152 Ellen Key the lighter kinds, and this seldom and spar- ingly. Thus, the image of Ellen Key as an apostle of self-indulgence is as unlike her as possible. On the contrary, her many friends see in her a remarkably controlled person, and in regard to all the pleasures of life extremely abstemious. Ellen Key has been wont to say that nothing is better for a rich man's children than to be brought up as poor, for wealth may disappear, as happened in her own case, but hardihood, wherewith to meet all vicis- situdes in life, remains. In the different little homes she has had in Stockholm, 1884, 16 Villa Street, from the autumn of 1892, 15 Valhalla Road, and from the autumn of 1895, 49 Valhalla Road she had arranged things very pleasantly. Though having to walk up and down four flights of stairs many times a day, yet when she had reached her haven and closed the door, she felt happy and at peace and enjoyed concen- trating on her work surrounded by her own familiar things. In her home, which consisted principally of a large living and work room combined, one learned to know her and what she means, perhaps better than by her books. "Beauty for All" is, for instance, not easy to comprehend, but one who visited Ellen Key