Note 7 — Chapter Four

... I was never able to take those differences of taste seriously which accept the antimacassar in one generation and ridicule it in the next. As I used to say to my daughter Paula, who before she became State Superintendent of Schools had a small modernistic gift-shop of her own in Cleveland, a good thought for anyone to hold, who was over-impressed by the rightness of his own time as over and above all other times, was Omar Khayyam’s salty old observation that tomorrow we may be with yesterday’s seven thousand years. I often wonder to what appalling extent my clear-eyed Paula must think me the old fogey.