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INDIVIDUALITY IN HOME.
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said that grown-up families cannot live together, because of the want of this recognition of each other's individuality. The home which unites many varying interests, in which each feels that his or her peculiar hobby meets will consideration and fairness, is the home that is richest in intellectual wealth and affection, — the home which broadens others, into which it is a liberal education to enter, — the home that makes coöperation possible.

But parents do not show that unbiassed judgment of their children's divergence from them which they manifest in regard to strangers. The adult son or daughter feels that his or her measure of difference is a source of poignant regret. That there must be regret is natural, but that the adult child should always be uncomfortable, under the added force of keen bitterness in his father's feeling, hampers his own harmonious growth; he grows, but with a sense of doing injury to those he loves best.

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