i66 Ellen Key life's sea has given us a strand).' And, over the door, leading out to the front, glows in red letters Goethe's reversal of the Roman death motto Memento vivere, (Remember to live). Everything at Strand, from the greatest to the smallest, speaks of love,—thinking, acting, watchful love. All that nature has given has been taken advantage of in the most careful and loving way, has been preserved and per- fected; all that has been made with human hands shows the inspiration of a never-failing sense of fitness. For this reason, it is pure edification to wander around, within, and with- out Ellen Key's home. One is everywhere struck by the many little marvels of ingenuity, and touched by the tender devotion which has not allowed a plant to be uprooted, nor a twig cut off, without due consideration. The fur- nishing of the house has been carefully planned in every detail, and gives many proofs of great ingenuity. One would like to have whole classes of housewives and young girls sent there, to be awakened to the high vocation of home-making. They would undoubtedly return better people, particularly if Ellen her- self had preached to them the gospel of the home. In the home of her later years is found » From Runeberg's Vdrt land.