The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-20
ANDREW AND IM0GENE
By ROE FULKERsoN

At Haskell's dance last night said Imogene. "her daughter and her mother were dancing on the floor at the same time she was"
 And I suppose between the dances tho daughter, grandmother and mother all went out to the dining room sideboard and had a highball and a cigarette with each other" 1" said Andrew.
 When was a boy growing up 1t used to be quite an event, like a we'd lMing or a funeral, that made mother kput on her black silk and paisley shawl and go out the front gate, even, and grandmother! Why, grand mother never thought of going out again after she became a grand mother! The rest of her life was de- voted to putting up jelly, teaching her grandchildren nursery rhymes and knitting wool socks, pulse warm CTS and comforters to tie around your neck.
 The greatest change of modern times h the change which has taken place in mothers and grandmothers.
 You can walk along the street behind three short-skirted females with high heels and nippy walk, and you begin to wonder which is the best looking chicken of the lot, and try to decide from the back view without avail. You may conclude IL A L. l. ( l. 1. carriage, and then as you pass them and glance back you find that the end one is grandma, the middle one mother and the awkward one on the other end is daughter.
 This is certainly grandmother's day. She is no longer showed back 1in the corner like what-not or an antique highboy. She goes to the cafes and dances with her sons and grandsons, her sons-in-law and her grandsons-in-law, and they all pay her court. 4
 There is never a man who does not rejoice in the fact that these times have brought about change in the attitude toward grandmother, and shown that 1t is not right to put her on the shelf when she has raised her family and got them all nicely settled down.
 Grandpa and grandma used to feel that they should scrimp and slave and hoard every dollar. and then give it to the children when they died. but they have at last awakened up to the fact that after the children have been educated. married and started in life. there is no reason why they should not get some fun out of what is left, and they are do- ing 1t with . will.
 "There is little doubt that not only men but women are as old as they feel and not as old as they look The surest way to the cemetery is to get out of the worlds activities and settle down in some little eddy in the chim- ney corner and watch the world go by.
 "The man or woman who lasts the longest is the man or woman who keeps the busiest, and believe me. with the modern dance. the modern bridge, with golf and automobile, grandma and grandpa can keep right in the middle of the stream of life, take all the rapids, and they are do- ing 1t. world for an absence of children It is to be found in the fact that child less people do not grow old. but can atick around and make up with their pocketbooks what they lack in youth and so keep stirring.
 My hat Is off to grandma ana grandpa, and I am the last person in the world to smile in dersion if l hear some rheumatic bones creak be- side me as I make the turn at the end of the ballroom and see some c1uple beside me
 ssvYve Ia Grandmere! Hurrah for