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Show Is Thirty : ths IfOve Deadline 4' Munlugut Glass was born in UtifjUnut at Manchester,' July . ? f .S77, but when he was Ihnlnn years old, in lS'JO, he o'nm to the United States. lie. nl tended the College of the Cit if of Sew York and from tl'rr continued his studies al Xni York 'university then he branched out into iournalism. I ut mmt time he devoted his lime to newspaper work, until lOW when he developed the immortal characters, Potash una I'erlmutter. Montague Class has also written many plnijs and books, among the latter lat-ter being "llis Uonor. Abe Potash," Pot-ash," one of the most successful success-ful of the dozen of books about his kquacious brain-children. Mr. Glass, readers may be in tcrrsted to know, is married and al present lives in the south of France. By MONTAGUE CLASS "ily niece got uiurrled lust uight to 51 ax Tretimunn but he don't love her," Abe 1'otush unnounced the other day. "Why, I thought he wus crusy tthoui her!" Morris I'vrliiiutter ex claimed. "What makes you tliltik that be don't love her?" "Well, he was thirty years old last week." Abe said, "and Will Durunt, the uuthor of 'The Ten Best I'tillos ophers of V.rSt,' says that It's Impos eihle for a man uf thirty to full In love or- for a woman neither for that matter." "And how old Is tlds here Will Durunt?'' Morris usked. "1 don't know exactly, but I suspect tie's twenty-seven or twenty-eight," he replied, "which when he gets to be ' uhout thirty himself, Muwruss. he'll Klve out unother statement pushing the uge limit live years further, so I that by the time he's seventy, y'under stund, he'll say that no man over seventy-five can fall In love, und If he's bed-rldiien at that time, he'll be bold ' lug hands with the trained nurse and ' telling her confidentially Hint he meant eighty-live." "Maybe you're right, becuuse I don't know what the nge limit for philoso pliers Is when It comes to falling In i love," Morris said, "but I do know that ninny a millionaire of sixty or over has fallen so dangerously la love with a prima donna of forty-live that r his relations have been thinking of (retting out an Injunction to prevent the millionaire's fortune from being passed on by the prima donna to hei if next husband or anyhow to the Casino at Monte Cnrlo." I "But you could't call that fulling In love exactly so far us the prima donna don-na is concerned," Abe remarked. "Why not?" Morris asked. "Which 1 ain't no. author of 'How to Be a Philosopher In Ten Lessons,' or any such book ns that, y'understnnd but at the same time, Abe, I don't see no reason why a prima donna of forty-five forty-five shouldn't fall in love with a mil lionulre of sixty-seven not If I was on the Jury which was trying the breach of promise case anyhow." "Rut what this here Will Durant calls fulling In love !s where a man i or woman couldn't eat or sleep for s, four of losing the party of the second part," Abe said. "In fact what this here Durant said was that any man or woman couldn't show that true de votion which Is the equivalence of faliing in love unless they was under thirty." "Well, that only goes to. prove that Durant may be a first class, A-intm-ber-one philosopher hut that he ain't practical, because, Abe, flowers, the-ayter the-ayter tickets, meals In restaurants and automobile riding has become so expensive nowadays that a man un ler thirty nln't got the money to s'.ow true devotion,'1 Morris declared "Von can't show true devotion with one box of mixed chocolates and bon bohf every Saturday night In these times Abe, otherwise somebody over thirty will come along and show truer devo tion with a ten-dollar pair of seats for the Follies and dinner at a Park avenue restaurant before the show and how Is a young feller of less than thirty going to meet such competition unless he forges checks on his em plovers or something?" "There's a whole lot In what vou say," Abe agreed, "although you are talking about falling In love from the standpoint of a business man and oot ' a philosopher." "Maybe I am," Morris said, "but even people In love are more businesslike business-like than they used to be, Abe, ind you'd be surprised at the number of romnntic young ladles under thirty who, when they have fallen In love with a young man and then discover that he nln't got the price of a square cut solitaire engagement ring, fall Im f mediately out of love again." "Then you don't agree with Will Durant?" Abe asked. "I don't say that I do, and I don't say that I don't," Morris concluded. "But to my mind, Abe, nothing makes b man look so youthful and loverlike In the eyes of a beautiful young girl, than when he comes round to see her with a spray of orchids In one hand and a square-cut slx-carnt solitaire diamond ring In the other." ( tJ' br (h Bell Synrtlcata Inc.) |