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Show Laments Passing of the "Good Old Times" j Times- have changed and people have grown so serious that Hie old de light In holidays has vanished, Is the complaint voiced by. the wriler of an editorial In Liberty Magazine. "April Fools' day was one of the bright spots of the year," points out the editorial. "There was u brick under un-der Hie huf; the kIiiITciI pockelhooli with the string lied to It. Breakfast uiulliiis! filled with cotton were a rare jest, and rn was candy shot through e. illi cay e line pepper. It was a long lime anticipated and long remembered, lis were St. Valeiitine'H day, Christmas Christ-mas eve. Ilalloween, and Hie night before be-fore Hie I'ourili of July. On Thanksgiving Thanks-giving we went to gi anduiollier'H house ( and ate gorgeously. There uren't such grandmothers tiny more, or such cranberries. cran-berries. "Christ runs nv means hills to meet," continues file disillusioned writer. "Independence- day has been Hindi' n Sane Fourth. We no longer gel any fun oul of April Fools' day. Those nnolliclal childish holidays were n kind of possession peculiar lo Hio paid. They are nol Hie same now. We are grown up and serious, and times have changed." |