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Show TRAILING OLD FASHIONS. How often In reading we run across some such phrase ns this: "Old-fashioned ldens of morality." Or we hear a person about to deliver an Impromptu Im-promptu homily, say: "I may hav old-fashioned Ideas about the sacred-nesa sacred-nesa of the murrlngo vow, but " Ol a mother any: "My children could havo more money than I bad when I was a girl, but I am golug to bring them up In the oldfnaliloned way. My Kills shall know bow to cook and do housework If nocoasury, and they will make good housewives ami mothers." "Father hue such old-fashioned notions," no-tions," auld a high school boy. "lie has made us all promise not to drink wine or play cards until we are twenty-one. And he sua It's the boyi who havo old-fashioned pureut! who become be-come tho successful men." There are worse tilings man being old-fashioned. Progress is all very woll, providing It progresaoa. But why should we feel It neecssary to call our Ideas of right living old-fashioned and to speak of them In a seml-apolo-Betlc manner? If old fashioned, so much the totter on that very account. They have the barking of experience. They hove been Irkd and tested by our parents and our grandparents. We hear of "old-fashioned polite ness," and the "gentleman ot the old school" who la so rarely aeen among lit,. Why should these vlrtuea be called old fashioned? la It not a discreditable dis-creditable rVtlectlon upon us twentieth century people? A tew more old-fashioned people are needed In this know-It all ago and generation. gen-eration. Chicago Journal. |