156 Ellen Key charity, the value of which she doubts, but many little acts point to her strong social feeling, acts which "charitable" folk would do well to imitate. For instance, she has never sent New Year cards since she heard of a postman who was prostrated one New Year's day! Neither has she, since her first visits to a circus, a horse-race, vaudeville, and comic opera when she formed her own opinion of them, ever again sought like amusements, finding them valueless. Many similar traits could be related of her. And with all this she possesses the calmest courage to follow her own convictions and to brave all storms when driven into them by her own inner necessity. It is worthy of mention that she was found among the speakers^ at Ladugards- gardet,^ one first of May, to the horror of all her friends, except such as were socialists. Ellen Key is never led by anything but her own innermost intuition, and, for her, defiance for its own sake is as foreign as the love of battle for the sake of battle. And when, in 1903, she left the community where she had withstood so many onslaughts, it was neither faint-heartedness nor discouragement which ' In behalf of a normal workday for women. * A large open field on the outskirts of Stockholm.