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GeorgetownActon Wednesday Dec IS RES People improve with age morally but why One of the nicer things about growing older is that we grow steadily more pure Its astonishing how we shed sin and don morality with each passing year One night about SO years ago for ex ample I was climbing over a stone wall when a stentorian voice bellowed Hi You My heart leaped into my mouth I leaped to the ground the grapes popped out of my shirt and I took off like a missile pursued by outraged roars and heavy boots Later the of my bed did 1 regret my wickedness revile myself for shattering one of the commandments and swear that Id never do it again Not exactly What I did was regret losing the grapes revile myself for being scared half to death and swear a return visit to the vineyard as soon as the heat was off That a what I mean Today I never consider such a thing Oh I might give my golf ball a very small kick if It was in a particularly bad he in the rough and no body was looking I might tell my wife Id paid the hydro bill in time to get the dis count when I knew perfectly well that it was in my pocket unpaid But Id never dream of doing anything dishonest like stealing grapes Irom a millionaire with a huge estate and a huge gardener as a night watchman Other people are the same The older they get the better they get Not long ago we visited an old acquaintance a woman in her early She had a teen age daughter who was out to dance that night The kid was to be home by one As the hour neared the mother kept break Are they covering their flaming youth with a camouflage of grey by Bill Smiley off her monologue about her church activities her eyes flitting toward the clock By onefifteen we had to restrain her forcibly from calling the police The kid showed up at onethirty You should have heard her mother Youd have thought the youngster was utterly de praved Later as mama served tea and vehe mently wondered what was going to be come of theseundiscipUned teenagers I couldnt help casting my mind back Twenty five years earlier our hostess had been a regular young rip whose specialties were drink ing gin out of the bottle in backseats of cars and going for mixed midnight swims aunaturel Recently I spent a weekend an old college friend He had distinguished himself at university not through academic or athletic prowess but for an incredible memory that could recall the words and tunes of all the bawdy songs ever sung Saturday night I tried to get a few verses of Rileys Daughter or Cats on the Rooftops out of him but he was strangely reticent In the old days you had to bold him down and stuff a sock in his mouth to make him stop singing Sunday morning he acted kind of my him I decided he was taking me to the bootleggers so naturally demurred buy be insisted Ten minutes later my mouth was still hanging open as I sat in the back row of the Sunday School and watched my friend arms waving face beaming leading about eighty small types through the strains of Jesus Loves Me Last spring I bumped Into an old Air Force sidekick in the coffee shop of a city hotel Hadnt seen him since Brussels 1945 His name was Dick but we called him The Count in those days because he was reputedly and enviedly living in sin with a beautiful rich Belgian countess He was a big handsome devil maycare chap then Anyway we chatted He was pretty fat pretty bald pretty dull Remember when we used to call you The Count I asked in an effort to establish some com mon ground He muttered something like Count me out and launched rapidly into a spiel on the work he was doing with Juvenile delinquents through a church group He finally ran out of breath there was an awkward pause then Guesa you havent met the wife be said turning to a large redfaced woman sitting on the stool beside him eating a vast sundae It was not the And bo it goes You can see them every where people who were once steeped in sin and now pass the collection plate who were once steeped in gin and whose inflamed noses now light the way for the valiant armies of the temperance move ment Reformed lechers lead the attack on pornography and prostitution Reformed poachers want the game laws tightened Ancient golfers will take off as few as five strokes from their actual score Sex fiends become sa Its as plain as the wart on your nose that people improve with age morally if not physically But Id still like to know why Is It because they have learned to res pect the law and other peoples property Is it because they know the day of is beating down and theyre trying to cover their flaming youth with a nice coat of camouflage grey Or is it that they simply dont have the stamina to be sinful any more Perhaps some of you old sinners could enlighten me MAGNIFICENT LOCATION Urge homo Is backing on To golf count Fantastic 4 bedrooms cor garage main float family room plus many other salutes CaflDamian REDUCED COUNTRY LIVING AT AFFORDABLE PftlCEl Thaj homo offers many tin features landscaped lot 3 bedroom potential tor moot 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