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The Happy Days Of Age

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Youth takes itself with the same seI riousness which belongs to age in a time of less knowledge; and one of lha greatest proofs of a more complete mas tery by the world of the art of living is the wish and ability to be careless, says Scribner's. The one who Is learning to dance counts the step, and that j Is what age has ceased to do; white youth is still whispering "one, two, three," most sedulously to itself. It j is not that things do not ! seem so important, nor is it, as it is sometimes claimed, that age or the age is more skeptical; but, generally, age nowadays has mastered lts elementary knowledge earlier until it has It as an actor an often played role, and necd not be conning the part all the time. It does not lose its dignity because, sometimes, like royalty, it travels incognito; and if it chooses under other titles to seek a freer life it knows how to do it and dares do it and is welcome to, thougL it creates sl very different state of things from any that ever existed beforc. Seeing the bent browa of sophomores and the solemn eyes of "buds," no one dares to talk longer of the happy, careless days of youth. There is a change. Age "s'amuser;" and really, in view of the present conditions, there is nothing to be done except to advise youth to hurry up aa ast as it can and grow old.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register