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Show EACH AGE HAS ADVANTAGE Hard to Tell Which, From Childhood to the End, May Be Called the "Best." Which is the best age? Are we to believe the professor who tells us that a man's best work is done before he is forty, or Hubert Browning, who exalts old age ttnd cries, "Grown old along with me the best Is yet to be!" Childhood, remarks a writer in London Lon-don Answers, has a magic and a mystery mys-tery which can never be regained. Out of its imagination a child shapes its own world and creates Its own delights de-lights in life. Youth is the time when we find our greatest physical expression. Our ideals take form and we are neither fettered by failures nor spoilt by success. suc-cess. Normal youth believes it can conquer all obstacles and achieve all ends. Maturity knows better. The man of forty is balanced by experience, and while his mental faculties should have reached their hi. host point of development, develop-ment, physically he Is not a back number. num-ber. And what of Browning's old age? ta the hest yet to be? Perhaps. The man who has been a failure is near the end of his earthly troubles, and the man who has succeeded uwy'.ts with a sense of fulfillment, the next great adventure. |