YOUNG AND OLD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 19 August 1920, Page 3

YOUNG AND OLD

W’a.it do you mean by young? W hat do yon mean by old? casks Mr (4. R. Street in tin' Nineteenth Century), i ,lmve remarked in my time that middle age Is not a period of life but a mental disease, and that may he brought up against me. Wo must he precise, in this connection we must stiek to years, 1 think, because if yon are allowed to say that when an old person understands a. young person the*- former is not really old, tiie : whole business is finished. I wonder if ,iu that sense, anyone in his utmost consciousness is really old. 1 doubt it; A man feels ill or feels tired or fools stupid, hut does he over feel old? Mr do Morgan comments ■somewhere on the curious fact that, whereas ho was older at the time of ■writing than his father was when he died, he thought of his father as an del man and of himself as somehow not really grown up. and though- 1 may doubt that feeling in ihe case of the .censorious, the dogmatic, and the blatantly successful, I imagine it is true of all amiable, humanity.