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Show QUIET HAPPINESS Most people dread the coming com-ing of old age. Women especially espe-cially hate to think of the later lat-er years. But, as Miss Norris points out, the years after sixty six-ty may be peaceful and happy. hap-py. With reasonable security and fair health, it is possible for a woman to enjoy life more than she ever did. There is at last an opportunity for reading, and for any hobbies that she may want to follow. The chance to study the wonders won-ders of nature has now come. Most important, says Miss Norris, is for the older woman to have a real purpose. She must feel useful. Some sort of work, such as helping her daughter or daughter-in-law with the housework or the babies, or some charity or social so-cial -service anything really worthwhile will give the elderly el-derly woman a sense of real importance. There are even some opportunities to earn a good bit at part-time employment, employ-ment, such as clerking in a little lit-tle store. The freedom of old age is a great compensation for the loss of pleasure that belong to youth and middle age. The realization comes that a lot of the scurrying around doesn't matter, that a lot of the social obligations are just a nuisance, and can well be forgotten. Old age can be happier, all things considered, than any other time of life. |