcel wave in her hdir-Vcry nue.
"touched"--pins on her sailor hat 4
slant Coyly over one eye, and pattcr
along with Miss Seventeen. Is she
ball and chain around the ankle a
the party? Nothing like il. The me
split the dances with grandma an
Miss Seventeen fifty-tifty, unlcs
mother happens in and they have t
divide thirty-three and a third.
Grandpa carries on in the sam
scandalous fashion. What he does no
know about the surciire shows of tn
season. the newest and nattiest thing
in neckties, could be pushed into
pinhole. He no longer allows hi
spectacles to ride on the end Of hi
nose While he pores over the Former
Gazette. but he can tell you to a ma
who IL who on the sporting page an
the batting average OF Hans Wayne
season bef ore last.
At a certain Broadway pleasure ba
zaar. where you can grab a bite {
food between dances il you are a fas
worker. I watched the antics of a Ca
young dog Of sixty-odd. The longer
watched the better I realized this
g~randfathers were doomed TO becom
extinct, II indeed they are not so a
ready.
This particular exponent Of the ne
order was grizzied as to hair, but /
had done his best to correct any fals
impression this trifing mark of tin
might create The correction ~consisto
of q startling red necktic topping
set of scenery which would have dor
credit to his grandson. a fly yOun
Princeton sophomore.
II would have done your heart GOO
10 see grandpa dance, lie knew mo-
about openwork steps than VernC
Castle ever dreamed. He chose you'
for his partner, and when he put {
the reverse in turns he whirled II
blond bud right off her high hccl'
boots. Every little while he won
hesitate, bounce the blonde up in Il
s,r aid let he, h,,h irI i',-uui, ne,
backward as If she was about to flo
In space.
The girl who sells five cent arm
- tons Tor a quarter and h pinn'
the red one grandpa wore on his lap
cOnhded TO me that he hadn't missed
dance once In six months except Su
days. The most vital question OF |
day was whether the carnation shor
be red. pink. white or notified. r
only time he made a quick dccisi
was on 81. ratrirk's day. If v
want u got the boys who are rea
whoopinc II up, being gay and cid,
Keeping the calciums trimmed a