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INDIVIDUALITY IN HOME.
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music, drawing, dancing, sleeping, dressing, eating, leave literally no time for the girl's mending or the boy's carpentering jobs about the house. The dining-table is almost the only place where meets a modern family bent on modern education. The theatre, the winter dance, and the summer hotel, rather than the home, furnish recreation and rest, and cause the little sympathy that too often exists between children and their parents, who are spoken of as old or nervous. We calmly allow this result to be reached, feeling that the child's individuality has demanded it; that it is right to allow him to be snobbish, snubbish, and patronizing to commonplace friends and parents; to be cross, nervous, dyspeptic, because he must have time for study. It is far better to maintain him a year longer in school, as an offset to the minutes consumed in doing family errands, than to allow him to evade them. Notwithstanding, the child is right in feeling that his school is of the utmost importance,

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