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Show All Knowledge Net Possessed by Youth Dear me, with all their superior knowledge, how ignorant the younger generation, one might say the youngest young-est generation, is about some things. A new story came into the house and mother essayed to read it aloud. It was about "gypsies." Hardly bad she begun when a chorus of small voices usked. "What's a 'gypsy'?" And it was hard explaining about a covered wagon, wag-on, for the next question was, "What's a 'wagon'?" And some didn't even understand un-derstand what a "pair of horses" was. Never did mother have it brought home to her so keenly that this was an automobile age. And there is nothing that makes a high-school pupil feel that her mother Is more ancient than to have that same mother say. 'There were no automobiles automo-biles in my high-school days ; we always al-ways went buggy riding." Instantly the high-school maiden thinks of her mother, as dated some time before tho Civil war, and one high school child had the nerve to question her mother as to her experiences during the Kev-olutionary Kev-olutionary war. Mother came back nt daughter a hit, though. She said casually. "There was no such thing as a radio In your life until you reached high-school age, j was there?" Daughter tried to prove I that radio only happened the other day, as It were, but mother emphasized empha-sized her point that Inventions are coming along faster than people are. Springfield Union. I |