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the daily meals. She may study art, but must not go to a life school. Education has been bestowed, but, when she wishes to use it in spheres apart from the home, her parents are unwilling. Affection is the restraining power by which the actions, charities, and occupations of the adult child are limited. The father would be none the less venerated if no direct appeal was made to him for each necessity of life; nor would the desire for self-support torment so many if each daughter had a certain part of the family income. Then her gifts, her charities, her personal expenses, and her self-denials, would be measured one against the other, and each act would be her own.

Yet it is from affection, from the pride of support, from the joy of giving, from the pleasure in feeling, that the father, as parent and householder, has created his home, that he misses, unconsciously, the balance of proportion between his own individuality and that

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