It surely is true that no family living room is spacious enough for the continuous use of three generations; but it is still more true that with new interests all around the circle of family membership a more varied family life can be managed without friction or loss of privacy for any member if only there is the right attitude of mind.

To-day the ideal of the Heaven-father fastens itself as easily to the child's affection for grandpa as on his dependence upon his father.

To-day the ideal of mother-love, never lessened even by wrong-doing of the child, is as securely fibred upon the picture of grandma, ever ready to heal and comfort, as upon that of the mother, whose daily ministrations make the child comfortable.
=The Special Gifts of the Old to the Home and the World.=--In some ways it is surely more easy to believe in goodness at the heart of things because some aged man or woman, closely related by blood and breeding, has been a living example of what must be revered.

Moreover, to the family, as to the world-at-large, old age brings a special gift--if that old age is what it may be.

Each period of life has its own gift to make.