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Show All Knowledge Not Possessed by Youth Dear me, with all their superior knowledge, how Ignorant the younger generation, one might say the youngest young-est generation. Is nbout some tilings. A new story came into the house aud mother essayed to read It aloud. It was about "gypsies." Hardly had she begun when a chorus of small voices asked. "What's a "gypsy ?" And it was hard explaining nbout a covered wagon, wag-on, for tiie next question was, "Whafa 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 uge. 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 d:iys: we always al-ways went hnggy ddlnz.' InHtatiTly the hlgii-sehonl maiden thinks of her mother, as dated some time before ihe Civil war, and one high school child had the nerve to question her mother j as to he r experiences during the Uev- I oiution-.iry n ::r. Mother came back at oaiighter a H though. She s;:;d caoa'!y. "There was no su'-h thing as a rodio In yeur life ui".:ii you reaehed high-s( ho.jl a -e. I wu.s there?' Ita'jg'::tor rrted to pruvf that rdio nn!y havpet.ed the ether cay, as It were, but mot tier empln!-sh:ed empln!-sh:ed her point that Invenr ons are ci'juirc ahmj faster then peoree are Springfield Union. |