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r. incomes SO nleager that the pal of family dis
 aster hangs over them day by day. see mil
 lions denied education, recreation and oppor-
 tunty to better their lot and the lot of their
 children. I millions lacking the means to
 buy products of farm and factory and by their
 poverty are denying work of productiveness to
 many other millions. I one-third of
 nation il-housed il-clad and ill-nourished
 Just as the welfare of the poor people was the overnasterng concern of the great Lincoln it is likewise the of the nations present President But while the parallel is interesting, it is not the intent of this brief common. to eulogize MT Roose welt. It is, rather to join again with all Americans regardless of party utilization, in paying homage to great man-Abraham Lincoln, whose life was symbol principles and whose stature as states man and humanitarian grows ever more imposing in our American traditions. g g-A @ <.
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MODERN ETIQUETTE
By Roberta Lee

E3E "A e Efss Ta Q. When a man is accompanying two women along the street, should not he walk between them? s&s A. He should walk on the curl iside, and not between the two swo- lmen. s4 e. It is all right to use a visit ling card, on which to acknowledge an invitation?
 A. Never. The acknowledgment should be written on correct white note paper, even if the invitation was received on visiting card.
 @. When serving dinner. how and in which hand should the wait ress hold the dish she is serving?
 A. The dish should be held on a folded napkin, in. the left hand The right hand can be used to steady the dish when necessary.
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Horoscope ''The stars incline
 but do not cOmpel'
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1s, 1s3

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1887 Friendly and unfriendly plane tary influences are discerned for today by the seers, who read in the horoscope something threatening on land and at sea. In the morning it is wise to launch any new enterprise by as- surfing publicity and friendly in- terest. Advertising should be per- sistent.
 Under this plentary government the Administration. in Washington will be engaged in important con- ferences and the outlining of new and stringent policies. The United States Navy may encounter some hostile force or in fluence which will cause grave con- cern in the future. Again the seers forecast many shipwrecks and much severe weather
 Saturn is in an aspect read as threatening labor troubles not yet discernible. While there will be conflicts between rival organiza- tions these may be of minor inn portance compared with other dif- faculties.
 London astrologers predict for Anthony Eden, British Foreign Sec retary new anxieties in which ef- forts to avert war may be thwart- ed Grave internal problems will reach a crisis before May. Prince Starhemberg, Fascist lead- CT in Austria, is subject to aspects that seem to presage a brief per- iod of success this year, but the stars predict that Austria's absorp- tion by Germany is to cause anx- iety as the spring advances.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of much work which should be profitable. but certain difficulties will have to be overcome.
 Children born on this day prob ably will be extremely industrious and reliable. Many subjects of this sign have great talents. Leopold Godowsky, pianist, was born on this day 1870 Others who have celebrated it as birthday in clude David Dudley Field, jurist, 1905; Julia c. R. Dorr, poet. 1925; Edwin Arden, American actor, 1864.
 Copyright, 193D
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LINCOLN. THE HUMANITARIAN

Today the nation pauses again to pay tribute to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, 18th President of the United States Particularly because he became associated with the then rising Republican party as he launched his political career that party natur join with them in the celebration for Lincoln was more than just strong party man. He was a great American; commoner, humanitarian; always seek ing opportunity for the poorer people of which he was one.
 There is aH interesting parallel between Lincoln and the present occupant Of the White House. Re- ferring his Peoria speech October 16, 1854 the Encyclopaedia Britannica says:
 The great speech that day gave him his place in history The change from the made quate politician who had failed in Congress five years before is great as to seem all but incredible For directnesS of vision, for scope of argument for breadth of sympathy the speech is unrivalled by anything in the prev- ous literature of the slavery controversy. Unlike the Abolitionists he admitted no ab- stractions into his thought on this subject and vndictveness he wholly the democrat and the humanitarian; he wanted to check the extension of slavery because he
 thought 1t nhuman but more because, as he put it. new free states places for
 poor people to go to and better their condi-
 tion" This the keynote of his thought
 ever after both in regard to the territories
 and in regard to the preservation of the
 Union He admitted frankly that his over [ mastering concern the welfare of the free /. poor people of the white races.
 The other day at his inaugural President Roose- welt used these words:
 I see millions of families trying to live
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ANSWERS
DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH
 By w. L. Gordol

Words Often Misused: Do not say The climatic conditions did not effect us" Say, did not affect us."
 Often Mispronounced: Mesmer- ism. Pronounce both s's as 2, ac- cent first syllable.
 Often Misspelled: Naptha. Ob- serve the two h's
 synonyms: Tendency, aptitude inclination, proclivity. propensity.
 Word Study: Use a word three times and it is yours" Today's word: Peremptory; possible in op- inion or judgment. (Accent first syllable). Be not too positive anc peremptory. y.'-Bacon.)
 
 The San Francisco Oakland bay bridge cost $77,0OO,000. {,
 ITy an Empire at}.--s--- .-,a~ /
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|N0RL|TE MEN l MEET TUESDAY
 OF NEXT WEEK
Married Men and Single Men Are to Debate
 on Big Subject

Norlitemen are holding their reg
 ular monthly dinner Tuesday night February Is, in the parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian church lat 6:30 o'clock.
 Entertainment for the evening will be debate between three mar tried men and three single men Resolved, that Married Men are Happier than Single Men" Henry Harmon, recent groom Capt. R. B. Lesher, and Charles w.
 Hawkesworth, a quarter of cen- tury married, are upholding the af-
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firmative side of the issue while Curtis Shattuck, Sherwood Wirt, and Werner are debating nega- lively on the question.
 Judges for the contest will be R. E. Robertson, Grover c. Winn and Norman Banfield.
 All men in the community who wish to attend are cordially invit- ed. Reservations should be made before Monday night by telephon- ing the Rev. John E. Chase.
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20 YEARS AGO
 Frum The Empire
FEBRUARY 12. 1917

Little hope prevailed in Berlin that war with the United States was unavoidable or that it would be pos sible to reconcile the policies of the two governments. An important meeting had been called by the Kaiser, presumably to discuss policies of submarine war flare. but it was thought that dip llomatic relations with the United States would also come up for dis Icussion. titis .fAgain say that the Democratic Committee has done noble work When a man like Ike Sowerby is named, he is elected said A. w, Fox in a letter to The Empire prais- ing the Democratic candidate for Territorial Representative from the First Division.
 Outside of the fact that practi- cally everybody in the city will try to be at the Firemen's Ball at the Arctic Brotherhood Hall, those who do will be surprised in the tasty decorations, said The Empire, as over 20 of the boys had been work ing all day in putting on the final touches.
 Lloyd Winter, of Winter and Pond, left on the Admiral Evans for an extended vacation in the south. 's '. James L. Freeburn, superintend- ent of the Chichagoff mine, was at the Gastineau.
 Joe Meherin returned from the southern end of the Division and was at the Gastineau S.t- s':A
 c. J. Hurley, well-known banker of Fairbanks was staying in Ju- neau for several days on private business.
 Harlan Thomas, architect for the Juneau school building, arrived in Juneau and was to remain here until bids were opened for the build ing.
 A Albert Th:Dodeau returned from an extended vacation in the south
 Weather: Highest, 46; lowest, 34; rain.
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The rumor being circulat- ed that "Garnick's are go- ing out. of business" is false and unfounded. We have served our customers efficiently for t h irt e e n years and expect to dc b u S in S s at the "OLD STAND for thirteen years more.
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VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN ALASKA

Vocational education, education along prac- tical lines which will help the student young or old in the work he is engaged in proposes to under take is compara lively new development in Alaska. That it is meeting with an excellent reception is revealed in perusa of the records of the Vocational Education Department.
 The George -Ellzey Act of Congress, passed in 1884 appropriated the sum of S15,oo0 year as an aid to vocational education in the Territory. The Legislature of 1885 enacted appropriation bill of an equal amount. The work began July l, 1885. During the first year vocational classes estab-
 shed in four day schools and extension classes for men were in operation in nine communities with an enrolment of 312, and extension classes for women with an even greater enrolment.
 This present year finds large increase in voca- tiohal courses in day schools with three in agriculture three in trade and industrial education and eight homemaking courses Extension classes in all three subjects have been or are now in operation in sixteen towns with total of 39 classes. Without exception these classes have been popular and the instruction offered has supplied Information and training of practical value to those who have profted by attending the records show
 In several communities instruction in certain def mite vocational training has been requested particu larly diesel engines The Vocational Department has been unable to meet this demand because of the inn possibility of finding competent local instructor
 The costs have been considerably less than the amount of Federal and Territorial appropriation The U S. funds are available only to the extent they are expended the balance reverting to the U S. Treasury
 Vocational Education, long popular in the States, has just begun in Alaska. It is filling need in our educational system.
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NOTICE TO CAR OWNERS.

When you buy or sell an automo- pile remember transaction must be registered with City Clerk. Also as- certain of taxes thereon have been paid, as car is subject to attachment for delinquent payments, regard less of ownership
 A. w. HENNING,
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LOOK onld LEARN
 @fs fHtfa t~' aJ A2ssis- .siS By A.lC. Gordon es
1.lrtJL .,ItInl. '

 l. What is the average height of men and women in the U. S.2 2. What is the price of radium? B. How does the area of Texas compare to that of Germany?s 4. Who invented the sewing ma / chine? ..tt 5. What tree sends it's branches down to the ground, thus form ing new trunks? a.,.s
 ANSWERS 3. l. Men, feet, inches women, 5 feet, inches. tl 2. About $70,000 a gram. Do 3. Texas, 265,896 square miles; Germanuy, 182,27i square miles. gt. 4. Elias Howe.
 5. The banyan, a tree of India.
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Black pepper is native of south western India.
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Now that Hitler has pretty friend" are W due for another royal romance?
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One way to get the folks to shovel off their sidewalks it appears, is to move the snow from the street onto the sidewalk with the snowplow.
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Lives there a with soul so dead who never to his city has said: T want to be a catcher
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THE FRIENDLY STORE

Grocer-"This pound of meat you sold me is three ounces short"
 Butcher-'Wen, mislaid the pound weight, so l had to weigh it by the pound of butter l got from you yesterday"
 o-O-O Mike-"See that notice there, Tourist trips over mOuntain'?' Pat-"All l can say is that he should have looked where he was going"
 O-O-O
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WORSE AND WORSE

Wife tat dance) -"This is the twelfth time I've seen you come from the refreshment bar"
 Husband-"Oh, that's all right. I tell everybody I'm getting something for you"
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It will be just too bad if prosperity has to sit down.-Toledo Blade. feste
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Asif,.ssaid the young man with enthusiasm, 'I certainly enjoyed your lecture last night" &
 q am glad to hear that" said the lecturer. But cant re member seeing you there"
 'No, I wasn't -there," admitted the youth. But I bought tickets fer my girls parents, and they both went"
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H "A P P - --B l R I H D AY

The Empire ertends congrattla- lions and best i3ishes todcy, their birthday anniUersary, to the follow- ing:
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Mother "Why is baby cry ing?'
 BObby-"He's dug hole in the garden and he wants me to bring it in"
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A. w. HENNING,
 Y City Clerk.
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Dad, what is a diplOmat?" ,s
 A diplomat, my boy, is a hus- band who can convince his wife she wants a washing machine when she thinks she wants new car.'
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CUTE

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The Washington times., 1937-11-05
Fire Auxiliary
Marks Birthday

The tenth birthday anniver-
sary of the Ladies' Auxiliary Of
the District Fire Department will
be celebrated tonight in Joppa
Hall, 1909 Ninth st. N. w.
More than 200 members and
guests are expected to attend an
interesting program which has
been arranged. The hall is being
decorated with palms and flow
ers. There viii be a 25-pound
birthday cake
FLORA KEEFER TO SING
The progrs..n viii begin at 8:15
o'clock, and the dancing at 9
o'clock. Flora Magill Keefer,
well-known soprano, viii sing.
Mrs. Harmon Chapman, a pas
president, is in charge of ar
rangements for the party. Mrs.
John VirnStein, also a past presi-
dent, will be mistress of cere-
monies.
Mrs. Thomas Baber, president,
will receive a bouquet of yellow
chrysanthemums on behalf Of
the auxiliary, the presentation
to be made by Mrs. Ernest Will
liam Howard, junior past presi-
dent.
Headed by Mrs. Baber, the
past presidents will form the
reception committee. Other past
presidents are Mrs. Anthony
Mayhew, who was the auxiliary'S
first president; Mrs. Helen
Schultz, Mrs. Charles Weitzel,
Mrs. Robert Hayes, Mrs. Joseph
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TOdGy's Club Program

Ladies Auxiliary of the Dis
trict Fire Department-An-
nual birthday party, 8 p. m,
Joppa Hall, 1909 Ninth st.
N. w.
Women's Guild of Sibley
Memorial Hospital-Hospital
night, 8 p. m, Rust Hall.
Board of the Woman's
Clinic-Annual card party, 2
o. M, 1925 Massachusetts,
Ave. N. w.
District of CO lumbia
Branch, League of American
Pen Women-Poetry group
meeting, 8 p. m, studio in
Grafton Hotel.
Y. w. C. A.-Girl Reserve In
terhigh School Club, supper, 8
.. M, "Y" headquarters, Sev-
enteenth and K Strets North
west.
Women's City Club-Class
in public speaking and per-
sonality development, S p. m,
1876 jackson Pl. N. w.
Washington Branch, Amer
ican Association Of Univer-
sity Women-Bridge section,
7:3O o. M, 1884 I st. N. w.
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Hayes, Mrs. Joseph Davidson
and Mrs. Chester Moffitt.
GUESTS INVITED
Guests invited include Mrs.
Lloyd w. Biddle, president Of
the District Federation OF
Women's Clubs, with which the
auxiliary Is affiliated; Mrs. Har-
vey w. Wiley, president Of the
Women's City Club; Miss Mat
tie Gibson, superintendent Of
Children's Hospital; Charles E.
Schrom, chief engineer of the
District Fire Department, and
Mrs. Schrom; the Fire Marshal
and Mrs. Calvin c. LAUDER, the
the administrative chief engi.
neer, Edward Pierce, and Mrs.
Pierce.
The women'S auxiliaries Of
nearby Maryland and Virginia
fire departments have also been
invited.
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CHARTER MEMBER
ATTENDS

Mrs. Emma Triepel, one Of
the three living charter mem
hers out Of the original II, came
to the luncheon wearing a
black crepe dress, decorated
with rhinestone clips. CMrS.
Triepel, who is in her seventy
first year, went on a sightsee-
ing motor tour of the country
al! the way to the West Coast,
accompanied by her son, last
year as a gift for her SEVENTEEN
birthday
Others at the meeting: Mrs.
John Fowler, wearing a brown
wool coat suit. trimmed in
mink, with a matching hat.
Mrs. Minnie Frost RandS came
wearing a chic blue-grey sport
suit and wearing a black tat
feta turban, with veil. She had
Oh a silver fox fur piece and a
white lace blouse. Incidentally,
Mrs RandS is chairman of the
drama section Of the D. c. Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, and
at present is buSily engaged
writing q biblical play which
she will produce before the
Federation during the Easter
season.
Pledges of Beta Alpha Chap
ter, of Phi Mu Sorority, George
Washington University, made
their debut last night at a dance
in the Raleigh Hotel given by
the chapter.
Phi Mu has the distinction Of
being the second oldest sorority
in the United States. It was
founded in 1852 at WeSlyn Col
lege, Macon, Ga.
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U.D.C. Celebrates
Historical Evening
By MARY PADGETT

Coorful ceremonies and appropriate program marked
last nights celebration by the District Of Columbia Division
United Daughters of the Conederacy of their annual his
torcal Evening held at Confederate Memorial Hail. 1877
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Pen Women
Review Books

Members of the District of Co
lumbia League of American Pen
Women were told about why
people write books yesterday by
well.known writer's at the first
Of a series Of monthly book.
review luncheons planned by the
league and held in the club
studio in the Grafton Hotel.
These luncheons, which are
revival of similar gatherings con-
Quoted some 20 years, will be de-
voted to the study Of current
literature. The need for some
such gathering in the club be-
came so apparent that Mrs.
Theodore Tiller used her efforts
to this end, with the first lunch.
con having a nice attendance.
NOVELIST SPEAKS
Mrs. Tiller presided and intro
duced the guest Speakers-Miss
Bett Hooper, editor Of the book
page of the Washington Post;
Mrs. Katherine Dunlap, whose
latest novel. Lady Be Good" is
about to come off the press, and
Mrs. Charles Martin. author Of
''The Lingering Faun."
Mrs. Tiller was dressed in o
black wool-crepe gown, with a
white organdie collar, and velvet
hat.
Mrs. Phyllis Fergus Hoyt, of
Chicago, national president of
the League of American Pen
Women, was among the lunch.
con group. She wore a black
wool dress, with a long emerald
necklace, and plumed bla *
hat.
Miss Marguerite Merigold,
president of the District League,
also attended, wearing a gorge
Gus dress of black satin and
crepe and a stunning matching
veiled hat.
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Hayes, Mrs. Joseph Davidson
and Mrs. Chester Moffitt.
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gracefully and gallantly!
Why should any woman dread
her fortieth birthday, after all?
Forty is the golden age Of
woman. The age when she can
stop struggling to be what every
body expects her to be, and be
just what God intended her to
be-herself!
OF course, a modern woman is
never over "thirty-nine" e"-until
she is fifty. And in these days
of personality bobs" any
woman who doesn't succeed in
looking at least ten years her
own junior is doing herself a
great injustice.
But, like Indian summer. the
"forties" have a lure all their
own! Spring and youth are
beautiful and exciting-but In
dian summer and the golden
forties are mellow and fruitful
and far more restful.
In Indian summer you can
stop striving and struggling and
yearning for things. You can
take off your mental "two-way-
stretch" and slip Into the be-
coming soft, silk dressing gown
of maturity, with a welcome
sigh of relief. You can relax
and lean back and philosophize!
You can stop doing all the
things that fretted and annoyed
you and bored you-and begin
doing all the things that you've
always wanted to do, and never
had the time to do. Like "Wal-
lie," you can set the styles, in
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their youth that you, and you,
might live
T. B. The Broken.
Have YOU no responsibility
for their pain? No answer?
Yes, 1 know. Times are so
hard. You've sickness Of your
own. But think! But listen!
Turn off the radio-hear that
cough.
Suppose 1t were YOUR baby,
fumbling at that patch of sun.
shine.
YOUR wife. YOUR husband
left alone to die?
WOULD YOU STILL say
II CAN'T AFFORD TO
HELP?
Or would you leap. and run
and thank God for the
chance?
I think I know.
THEN DO 1T NOW!
And fortunately, there's a way
you can do it-quickly, conven-
iently, effectively. For there is a
great army in this country fight
ing T. B. And all you have to
do to join that army is to buy
and then use-the Christmas
seals distributed every year by
the National tuberculosis Asso-
citation and its more than 1000
affiliated State. county and city
organizations.
In helping that devoted army
of workers check the spread of
T. B., you are helping to protect
your own home. The association
examines, makes X-ray tests,
hunts out cases in early stages,
arranges for treatment. 1t car.
ries on educational work, aiming
at prevention.
Join that great army. Buy
its seals. Use them on your
Christmas cards and packages
and throughout the holiday sea-
son, spreading its message.
AND DO IT NOW!
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Ten years of her life. =. all
of them spent within that one,
poor bed. Spent alone. Dads
dead. mother must work. And
so she lies there watching the
shadows thin, then darken in a
rising tide, against the shabby
wall then part, for one shin
ing moment, before that ray of
light which even basement win
dows cannot bar.
That moment! She is so glad
when it comes. A moment be-
fore her face has been a small
pale blur against the pillows
gray. her hands like wasted
claws against the ragged quilt.
But with that sunset flash, she
lifts those little hands. .
clutches the streaming gold
:. and laughs! Then turns and
coughs
And lies, eyes shut, against a
widening pool Of red.
Ten years. T. B. One flash Of
basement sunshine. . then a
laugh that ends in blood.
How far it seems from your
own baby's life. how different
from your own sweet, sunny
home.
Your tiny girl-thank God,
she'll never come to this! Your
chuckling, Sunburned tyke-
HOW DO YOU KNOW?
This isn't just one tragic,
heart-break tale.
Even as you read. stretch
ing out in the comfort of your
easy chair healthy body at
peace. healthy lungs breathing
the mingled spice and sweetness
of your holiday home
Even so, hundreds, thousands,
millions are lying. trapped
by the cruelest scourge on earth.
Helpless old mothers, with be-
wildered eyes
Broken old fathers, who gave
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stead Of frantically following
them. Best of all, you can stop
pretending, posing and bluffing!
You can stop running after ex-
citement and painting for popu-
larity or thrills. You no longer
have to work at being brilliant
or irresistible, and you can just
be sweet and charming and
sympathetic-and call it a day!
When you are forty, men will
begin to speak Of you as THAT
charming woman" instead of
"That swell Jane" - and you
much prefer the comradeship of
an interesting man" to the dis
turbing infatuation of a heart
breaker, with its inevitable head
ache.
Oh, yes, that is a wonderful
age when you begin to under
stand yourself, stop doubling
yourself. worrying about your
self, and talking about yourself.
It is a beautiful age when the
heart still beats high and the
hopes ripen-but the head is
cool and the pulse steady. When
you stop suffering" and begin
to enjoy-and to live!
Be forty-and like it! Take
your forties on the chin!