Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1916 — As the Years Roll On. [ARTICLE]

As the Years Roll On.

You remarked fatuously the other day, “I’m just as young as I ever was.” Oh, no, you’re not! If young people weren’t too polite they’d soon undeceive you. You have been so busy leading a successful life that you have forgotten to notice that your successful life has been led. Youth is flouting you every day. Youth is through with you. You appeal to it for recognition, and it laughs at you. You still young? You? No, indeed I Look at real youth pursuing its fantastic preferences; at Reginald Warneford, engaging a Zeppelin single-hand-ed, in regions near the sun; at Ottp von Weddigen leaving his bride to carry on a desperate w'arfare under seas. Do you honestly sympathize with them? —Atlantic Monthly.