Show sophistication Is going ins L youth doffing the soiled mania those embittered by disappointment COLLEGE DEAN sa d recent regent aly AA ly that being sophisticated is going out of fashion can it be true that the craze for sophistic sophistication aaion to appear blase to seem worldly wise to know it all to be hard boiled and con of the simple things can it be true that modern youth is through with it ita and why Is the advent of old fashioned hats and ruffles so in fluen cing our point of view that modern youth now wants to throw sophistication into the discard I 1 think I 1 know the rason r ason says a woman writer of international reputation modern youth must have found out the real meaning of the word poring over their dictionaries they must li ve ac ci dently bumped into the denva tion of sophisticated for sophisticated I 1 m means e a n s adulterated look it up and see if it doesn doean t I 1 and come to think of it it couldn coulden t have a better name if the wisest of us had tried to put a fitting label on that loss of youth youths s natural and beautiful freshness if a genius hac tried to express that warping of stand ards that tainting of taste that souring of outlook that premature aging of all the sensibilities he could have manufactured no better word than I 1 sophisticated for sophistication is an atlon of viewpoint of judgment of taste by the taint of tion the bitterness of disillusion ment the poison of disappoint ment the dregs of the cup of poor experience true life is not all beauty or joy oy or perfection either neither is it all bitter or sour or wrong one of the most powerful deap ons in the hands of is its freshness its faith to write on its own slate only beauty and perfection and when youth pre maturely dons the soiled and shabby mantle of those who have known disappointment and fail fall ure it does right to call this by the name sophistication a synonym of adulteration C bell cate ce cc |