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allowed to use their legs hut not their arms, or whose legs are

daily carefully exercised that after a while their arms may he put

to high use. We do this in spite of the protest of the best educators, Locke and Pestalozzi. We are fortunate in the meantime if their unused members do not weaken and disappear. They do

sometimes. There are a few girls who, by the time they are "educated," forget their old childish desires to help the world and to

play with poor little girls "who haven't playthings." Parents are

often inconsistent: they deliberately expose their daughters to

knowledge of the distress in the world; they send them to hear

missionary addresses on famines in India and China; they accompany them to lectures on the suffering in Siberia; they agitate together over the forgotten region of East London. In addition to

this, from babyhood the altruistic tendencies of these daughters

are persistently cultivated. They are taught to he self-forgetting

and self-sacrificing, to consider the good of the whole before the

good of the ego. But when all this information and culture show

results, when the daughter comes back from college and begins to

recognize her social claim to the "submerged tenth," and to

evince a disposition to fulfill it, the family claim is strenuously

asserted; she is told that she is unjustified, ill-advised in her efforts. If she persists, the family too often are injured and unhappy

unless the efforts are called missionary and the religious zeal of

the family carry them over their sense of abuse. When this zeal

does not exist, the result is perplexing. It is a curious violation of

what we would fain believe a fundamental law —that the final

return of the deed is upon the head of the doer. The deed is that

of exclusiveness and caution, hut the return, instead of falling

upon the head of the exclusive and cautious, falls upon a young

head full of generous and unselfish plans. The girl loses something

vital out of her life to which she is entitled. She is restricted and

unhappy; her elders, meanwhile, are unconscious of the situation

and we have all the elements of a tragedy.

We have in America a fast-growing number of cultivated young

people who have no recognized outlet for their active faculties.

They hear constantly of the great social maladjustment, hut no

way is provided for them to change it, and their uselessness hangs

about them heavily. Huxley declares that the sense of uselessness

is the severest shock which the human system can sustain, and

that if persistently sustained, it results in atrophy of function.

These young people have had advantages of college, of European