150 Ellen Key made so many people happy, nor perhaps have looked forward in old age to an independ- ence indispensable for her. And her "art of living" has always been to choose and strive for the values in life most essential to herself. Ellen Key has during middle age gained a health and strength which her delicate con- stitution in youth did not promise. The wholesome regular life which she has led has done much to produce this happy result. She has had simple habits in food and drink, and has led a healthy out-of-door Hfe, although athletics, as practised in the cities, have never attracted her. She is still a good walker and swimmer, and, however precious time may have been to her, she has abstained from night work. Strictly dutiful in her work, her habit has been to retire early, and rise early, and, immediately after her bath, to take a long tramp in the woods. One of her nearest friends—^who has told me much of what I am here relating of Ellen Key's characteristics used sometimes to call for her on these walks. One morning she said, as she entered her room : "Have you time to go out to-day? you have your lecture on the 'Century of the Child' this evening." Ellen Key answered calmly, "Why, certainly, that lecture I have been