Show sophistication Is going out A youth doffing the soiled mantle of those embittered by disappio disappointment A A COLLEGE DEAN sad recent t ly that being sophisticated is going can it be true that the craze for sophistication to appear blase to seem worldly wise to know it all to be hard boiled and contemptuous of the simple things can it be true that modern youth is through with it and why Is the advent of old fashioned hats and ruffles so influencing fluen cing our point of view that modern youth now wants to throw sophistication into the discard I 1 think I 1 know the reason 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 have ci bumped into the derivation of sophisticated for sophisticated means adulterated look it up and see if it and come to think of it it have a better name if the wisest of us had tried to put a fitting label on that loss of youths natural and beautiful freshness if a genius hac tried to express that warping of standards that ta inting of taste that souring of outlook that premature aging of all the sensibilities he could have manufactured no better word than sophisticated for sophistication is an aaion of viewpoint of judgment of taste by the taint of frustration the bitterness of disillusionment the poison of disappointment the dregs of the cup of poor experience true life is not all beauty or joy or perfection neither is it all bitter or sour or wrong one of the most powerful weapons in the hands of is its freshness its faith to write on its own slate only beauty and perfection and when youth prematurely dons the soiled and shabby mantle of those who have known disappointment and failure it does right to call this by the name sophistication a synonym of adulteration a bell syndicate WN U service |