Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10
THE GOWNSMAN
"rhos. wI,d Youno People"

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L Monthly there is clever article on
Those Wild Young People by One of
| Them" II Is In nature a reply to several
indignant treatises' "depicting our ex :
| travagsnce., the corruption OF our manners,
the futility Of our existence, pointed out In
stiff, scared, shocked sentences before a
sympathetic and Mortified audience Of
fathers, mothers and maiden aunts-but
particularly maiden aunts" thus writes
''one Of them" Evidently he is feeling his
speak with that fine air of proprietcrship Of
my generation as does this alert, open
eyed and sopbisticated Young man, the
Gownsman's sympathies 20 out to him and
to his generation In their frankness, In their
folly In their Philistinism even. From the
beginning there has been friction between
the old birds and the nedylings after. their
first flight We who are OF middle life hug
ourselves In our wisdom and think that all
things come by experience The young. with
impulse and instinct strong within them,
see by sort Of intuition how little we have
really learned; and Il irks them Sto be lec-
and live In the pride OF Efforts long past.
D.. ..... e., .. =
OUR young friend, zone Of them Is
" hishiy indignant. as well he may be, at
the mess which we have made of things in
the broken. mutii,teJ world which we are
handing down IN him and bis generation.
an,Is Sp,ooa'es ,p,, hIlkc 'ae AZ ,',a,,,ii,',.
doo 'in' ~ a. u,e. a; ,Is soouIS S;,h a' nrefers na
tional obloouv 70 not be;ng able to do the
tb;na ;tsa,s 10 hot otmS ,h "ye hes '" soon ths
n.tednsss ~ % t VI h I'LL .. hr;n.. off
thn Mast a, VI n,apk.hu "hen ;sis,,,.iamnS ~
t;mo In ia. .,,h. , "nu @ "e ,J ,,,a.o Jresm;na
aItruistic dreams He at least is not TO be
fooled but pronoses N take the material
ioys tbot ro. pVpoSSs;s y, RI; W ,aA y, - no ant aftsr
iSemSand I;ns ~ IT., hius' iso "gL Mo onts ths reei
thin. n;.;,,.,.,n nis nv - nia..nSs a. Ia ..
~ ths,o ,v.na nu @ pssGp,u p,sp ni bo u,.n,s
II nav The d,s;,i,,sioa lieu, untsS s. nin.ns ;r,n"
tient and thev "I''nr sa;, ner;,an,,u nn rmepsn
keel He ress,ts orr toretbouybt in ar.
rany;,, 70 ,,,ard s,. ou, ,.aIs hr ,sau af mo.
bih;t;nSS ~ S'atu hls nota's w why y, pr
remind. ns tbet ~ .., ~ o,ou naS hnan oan ano
tradicted" tboP o,a nf In pogre eon CON
fcrenccs brsore liz Vne y,ar u .mae;cs Stood ont
fars Connot 80 use y. pntSt;, poson gus an wa "a
traa;ct thi.p n. - ~. pa,. n,, "a.
toric I;so,.ce5 en'usn' u 'ii' iur'ner' MS
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TT. Is- . had .,,,,h ,.s. chat .o,.. -
l them" make, out against @ u. and W. sav. w
no. oe,'ered since the war. bot are We
,nAt ~ We OF the Older generation--wholiy
70 plane! Did we not have In our turn
r%pn n;,inn oid . parents who s insisted on admo.
understanding Sf'e OF our Tt yeatsfor "S ~e . toe
were sometime young! Did we not inherit
early .ictorianism, which, the Gownsman
taxes II, means something very prim and
snug ana hwfui! Were not we. too,
Gi,iana biearne' nnn 10 and sS9ded fof % our uRtra
.S oitiGnai manners! For the licenses OF the
.o'iIlon e. ana the german; for our addiction
TO cards and tobacco. for potations when
potauons were not legally crime, and for
ou. dreaoIul slang wnich, resuscitated now,
sounds much more antiQuated than Chaucer?
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