home loses all the means by which formerly it moulded the
child's soul life and ennobled family life. The school, not
father and mother, teaches children to play, the school gives
them manual training, the school teaches them to sing, to look
at pictures, to read aloud, to wander about out of doors;
schools, clubs, sport and other pleasures accustom youth in the
cities more and more to outside life, and a daily recreation
that kills the true feeling for holiday. Young people, often,
have no other impression of home than that it is a place where
they meet society which bores them.

Parents surrender their children to schools in those years in
which they should influence their minds. When the school gives
them back they do not know how to make a fresh start with the
children, for they themselves have ceased to be young.

But getting old is no necessity; it is only a bad habit. It is
very interesting to observe a face that is getting old. What
time makes out of a face shows better than anything else what
the man has made out of time. Most men in the early period of
middle age are neither intellectually fat nor lean, they are
hardened or dried up. Naturally young people look upon them
with unsympathetic eyes, for they feel that there is such a
thing as eternal youth, which a soul can win as a prize for its
whole work of inner development. But they look in vain for this
second eternal youth in their elders, filled with worldly
nothingnesses and things of temporary importance.

With a sigh they exclude the "old people" from their future
plans and they go out in the world in order to choose their