i8 Ellen Key point, was tenanted by Captain Mans Hultin, his wife and children. The youngest daughter, Lisa, was bom the same year as Ellen, and the two girls have been friends from infancy. At Bjorno, Ellen learned to reverence the good old things and customs in an aristocratic and patriarchal home, a reverence which is often expressed in her writings. These in- fluences of olden times were strengthened at Kallemas. The lasting impressions Ellen Key received from this home are countless. She has written of Fru Hultin with grateful ap- preciation. The rare old-fashioned atmos- phere has never faded from Ellen's memory and, especially the fairy-tales and harpsichord music of Fru Hultin, did much to nourish the child's imagination. The old couple lived to celebrate their diamond wedding, dying in 1883, the same year that the Key family left Sundsholm. Ellen Key ends her biographical sketch of Fru Hultin with these words: "In this existence of oiu-s, where our life experiences are for the most part made up of yearnings and dis- appointments, it is only for those who have never disappointed our trust that we always yearn. These personalities, who stand out in unsullied purity against the golden back-