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Show least suggested that 1 hud not quite reached senility, that there was still xome life and activity In me. We all dislike admitting that all semblance f ulh has disappeared. 1 was tirteeii, as I now remember. Kill airl very slender, but badly muscled, mus-cled, when Mr. t'orrlnglnn visited us Mr. Corrtngton was a man of experl ence and of fluiinclal standing. He had traveled a good deal. He had MPIn nilll'h nf tlia a., .plil l,n ....! ....,!.. there Is nothing which o flutters him us lo he thought uiuture and sophlstl en led? Young people of today mora than any other young people I have known want lo be thought experienced, und sophisticated. The young have always al-ways despised youth and have done their best to conceal 11 or to evade Us limitations and lis restrictions, but never so eagerly as they try today to I YOUTH AND AGE S By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK 2 V Deso of Men, University of S ft ' Illinois. , S "Hello, young boy." the conductor said to me as he recognized m r,., seen much of the world, he bad made a tremendous business success, und we all vulued his Judgment upon what ever subject he chose lo -express him self. We listened when Mr. Corrlng ton spoke. "How old are you?" he asked me one day after wulchljig my movements for a time. "Fifteen." I replied. "You look older," he said. "I should have thought you seventeen ut leust." lie could not have said a more pleasing or Haltering tiling lo me. I was euger to be grown up I wanted umsl of all to be thought a man The most humiliating thing which could haipen to me was t he spoken to as if I were a child. Seventeen he said I looked. I drew myself up and threw my shoulders buck. I was mil so far from manhood as I hud feared Why Is it that when one Is old noth mg so pleases him us to he thought young, and Ihul when one Is young deny its inexperience, nothing pleases a college hoy more than to call him 'old man '; nothing gives hlin greater lrritnih.il than to Indicate to him thai after all he Is still a good deal of a child even though be may have seen twenty years. He wants to he grown up; he wants to be wise; he is ool .satisfied wltb youth. And so old age looks back and longs for what It does not have. Mrs. Uould, wrinkled and stoop-shouldered ul seventy five, dresses like a young girl of sixteen, wears chllTon stockings and shoes with French heels which pinch her feel almost beyond human endur a nee. She rouges her cheeks and pencil tier eyebrows ull with the hope 1 hat people will think her young. Crazier was wearing a wig the last lime I saw him to conceal his bald head, and t'onnor Is dyeing his gray hair a shiny black. Voutb und age I I'.ach envies the other. ( ISi !! Western Newapapof tlnlon. I when I was ,;et "g onto the train, "you took like a kid today.' Now I knew verj well that I was Inking anything hut like s yoiiun hoy li Is as dlf ftYull lo simulate youth when one l past middle age as It Is fot youth lo sliuu I fl I 0 iniiliu-llv but I was fluttered by his suggestive words. I liked bis greeting. It ut I |