The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-12-28

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activities observed and fmrecorded during the dozen years o
lowing the first The pleasing voice OF Fred Allen may
men as we breezed along through Jazz overall
recalled at this moment spoke with
those ancient days twenty-five thirty years and
evy that far time wh the sober maturity of
our own days Maturity was the actual word used
It is striking and curious fact that we Americans find
ing anything everything that be called old fashioned
The tricks and of the past hlarousy comic
sumaby for other reason than that they belong to the past
healthy thing be able to laugh oneself; but it is
necessarily healthy thing laugh at what was
at hat Certainly not given to genera
laughter But find instantly amusing
picture of what we were few years ago
"That film must be twenty years old" will say
the Tv puts what lightly refers to "a first pic
those short skirts o? What do you that poicemans
uniform? those military with their stiff backs and
high choker collars Goly, aren't they all funny'
the crazy Charleston Big Apple Black Bottom.
Turkey Trot Bunny Hug Tro One Step! What taught
But there is laugh apparently in the Rumba, the Samba the
1--WE the Jtterbug There nothing to laugh at or even to smile
our juvenile days But now we are mature!
The old with their hoods vastly amusing
Not the monsters with their horrible grls fantastic
horsepower and fins that make them look like old time delivery
trucks Nothing funny there of This the cloud
land of auodynamcs This the day that wishes to-
This the of the 1860 look wrought by inspired
and prophetic designers three ahead of schedule The past
vey amusing the future sobey Important Are not
mature?
Truly The Jazz Age" presented pageant feveSh and
silly activities But in scarcely particular is the
THE Mature Age-a iot less everish silly Nor is there
chance that this of maturity will be found anything
but very amusing when viewed in retrospect five
We shall be laughing 1856 before the
prophecy of the nny cadesgners true does
true
We of the mature listen sobery the endless talk
VI eroonn on ns W sr p a OF a o
story the shaver that beard yet ungrown
seriously attend the dimped sawar who explains his
of cigarettes travels the smos farther
mild" We follow unsmilng the subtle for pill
several mysterious ingredients like doctors prescription
We meet the window test without laughter derson
Nothing silly about We have ougrown the pueres the
Jazz Age We are mature
1t is satisfaction indeed to realize that come Of
age our mental processes and in social behavior We live
modern even the fact ungrammaca land Giving
the perfect cigarette All Oe you see therefore best
therefore actually miraculous the tp) We can con-
ourselves troubled world with the keen delight
pggyback writing instrument We have defniy
frivoity and TO grips with the questions of
blood and gray Sickness arthriclke pains And be
beers is hearening to live adult atmosphere
realize that at long last we have of mature
This age beguied meaningless claims and
counerclaims is scientific time Unlike creduous grand
parents people who must be on talks largely
to us about twenty thousand filters in each tip do take his
unsupported word? No sir; count them. sadfaced
who to be in constant pain tells about the merits of the
multngredent pill do childishly the Not
your hfe we buy the things and try them }
use trying to bamboozle mature people We know that
when thing registered it's advertiser
got to right out and show the registry number being
affixed to the label We not the ghy things
IN the dark We mature to take pill within
pill want the article plainly shown magnfied
ner to and understand with pill the
football won't do to tell the modern that his razorbade
travels hills and Valleys the thing demonstrated
again and again with pictures large and convincing
Maybe the birdbrans of the Jazz Age convinced
of thing with telling Not with minded mod
ern The balyhoo boys who about special
brand less than twenyone times the sxysecond period
between rounds That shows that make headlong udg
mens we ponder; the again again
We
man, but that which O. Are Jennfer and joyce