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LEAVE THE GIRLS ALONE-
A LECTURE FOR THE OLD FOGIES WHO FORGET THEY ONCE WERE- YOUNG THEMSELVES.
[BY ROBERT BLATONFORD,]
Our benevolent mandarins know theso things, but they forget and they write pompous silly Looks against love and go- mance and courage and adventure. Love, my
dear old lathes and
aughs not only at locksmiths but at Love has faith and coarage, love is not afraid."Don't fall in lovu until it is con- venient Marry come up, by the time it is convenient you may be lit and dull and I should like this week to do a little in
selfish; you may be incapable of, falling in the advice gratis line. Having discovered love at all. And what will you have missed! long-felt want I
to fill it. am aching
I had been reading Mrs. Ward's criticism of our modern girls when the revelation came to 10. "Gracious heavens !" exclaimed, how crueily we old people are neglected. In what an ungrateful world do we so amiably consent to go on living."
any
THE COMMON SENSE 'WAY.
If I prosuund to offer advice to a boy or girl I should way. Do not try too soon to be aid, yun dan never again be young. And to the old I would say: "My dear sisters and. brothers of the pen, in the name of dignity Thus! For thousands of years bonovolent and common sense give up playing Provi- persons of middle age have been writing dence and let the young people live their books and essays and preaching sermons or own lives and learn their own lessons."
Il ve
think advice to the young, But when did
Cour times were better umes volume of advice to the old then these, or that young men and womwn mentor write Yet many
elderly women and men, despite then were nicer or better than they are now, their cultivated virtue and ripened experi let us try to remember that we were young little lower than the angels, then and that we are not young now. There ence, are stilla The very circumstance of their readiness to are no girls like the girls we used to dance criticise and advise the young proves their with, there are no waltzes like the old own need of counsel. I shall endeavour to waltzes. Perhaps. But we see now with supply the need. We have all road Cobold eyes and dance with old feet.
Mrs
Ward, for instance, does not approve bett's Advice to Young Men," but who over asks for Blatchford's Advice to Old Fogieat of modern girls or modern fashions, Sof That book has yet to be written And the But the good lady is in her 2nd year,"
Lf need for it is Nore.
like a crab, she could walk backward and be again a girl of twenty, she would revel in short skirts and simple frock and liberty. jazz and slang as she formerly took to She would take to powder and cigarettes and tattling and Mrs. Iemans and the musical glasses Being a Roman she would do as women in Rowe.
WHAT THE OLD FOGIES FORGET.
Young people, being, as they are, perhaps fall of reverence for their seniors, inagínú that the elderly lies and gentlenen who deal in counsels of perfection are encycle pelias of knowledge and wisdom, that, in the pert argot of Georgian youth, "they know it all." But that is a mistake..
MENTALITY OF YOUTH.
do
I remember the Victorian period Mrs. Those learned pundits do not know it all. Ward extols and the fashions of that periori Manifestly they do not know how to mind the admires fand I am unable to share frer their own business. Much as life has taught That is well enough, but it is a mistake to enthusiasm. Old people love to look back. them they have not learned to consume their own smoke. They excite themselves over go back. I feel convinced that if Mex Ward could go back to 1860, without going their ke
granddaughter's stockings, they lose their dear old heads over the ound back to youth, she would meet the shock of
gicidy round of fashion's wheel, they
For my part I do not want to live my with the mazes of moderigue theruselves her life.
lang, they growlife over again, and I do not want any tearful for the lost deportment of tho Turvey-drops, and they write laborious and young man to live my life. It is better he solemn treatises to teach our boys to button should live his own. Let us wish him good their gaiters and our girls to put up their luck and hopes he will be happy. But why hair
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No. 39, PEKING Road, Sharonai. hood of fogies, I propose to render my fellow. be bored to des How, then, should I instruct my sinnets how to make
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A FREAK OF 'ANNO DOMINI.
sentimentality
Yes the great philosopher was really proud of the ghastly and fameutable exhibition. Such a humiliating spectacle ought to cure the most unctagus proser of the passion. For advising posterity. Ah, brother fogies, let us take Hamlet's hint and play the fool in our own houses only.
Yes. But these confessions are confined to the family circle
I do not write pon derous platitudinous tomes warning our youth against the dangers and uglinesses of London. I do not publish acidulous pages of censure of the rager, pleasure-seekingern crowds of London boys and girls. Why Because I remember that I used to be a myself and that I am now an old man. As I fulminate against the great the haven of my hearth: I catch a glimpse in the mirror of my grey, wrinklel, ugly old
and f
from
BURY THE PAST. }}
and brothers would they like to see their I would respectfully ask my elderly sisters art young grandson, array himself in a pair of peg-top trousers of a large check nat- tern, i mir of cloth-top Louts with peark buttons,
Canary coloured waistcoat, a high toda
blue coat with puter tails -and-a
hat with a Bat brim, and walk down Piccadilly or through the City Of course they would not. a business That fashion and that age are deal. This fashions rest in peace
top
I smile. There is nothing wrongs 1923 Let the dead years and the dead London, nor with the young Londoners
Anatole France, in an
article on
It is a freak of Anno Domini.disliked Loudol," remarks that the modern French don now because it is crowded and vast busy hurried.
is badly brought up. Bat does not fall
girl is
"and" But forty years ago I loved London-be-into the mistake of decrying the present and
extolling the past. He says:
it was vast and crowded and busy and exciter Shall I warn Londoners against London } live there. They do not
They want to live anywhere else. They know how to live there. It is I who have forgot- how to live there. Does not my parable explain my paradox 1. Life changes for us as London changes for The fact is we bave
ten
118.
ones.
changed to both, we ser o reul Cobbett's
it is many years since
It
Advice to Young Men. I found it a spark- ing magazine of unconscious humour. It impressed me as a solemn wurning against the impertinent folly of teaching my grand- chitdren not to suck egge.
Cobbett's direction for finding a wife are simply priceless. He seems to have sup posed that a man goes out to seek a wife us he goes out to buy a horse or an umbrella. There's no more conceit in him than in a He tells us that she should eat for quick at meals is quick at "he says that if she walks fast with
Is this tantamount to saying that we should regret the old disciplines and the uld houses, the St. Cyr establishment for young ladies, the conveats in which Loucul would have learnt the polite- ness and respect of which she will always bo ignorant Certainly not. The strong and narrow education of the old régime would be of no value to molem, society. Our aspirations have widened with our horizons. Democracy and science draw us towards new 'destinies which we vague- ly foresco.
body leaning forward it implies diligence I shall book of advice to young men.“
atid energy, and he advises the young lover to watch the damsel cicely and make sure she has no grime in her ears Thas the great William Cobbett,
LOVE'S LAUGHTER.
Then there is Mr Arnold Bennett, who writes a book with the modest title: How to Make the Best of Life and tells the boys they are not to fall in love until it is convenient. Ho might just as well advise them not to
to bo thirsty until they have the price of a bottle of wine. What is the girl doing while the boy is watching her ears, and will she have no say in the matter of the
passion
I find myself unable t
to endorse advice. I have been young, and. when I was young I did not associate The ideas of love and convenience. I fell in love when I had no prospects and not two Cuins to chink together, and the girl was as poor as L Prudence took a back seat. were out
We
out for happiness and love, not prudence,
3. Had Mr. Bennett's book been written then and had we heeded it we never should have married, "Looking back now I feel that no
· and no stccess could have compen sated me for the loss cold prudence would have entailed upon us. Does not Mr. Den nett remember those lines of Browning'at They are in a posis called Youth and Art,
No, we need not regret the old grim times, with their discipline of whippings and snub- bings, and repressions, though we seem lath to break ourselves of the babit of preaching and upbraiding. The educational value of brutality and sternness has been overrated. The finest educational influence is example. In the preface of my Advice to Old Fogies I shall use the talisman of a good example, Never have I, thank heaven, written a
And don't you
ou do it neither," Then I shall go on to point out that if we desire to influence the minds of the young and raise posterity to the moral and aesthetic altitude of the eighteen-fifties we need not bore the public with volumes of cant;
Weary for all of us, even the humble and the most modest, can by the shining example of our own virtue, our own wisdom, our own taste in tics and dinners and music
jewellery and jumpers, gradually fin recalcitrant youth from the vices
follies
of the age, so that future generations shall be as worthy, or almost as worthy, as our- selves, and oven the sancy, independent, cigarette-smoking, modern minx shall not new xpend three half crowns on a book pro fessing to tell her how to make the best of life.-Mustrated Sunday Herald
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In connection with the proposed School in which a woman who has married money of Hygiene, to be established by the tells a sculptor who has married art how Rockefeller Foundation, the Minister of when they wer
and were young poor they might have married but they missed it lost it, for ever,"
and she says:-- Ench life's unfulfilled, you see;
It hangs still, patchy sou scrappy; We have not siglied deep, laughed free,
Starved, feasted, despaired been happy.
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