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with which family-life should interfere as little as possible, and parents must submit to personal losses in convenience and enjoyment because of the "schooling." The study gained, the adult child has a right to decide for himself on his future occupation, unhampered by aught but parental advice. How often it is said: "I should have been an engineer, lawyer, mechanic, if my father had not wished me to do otherwise." Far wiser that the young man should struggle longer in the pursuit for self-support than bear all through life the burden of wishing he had been something else, because there seemed need of immediate decision, either from pecuniary reasons or regard for his father's wishes.

That parent makes a fortunate discovery who early sees that, while it is her duty to train the child as a child, to admonish and punish, yet that, as the years go by, her duties as direct guide lessen, and life-experience becomes the greater teacher. It is often