San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23

The Young smart alec who drove
through Main street with one foot
hanging outside the buggy has his
running mate who now drives the road
ster bare-headed.
Lot OF Disgruntled MOssbacks.
|, Yet we are making more of hula
!. baloo today than we did when the
world TO us was young. We are be-
coming a nation of disgruntled moss
backs. And what is the big idea:
I, 1t is quite true our youths are hang
! ing about stage doors to see stars de-
! part and are placing photographs of
! movie stars in silver frames on their
{ dressing tables.
4 But it will not tax our memory to
I remember the days when we feverishly
sought photographs from cigarette
boxes of beautiful Lillian Russell in
picture hat and frankie Bailey in
! tights. We are quite forgetting that
adolescence in the loom of time
!. progresses and improves.
1 venture that the boy Of today
would smile at our puppy-lOve silli-
ness. He comes nearer 10 having the
4 real thing than we ever had. He seeks
4 10 see his idols in the flesh or in the
l gorgeous sepia prints instead of tie
tswdry makeshifts we employed.
1t strikes me. too, that our after
[ noon cake eating and tea drinking pc
!; riod in which the young indulge has
1 the old fashioned ice cream and straw
I berry festival beaten to whisper. In
Y the old days we came from these en-
, teftainments alive with chiggers or ID
q red rash from poison ivy.
y So far as ] can see the youngsters
J today come from afternoon teas will
i no noticeable change save perhaps al
III III lilation to spout some new flap
Il parcse phrase such as Amt YOU sil?'
" There is a growing conviction that
!! There is pretty soJd stuff in You'll
4 os today. i can almost believe You'll
has improved with age.
= Ihoir self-reliancc may annoy Il:
but that is only a SPECIES OF jealousy
4 Perhaps il We tried for little more
self reliance ourselves We wouldn
= have time to worry about thCm.
Better i'm the Pinch.
Grnybeards mourn that the ceiling
ing vine- gil is W moro. In he
! stead has come the girl who drive
her own car. vamps the burglar. ant
perhaps carries her own matches an
flask. Still it is noticeable tina
when she marrics and hubby get
caught in the market she doesn't cal
for smelling yslts. She flips iwav he
cigarette. rolls up her slecv2--aI,
i onens up BiIc Plate Tea Room q
Bon Ton Gown Shop and thF3 keep
the wolf frOIn taJing his fanss at III
door
Self-reliance rays DIVIDENDS I,
} Youth just the same as it does (
middle or old age and We should n
begrudge the youngsters.
I have noticed too that with Yout
today there are no "Wall flowers
when the young chase the CLOWN
hours with flying feet. If they are NJ
invited to dance. they put on tlei
wraps and go home-or to anothc
dance. There are no shrinking violet
eating their hearts out in darkene
: corners. Youth refuses 10 be slightc'
For some years / worried about III
, son Of a friend of mine. He kne'
: all the movie stars histOries--a bate
: Of information that somehow SCENE
|. 10 me a personal affront. When !
: truth IL was nope of my business. II
had the annoying habit Of tapping HI
cigarette end on meticulously po
ished nail. He used pomade-and i
called his Dad Governor.
I wondered how he was going
make his way in the world. He wa
entirely too much the dandy. He can
: ont Of college playing the ukulele. II