most interesting papers in a remarkable series: We
need not he idolators of the past to realize how much we have lost in the disappearance of that old. leisured
world. Its conventions were often irritating, hist they had generally some reason behind them. In one thing we have certainly not advanced. The young in those days were brought far more into the company of their elders, whereas to-day they tend to herd only with their coevals. How rarely one sees young people at an ordinary grown-up dinner party ! It may be said that they would only be bored, but I wonder if that is true. I can remember in my young days with what it thrill I found myself in the company of some distin- guished elder and listened to his or her table talk. It is a good thing for youth to mix with age, and I do not believe that youth finds it a burden. At any rate, I have often heard young people complain of the present tendency to segregate them in a maturer nursery. * * * *
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