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Show Tint l-'oinitalii C Voutlt. Idko pretty much everything else tho mutter of having children 1ms two sides to It, says tho Saturday Evening Post. As u great many children nre failures, nnd ns children nre the Joint product of heredity nnd environment, both elements preponderantly under parental control, It would seem more sensible to say that there aro too many people undertaking parental responsibility responsi-bility Instead of too few. And further, fur-ther, parontalhood has many cares and sorrows nnd exiisperatlons. Still, when all Is said, how ninny porWns wlio found themselves childless nt forty-Hve havo been able honestly to congratulate themselves? Children hnvo u use us nn nssurnncc against destitution nnd loneliness in old nge. They nro satisfactory to the vanity for family Immortality. Hut more th-n these and nil other advantages advan-tages Is the advantage f prolonging one's life. Growing children will keep any proper man or woman young in spirit nud In mind, will retnrd the development de-velopment of that sour yet complacent cynicism which curses old ago both for one's self nnd for those about one, Tho man or woman again, the rigid sort of liinn or woman who has children chil-dren drinks every day a deen draught at tlic fountain of eternal youth. |