All's Swell That Ends Swell.

Fatherhood is one of the ordeals that have put man where he is— wherever he is. No man can really claim to be a man until he has experienced the contemptuous affection of a growing family. No man can be really great until he accepts the cold fact that his paternal authority—the only thing he really could claim as his own—is slowly slipping from him.

There are other ordeals such as house-hunting, dentist-dodging, bill-paying and connubial conciliation—all painful but useful—but of these later.

Ordeals, poor deals, and raw deals, they keep man from growing so contented that he has time to grow discontented.

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