Show dilettantism at a good thing you can call afford the expenditure ot of a little time and strength given to dilettantism tant ism it if our girl has no decided talent lor for music wo we should not enforce the harsh decree of 0 entire exclusion ot of music from her education E every v e ry creature has need of the privilege ot of making a little melody egotism in ia petty talents talent Is indeed something to be treated with rigor children who exaggerate the value ot of their attainments must be taught the distinction between a vocation and an avocation the one exacting special ability and a lifes devotion while the other is a species ot of personal relaxation with which the world has nothing to do every one needs both a vocation as the means of 0 securing the material blessin blessings S ot of life an avocation into which the suggestion of profit does not enter sometimes the latter Is called a hobby but it does not express the tha same sense ot of an engagement so leisurely es as to be playful hobbles are often pursued with a fixity and fierceness which involves a formidable output ot of energy but about an accomplishment ment that fulfills its natural mission there Is a fairylike fairy like lightness it Is taken up add an d thrown down at will wiil womans comans home companion |