Evening star., 1924-11-30
Mother and Father as Examples
For the Youth Of the Present Ace
Nina Wilcox Putnam Recalls Original

r rs a great life IL you don't week
end. as Shakespeare or some body
so truly says. And amt 1t re-
L markable how up-to-date some
of them old sayings seem. es-
pecially when you pull them your
self?
Shakes poetic words to the above
effect flashed across what I like to
think of as my brain the other day
when George, that's my husband.
started off for the Goth time exercis-
ing his powers of speech about the
kind of thing our Junior had been
doing.
To hear George talk. person
would suppose the only thing his own
mother ever had to pick up after
him was his halo. he being too mod
est to wear 1t of his own accord.
This time George says here is your
son yelling for bicycle that costs
20 porous green ones, and mad at
for him. Great Jumpin' Catfish, he
says, or words to a different effect.
but I am too much Of a lady to put
the actual ones down.
Well anyways, what is the young
ones coming to nowadays? George
rambled on. Why, when I was a
kid one sled at Christmas was big
time stuff with mel First thing you
know. that son of yours will grow
up into one of these he-fappers, ask
Ing for a high powered highway
horse Of his own, and dashing oft
to these week end petting parties.
In any but the good old-fashioned d
way. that might as well be under
stood, clear. right now.
Well, our Junior being merely
seven and one-half yrs. to date, and
his dissipations having run principal
ly to hot-dogs and soda pop, I was
able to keep my head under this
crisis pretty near az easy as can
Keep same under the permanent
waver when necessary.
But Georges remarks got me sit
ting and dreaming about my awful
past, and I come to find out that It
was q great life back In the naughty
ninetfes. in spite OF the fact It was
at that time the original censor was
born.
This bird Anthony Comstock evi-
IDENTIFY considered he was descended
from the well known Mark, the boy
who ofi1ciated at J. Caesars funeral.
And in my day Comstock was busy
all the time officiating at the funeral
OF any amusement he could manage
" Nil ou- a0 was always pulling
his great-great- Grandpa's stun, only.
Ike most quotations. he twisted il
to mean what he preferred. The line
he became best known for was 7
come to bury Pleasure. not to save it.
And believe you me, he sure started
epidemic in this country which only
our healthy natl. sense of humor is
Keeping from spreading beyond re.
pair. = =.
4 4 * "
WELL anyways, back in Comstock's g
" Hey! day, when I and Geo. and
the Joe Bushes was wild young
things. dashing around the park,
nights, in alleged handsome cabs,
sneaking out to matinees without a
chaperone. learning to cake walk, to
wink, and other such vile and degrad-
ing forms of younger degeneration
things sure looked black for the
moral future Of the. country. What
the young people was coming to was
q question. No wonder Ma and Pa was
In continuous royal At. when you
come to consider the kind of dogs ]
and Geo. and our crowd was obvious
ly headed for.
I don't mean pug dogs. although
admit that on or around that date
these animals was as hourishing a
was at any time possible to theiI
species. What mean is, ] and Geo