Show I 10 oI o 0 p o I TIMELY TOPICS b I Ip TI-IF TI TV TYRANNY OF OJ YOUTH The overestimate of youth Is a phrase of weak weak- nes ness The he dI disposition to lament passing is an evidence evidence evidence evi evi- evi- evi dence that one has not found the s secret cre of happy life Ufe Youth is the time o of enthusiasm bright hopes and hot bot ot desires The The tendency o of the Immature mind is to consider these things the best part of existence If we are fortunate enough to acquire any wisdom as we e grow older we find that contentment does not lodge in these things but isa prize to be e gained by bythe bythe bythe the normal use of our will our Intelligence and our skill in self mastery The sentiment which crops crops crops' out so often otten in poetry and in novels that the joy of lifes life's morning Is all that's worth while Is closely akin of cynicism For Tor It leads to cynicism and to despair when the early period Is once past The Impression you get from the average novel noel Is that the Interesting part of life Is over when the young people are married and done for tor As a matter of fact the best part of life ought to be after fifty We Ve begin life as young animals We ought to wind it up up as great spirits And age gels is better than youth precisely as as' as the life of the spirit Is better than the life Ufe of the flesh precisely as an Intelligent human being ought to be happier than an unthinking ing animal The average American family is dominated by the children This Is bad for them and for tor or everybody else It makes them intolerant selfish and disagreeable And it reduces their parents to a state of peonage The truth that every parent ought to know is that if It a childs child's youth is to be a permanent asset in his life it must be made a period of discipline rather than of self No one wants to go back to the heartless callous and unsympathetic system of treating children They I should have their full portion of love appreciation and understanding But at the same samo time the they should bo be made to realize that life nCe is not a matter of ot having a good time It is a matter of self mastery honor of and of heroism Such qualities alone bring permanent hap hap- An And such qualities do not grow in a soil of continual Indulgence It Is not a a choice between whether one shall be happy when he is old or when ho is young it is IR I rather an Intelligent taking up of the problem how so to govern the pleasures of all our days das with tempe temperance nce as tO make malte ones one's ne B h whole hole le lIfe worth while Marion Marlon Ma Star t |