THE MAN OF FIFTY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10, 12 September 1913, Page 4

THE MAN OF FIFTY.

It 'lias boon quite truly said that few men reach the age of fifty withoui pausing to reflect that they are passed—even if they have not passed—the Rubicon. Yet modern statistics show and modern medical men say that the modern man of fifty ought to be in his very prime. This is the opinion put forth in the columns of the "Tageblatt" by a symposium of medical men, business men, artists, and others, who have practically agreed that a man of fifty is no "older" than a man of forty, and in numerous instances is decidedly more useful. Professor Krause asserts that it is absurd to describe a man of fifty as even "growing old." Only in exceptional cases, due to special causes, is there revealed "decreased elasticity." Professor Krause recommends "sane sport" as the best 'insurance against "old age for a mar of fifty. Dr. Lippmann, anothei eminent specialist, declares that ;

man of fifty is of "highly superior intellectual' worthy" and on. account of his reliability, steadiness, experience, and rational living, possesses countless physical 'and moral advantages over a younger mail; Professor Arthur Kampf, president of tbe'Eoyal Academy," claims that great artists of all times have done their best work between theages of fifty And sixty 1 . ' DV. Leon Zeitlin,: Secretary of Ike Berlin Retail Trades''' Association/ blirm'cr: the "Americanisatiori" of Germah'com'mercial life for the increasing prejudice against men of fifty, which manifests itself in the "ruthless casting out of employees who have reached a certain age, and their supersession by younger men."