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Show j TIMELYT0PIC3 ) YOUTH OR MATUHITYT . Tha quest ion whether youth le to be preferred to a mora mature period of life haa furnished food for controversy from tha earliest tlmee. and fortunately for-tunately we are no rearer a final anawsr tndsy thsn wa were when Cicero glorified old age. Kor thla Is one of the few queetlona In which the 1m-nneall.lllty 1m-nneall.lllty of a definite aolutlon need not deprive tha parties to tha conlroverey of any fun. As a thema lo Inspire poets, youth hss a shade the better over 'Old age. The writers who laud ths pleaeuree of the declining yeers of Ufa aeem to be somewhat on tha defensive, as If they were rescuing rescu-ing old age from becoming considered a neceeeary although mild affliction. While tlmee who tune their lyre to youth sing with thA aaaurance of one who scents victory In the air. They tell ua that for youth Ufa la still In tha making, and thai youth la free. It la thla last note on which a recent writer on the aublnj't selxea In an effort In appraise Ihe alleged freedom of youth. Youth, ha says. Is a 'time when one did what one didn't WAnt to. One wes hslpleea much aa In the armjf on drifted through Ihe yeara with bewilderment . . often In a siata of apprehension aa to what was going to happen next. It la tha time when the born bolt and nut manufacturer Is obliged ts study English poetry, when Ihe Inspired painter or musician Is compelled to master conlo aectlone. It la a period of Introspective morbidity, of callow religious hye-terla. hye-terla. of agonising ahyneaa. Tha most delightful thing about thla whole controversy con-troversy la that anything that may be aald on the subject Is so tinged with peraonal feeling and reflects so much the Individual's own experience that what may be Irua of him may atlll he wholly untrue In lha rase of another Individual. Many grownups looking look-ing today at youth about them will wonder where, anyone ever got the Idea thai theea ynung people were afflicted with "agonising shynsss." And ons may conceivably find many old people who will readily admit that If Anything hAa got hold of youth about them It Is not "callow rellgloua hys-terla." hys-terla." Fortunately this theme will continue to Invite writers and sneakers of all aorta We ahall learn nor and mora about old ago and youth; but un-leea un-leea the future la not to b Interpreted by the past, every Individual will gather Jlla final aolutlon to this question from hie own personal xperlence-(r'rom xperlence-(r'rom tha Marlon Star.) , |