Presenting Millicent's Musings (or, Farthingale's Finds)

Every so often, Ex-Gifted Child Millicent Farthingale will grace us with her presence in this humble space. As someone who exited Gifted Childhood before the Industrial Revolution, we always welcome her sage insight.


"Greetings, gentle Readers.

If you will permit me a moment of indecorous willfulness, I simply must opine once more on the young people of this age. In the days of my virtuous youth, young men entertained themselves by leafing through collections of etchings while ladies partook in calming embroidery.

Civil, pleasant conversation was made at every approach and friendly acknowledgments given to passing strangers enforced bonds of fond regard. Of course, this was excepting servants, laborers, the poor, those of Afric or Oriental backgrounds, men suspected of buggery, those suffering maladies of the skin or brain, the unfashionable, and unmarried ladies of ill repute.

Presently, the generation scarcely makes time for parlor room entertaining, favoring in its stead the bothersome calls of mobile telephony typographical transmission and the You Tube, where strumpets and harlots prance before the Camera in immodest garments revealing the very appendages of their maternity.

For shame, youth!"


...Millicent also included the following link, which should be of interest to those who agree that the 21st century causes one great melancholy.