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Show day without a particle of dread as to his future years, and understand that the greatest opportunity of his life ' is yet before him. American iiaga- ' zine. ; The Years After Fifty. When men pass the half-century mark, they usually regard themselves as going down bill. A discovery which I made by talking with those who were really living in the tatter period was that many of them regarded their experience of life In the advancing years as the best part of the whole. It did not appear on the surface; it was not any marked success before the world, and it was net appeal, perhaps, to those in the aarlier life; but many of those people told me they felt that they were living liv-ing the happiest days of all. There seems to be a mysterious quality of life in these lafer years which is not found in the earlier part, something that is worth while in the living of it; and no one has had all of human life until he has been through these years and found it Then, and not before, I came back to the conviction that one who has attained at-tained a half-century of clean, honest living, is worthy of congratulation; j that he ought to pass his tiftieih birth- |