Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1918 — Happy Youth. [ARTICLE]

Happy Youth.

It is so easy to say the word that checks laughter; to scowl at the exuberance that bubbles over in foolish girl and boy jests. It is difficult for us of an older generation to remember how, when we were young, we loved to laugh and sing and dance and make merry. Youth is so sensitive and it is so easy to spoil, an evening with just a glance or an Impatient word. When one comes in, glowing from a wonderful evening a querulous voice or a faultfinding word is Hke sticking a pin into a gay balloon. Sympathy is so much better. Even if youth is headstrong the faultfinding does not do very much good, but often harm. But sympathy gains confidence, and confidence between the young and the old is a great safeguard for youth and well worth cultivating.