TOO MUCH HARPING ON YOUTH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21267, 23 February 1931, Page 14

TOO MUCH HARPING ON YOUTH.

I do think we have gone a bit crazy over this business of trying to look, behave like, act, and be the sixteen we “ ain’t ” and never will be !

In fact, I have a mind to predict that the very repetition of this “ youth ” theme is going to be the cause of a revolt one of these days. On a shopping trip the other day with a little girl not quite two years old, to make her sale of a spring hat and coat the saleswoman stressed the fact over and over again that that outfit (one-year-old size, mind you) was “youthful”!

Sez I to myself; “Great Jehosephat, does that matter at two 7 ” '

At another stop in the day’s shopping adventure a handbag was under contemplation —one for me, not one for' the less than two-year-old. “This,” said the saleswoman, “is a youthful bag, and that’s what you want, isn’t it 7 ”

An acquaintance declares that when she was trying to decide between two different makes of car for herself, the youthfulness of the body line of one of the cars was stressed.

If this keeps up you can see what we’re in for. We’ll be insisting, unless we get “ right-er ” in the head, that we have a youthful train to travel on; that the train runs on youthful railway lines, that the dining room offer us only young carrots, young potatoes, young steaks, young roast beef and chops; that our heads rest only on young pillows and our bodies on young mattresses. It sounds extremely silly to me, and I’m certainly not one who would go in for advocating unnecessary age in face, grace', or figure, as you know ! ' But honestly, aren’t we getting just a little bit “ mental ” on the young stuff ?

And wouldn’t a scrap more sanity on the subject be appreciated by all and sundry ? Wouldn’t a calmer acceptance of maturity dissipate a lot of the resent-* ment and wrinkles seen in faces now ? Women’s Weekly.