Show His Slight Error JUAN TUAN AN PONCE DE LEON brave Spanish knight J who had come out with Columbus on his second voyage had heard about a mysterious fountain of youth supposed to be somewhere in Asia Some of Cubas Cuba's aborigines hinted that it might be found on a finger of land a little to the north Post haste he set out for it arriving offshore offshore offshore off off- shore on Easter Sunday of 1513 and naming it poetically Terra de Pascua Florida but failing to locate the revivifying waters Possibly this was because aging Juan had made a slight error error or or several of them In the first place he was nearer to Asia when he set k It sail from Spain than when he arrived in the new world Secondly he was looking for something in Florida that wasn't there or that's where Miami would have been built In the third place he was born more than years too soon It is with that last point that we are now conA conI con- con I A for it was only last Saturday that the fountain of youth was found found after after all these years years and and it wasn't a fountain anyway Its It's a hormone Two Johns Hopkins university scientists scientists scientists found it and told the medical world about it Doctors Samuel A. A Vest and John Edgar Howard the discoverers of the magic magie fluid told medical and brothers that they had tried it out on 17 men of advanced age and found that it partially restored to them characteristics of youth It may not after all aU be an unmixed blessing Before applying for a shot of the miraculous discovery a man would do well to check up on his youth Consulting trusted friends of about his own vintage and looking up police records he might decide that nature knows best and to leave well enough alone The discovery poses again the old question about the relative delights of an anticipation anticipation anticipation an- an and realization realization and and after all aU the aged do have their memories |