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AGE AND YOUTH.

A BEWILDERING THEORY.

(KY ROME MACALLAT.)

There are few things (among life's minor irritations) more tiresome than to be hearing and reading continually statements which one cannot understand. This article la a plea for more light on one of these state-- monte, one particularly popular at the present moment, and one which, so fat as I know, has never get been intelligently and precisely expounded by any of its makers,

I feel that the time has come when the theory expressed by the statement should bo sifted to the bottom, cannot sift it, for I do not hold it; but it seems to me to be up to one of those who do hold it to gire reason for the faith which is in them.

The theory I refer to is, in brief, that young people and elderly people form, as it were, at the present moment, two separate and heterogeneous races, of which the one is intrinsically nobly, the other intrinsically buse. This theory was, for instades, old- quently expounded the other day to u naturally bighly gratifiol audience of young people by Sir James Barrie. It has been, since the recent European War, expounded bath by young and elderly persons almost all the time.

AGE OF DETERIORATION, Now what do these people mean They must wear one of two things: (1) Thap people are, for the most part, very noble until about twenty five (I as not sure what the precise age of deterioration is), and after that begin to decline in virtue, so that by the time they are middleaged they are every base; or (b) that the pro sent generation of persons under twenty- five or so happen, for some reason or rea- sons known, to" be an exceptimally noble generation, quite unlike all the generations of vipers which have proceded them. This, if so would be a portent which should receive investigation,

If the theory is (1), I would ask any holder of it whether be baš observed in his owo experience, among his particular circle of acquaintances, that the same in- dividual who asel to Le noble at tweaty is base at fifty or sixty, and, if so, at what age (approifaately) did the deterioration set in, how is it to be explained, could it have been averted with sufficient care, and in it inevitable that those who are now young and roble will go the same way. or can they do anything about it?

If, on the other hand, (b) is the theory held (and this seems to be the less pessi- mistic theory, holding out more hope for the world), how is the phenomenon of L new and nobler race, suddenly sprung into being at the close of the nineteenth con- tury or the begincing of the twentieth, to be scientifically explained? What caused it 2. Was it the Boer War, or the death of Queen Victoria, or merely the advent of a new century? And will this generation of goda bo always; as noble and as virtuous as it a to day? And is it unique, just one stranges irruption of heaven into earth, or will the next and subsequent genera tioas follow suit? Possibly they will, for they will, of course, have the most marvellously excellent bringing up from their admirable young parents. Yes, () is certainly the more hopeful theory. But is it-the theory actually "held?

रहे

Both theories are interesting with un uncanny interest which has not, so far, been sufficiently remarked on. Both are romantically strauge. For the ordinary prosaic point of view, encouraged by, that inromantic thing, daily observation, is to regard vice and virtue-and all separate vices and virtues as questions rather of individual character, training, and environment than of age, sex or any other of theseway divisions beloved of the generalizer.

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It is natural to suppose that those who are noble at twenty will be noble at sixty, and, that those who are bass at sixty were base at twenty, and even in the cradle (ns the Freudians will delight to say). It would be interesting to have statistics on this point. Experience seems to show that one elderly person is quite different from another elderly person, and one youth from another youth, and that, in point of cold fact, pen ple do not change so very much, except physically. Do all the old and elderly look back on their youth as a time of high virtue, on their subsequent life as a steady slip- ping down the steep path-Timer.

IF OBEY " GOES.

The proposed elimination of the word "obey" from the Episcopal marriagó service in the United States has elicited a strong protest from the Bishop of Colorado, Dr. Irving Fr Johnson, who addressed the following admonition to his countrywomen :-

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word 'obey' out of court in Hamily life, and the divorce courts are proving that theorists are having their way Let us go on. eliminating existing authority because it ¡is not perfect, and we shall have anarchy. Let us go on advising every- body that they can have privileges with- out assuming responsibility, and we shall bare Bediam."

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The Bev. B. G. Bourchier, vicay of St. Jade-on-the-Hill, Hampstead. Garden Suburb, writing on the subject of good manners, and tho present-day lack of them, says: "The younger generation would appear to be utter strangers, to such things. They are, of course, more to be pitied than blamed. Parents, tear chers, choirmasters, employers, etc., in failing to instil into their charges the common courtesies of life, are guilty of

The bishop declares that "if the word abey' is scrapped when the marriage i solemnised the courts will serap alimony if the marriage goes on the "rocks. In asmuch as the husband under the exist ing system is responsible for making the living, the wife must obey his reason able demand not to run up bills beyond the capacity of his income," If the wife A succeeds in discarding all obedieace the observe the little courteous acts of life is

very grave wrong. inevitable consequence will be, says the simply the mark of either parental ill bishop, that man will either abey her breeding or or the couple will get divarced

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suburban snobbishness. Take, for example the prevailing absence of saying 'Bir in the course of¬conver In his presidential address to this Insation. To what is it due, except to the stitute of Hygiene, Sir Malcolm Morris insufferable conceit, of the age? If only declared that a great many of the nervous our very young friend-be he office boy, and other ailments, for which so many choir boy, or junior clerk, could but see giris and young women engaged in busi- himself as he really is, he would realise news and professional life had to seek how feszfully bounderish such conduct is. medical advice, were due to chronic: I thank God that I was both taught and malnutrition, the result of their having expected to address my own father an got to the habit of eating too little, "Sir' to the day he died.”

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