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176 The Century of the Child
her book and to bring her to a tea-party
by giving her unnecessary occupations; very
easy by a scornful word to repress some pow-
erful emotion. A thousand similar things oc-
cur every day in good families through the
whole world. But whenever we hear of young
people speaking of their intellectual homeless-
ness and sadness, we begin to understand why
father and mother remain behind in homes,
from which the daughters have hastened to
depart; why children take their cares, joys,
and thoughts to strangers ; why, in a word, the
old and the young generation are as mutually
dependent as the roots and flowers of plants,
so often separate with mutual repulsion.
This is as true of highly cultivated fathers
and mothers as of simple bourgeois or peasant
parents. Perhaps, indeed, it may be truer of
the first class ; the latter torment their children
in a naive way, while the former are infinitely
wise and methodical in their stupidity. Rarely
is a mother of the upper class one of those
artists of home life who through the blitheness,
the goodness, and joyousness of her character,
makes the rhythm of everyday life a dance, and
holidays into festivals. Such artists are often
simple women who have passed no examina-
tions, founded no clubs, and written no books.
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