BEACH MEDITATIONSAlmost any thing in life is an asset if you have enough of it! Seeing the Quintuplets in the last month has set me thinking along this line. Babies are a joy and delight, but their keenest admirers have never claimed that they were an economic advantage to their parents. Indeed with doctor's fees, nurses' fees—and incidentals, to have a baby is sometimes ruinous to the struggling young couple. Now consider the Quintuplets. Their parents have definitely departed from labour; they have a government allowance and money in the bank. One baby would have set them deeper into the mire of depression but the Five have made them independent for life. One baby is an expense; five babies a fortune! I have a friend here, who is a very sick looking man, and so thin, he would pass for