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Reel Life
The Eternal Surprise
Clear the way for the young men. They are entering "the strong, flourishing, and beautiful age of man's life." They decree the changes. The map of the world may be rolled up — every acre tramped upon and inhabited. But still they come, claiming all the rights of the adventurer and pioneer. Domains must be found for them if the old earth has gone stale. If the life of danger and discovery is ended, then they will turn their hand against our secure world and refashion the pleasant places. They will uproot tradition and shatter the institutions. We should like them better if they fitted into our scheme, if they were ruddy and cheery and ended there. But they come earnest and critical. They jeer at our failures, reject our compromises. It isn't our idea of youth, our peaceful picture of wliat youth should be. Poets sing it as if it were a pretty thing, the gentle possession of a golden race of beings. But it is lusty with power and diastrous to comfort. Men sigh for it as if it had vanished with Old Japan at the hour when it is ramping in their courtyard and challenging their dear beliefs. They are wistful for it in their transfigured memory, and they curse it in their councils. For youth never is what the elders would have it. It does unacceptable things, while age stands blinking and sorrowful. It is unruly, turbulent power on its endless track.
— Collier's.
Prepared
She — But, Jack, dear, fancy coming in such shabby clothes to ask papa's consent.
He — That's all right. I once had a new suit ruined.
— Answers, London.
American
Sydney Ayres and Jack Richardson in "Th§ OcQulf
Princess
Boyd Marshall and Muriel Ostriche in " A Shotgun Cupid"
Princess
A Shotgun Cupid
By Bud Duncan Nov. 21, 1913
If the tramp had only known he was being shot with $500, hidden in the old shotgun, likely he wouldn't have yelled bloody murder, nor been so anxious to clear ofiE the scene. It was a joke on everybody all around anyway — and nobody behaved in the least as might have been reasonably expected — not even the mischievous, young pair who had invented the game.
The game was the invention of love driven to desperation. For Jack and Jill were in love — they were sure of it, though not yet out of their teens. And father had told them they must wait — until the day when Jack could show him Hve hundred dollars!
Jill set her wits to work — and when she saw father hiding the money in the gun, until he could take it to town and pay for some property he had recently bought — she put Jack up to robbing the chicken house that night. Her part was to exchange the guns, and see that the string tied to father's toe got twitched at the first breath of disturbance in the coop. Of course nobody took into consideration the possibility of a real thief. When father finds that he has shot away his money at a tramp, he rashly swears that if Jack will only recover it for him, he may marry Jill. This the young lover very cleverly does — and instead of spanking them both when it is all over, father acknowledges himself beaten by shger logic — and cupid — and gives his blessing to the match,