Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1917 — WOMEN NOT MOST GARRULOUS [ARTICLE]

WOMEN NOT MOST GARRULOUS

Writer Calls Attention to Truth Which Is aif Indictment of the , v Sterner Sex. We men are accustomed to deride the garrulity of women; yet I doubt if any women under the sun could comp'ete in loquacity with a pair- or trio or qugrtet of young men r engaged tn the exchange of views on metaphysics, literature or art. We two or three or four spent ambrosial nights, Robert M. Gray writes in the Atlantic. There were no problems too knotty, no reaches of hypothesis too vast for us to attempt. - That was a time of life to remember, when the mind was growing like corn in hot weather. It is a thought that all over the land there are little bands of youths doing as we did. I get wind of one now and then—some boy with all the fire and foolishness, some girl with all the sensibility and sentimentalities, by a chance look or word carries me baek, as a whiff of lilacs or mignonette can transport us into ourchildhood. He is a poor man who never was foolish. It is appalling to4hink over what he has missed. lam glad that thpre was a time when I was omniscient; that there was a time when an opinion was attractive because it was radical, and the “miserable little virtue of prudence” was not a part of my moral code. I think it makes me more charitable toward youth. Whether it does or not, there can be no doubt that the surest corrective and sweetener of life is a vivid memory.