Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1891 — A Wonderful Instinct. [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful Instinct.

It ts a wonderful instinct that tells youth of age, and teaches the child the weakness of the, grandfather of ninety. The tenderness and care that mere infants almost will display toward the old man whose span of life is nearly done make one of the mo.si interesting and pleasant of studies. Children have a very clear and shrewd conception of the difference between people of different ages. It does not come down perhaps to a year or two, but decades make a difference. The child of five draws a decided distinction in many ways bebetween boy in his teens, the man of thirty, the man of middle life, and the gray-haired grandfather, and part of the instinct which produces that develops the same instinct with regard to sex, and is even finer in application to women than to. men. But it is curious how the child recognizes the nonogenarian, and makes a companion and an equal of him, occasionally showing a sense of superiority.—Hearth and JHaIL