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Show AN EDITORIAL BY j FLORENCE DAVIES 4 V OUR .KF PRODIGIES There's mil;, one thing that Seems I to be as sure a death, and taxes and that Is the annual crop of old ladles lover 7" who go back to college not liiittnt. but our aged prodigies. Every year there is at least one and tli o iwspapers aiw.ijs tell about her. on" of the last Is .Mrs. A. P. Crawford, Craw-ford, iio at 7i is studying science it Columbia university. Everybody cries three cheers for Mrs. rawroru. and wishes her well. i all know that she acts and looks and feels young, because everyone of Lhe young, old ladies who go back to (college to stuuv a.ujj do 1'hat part of the story. but It Isn't studying science or going I back to college that makes Mrs C'raw- ford feel and act so young Then ir. .1 g io.l in m; on i laun - wuo can i gei , away to go 10 CblUmoia university vvno are still stuuying science and wno icei just as young no Mis. Cruwforo does. Uollege aoeiin'i turn the trie, though it furnishes lue opportunity i and tne setting tor all tnat ooes No. the big trnng aoout Mra Crawford, niay her tnbe Increase, isn't tnat she had the courage enroll witn the jvoungatera at 1. and walK Into cla n room and sit at a desk, perhaps, and ' un.ivv. i present" to her name when the roll is called, but that she never stopped caring Haruenint, of lhe arteries Is only ,n or me unimportant minor symp- Itoms of old age. The most serious symptom Is indit'erence, the next is a sense of fulfillment, a sense that every imng worth doing lu done. 'Old Charley's done." his rrl.-nds say de-Ijectedly. de-Ijectedly. Thej don't mean he has Idone anything In particular, they Just! mean that he Is done for. that he Is jtlirough. that he has quit caring. Youth in a quality tnat has nothing 'to do with years It is just a symptom symp-tom of courage and divine curiosity, and that splendid aeluslon that thinks 'nungu still matter. Aim they do mat- , ter as long as ve can do anything about them. The old lady who goes to college at 71 Isn't so very remarkable. She just takes a more or less unusual way of di monstratlng the fact that she is still In th.- running, still courageous, still i Curious, still caring. i That road to youth lies open to all lof us. whether we enroll asaln In col-llege col-llege or not. It isn't a matter of school I boo.is, but of conviction. oo |