21

21, by Dr. Frank Crane, is an article that originally appeared in the American Magazine and was revised by the author. The contents list names, among others, If I were Twenty-One I would train my mind and If I were Twenty-One I would get married. A foreword from the editor of the American Magazine says that editorials by Frank Crane are syndicated in a chain of thirty-eight newspapers, which reach many millions of readers.

The prelude says its writer has climbed the Hill of Life and is past the summit, and that perhaps it may help those just venturing the first incline to know what the writer thinks he would do if he had it to do over. The writer says any man of twenty-one has a better chance for happiness, moral stature, and earthly success, if married than if unmarried. The writer says success is of two kinds, outward and inward, or apparent and real, and that outward success may depend somewhat upon what is in you, but depends more upon luck.