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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
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