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According to Arthur S. Bell, “everything is farther away than it used to be; it's twice as far from my home to the bus line now, and they’ve added a hill that I just noticed; the buses leave sooner too, but I’ve given up running for them because they go faster than they used to.
“Seems to me they are making staircases steeper than in the old days; the risers are higher and there are more of them, because I’ve noticed it’s harder to take them two at a lime. It’s all one can do to make one step at a time.
“Have you noticed tae small print they are using lately? Newspapers are getting farther and farther away when I hold them and I have to squint to make out the news. Now, it is ridiculous to suggest that a person of my age needs glasses but it is the only way I can find out what’s going on without someone reading ajoud to me.' That wouldn’t be much help because everyon'V seems to speak in such a* low voice that I can scarcely hear them.
“Times" sure are changing. The material in my clothes, I notice, shrinks in certain places . (you knowr, like around the waist and in the seat). Shoe laces are so short that they are next to im' possible to reach. Even the weather is changing; it is getting colder in the winter -and the summers are hotter than in the good
old days. Snow is nrt^ch heavier, too, when I attempt to shovel it, and rain is so much wetter that I have to wear rubbers. I guess the way they build windows now makes a draft more severe.
“People are changing, too. For one thing, they are younger than they use to be when I was their age. On the other hand, people my age are much older than I am. I realize that my generation is approaching middle age but there is no reason for my friends tottering into senility.”
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