the better for it every day." How many a young girl has had her
whole horizon extended by the changed ideals she gained in college!
Yet this is largely because the associations and studies there
are likely to give her permanent interests--the fifth and perhaps
the greatest gift of college life of which I shall speak.

The old fairy story which charmed us in childhood ended with--"And
they were married and lived happy ever after." It conducted to
the altar, having brought the happy pair through innumerable
difficulties, and left us with the contented sense that all the
mistakes and problems would now vanish and life be one long day
of unclouded bliss. I have seen devoted and intelligent mothers
arrange their young daughters' education and companionships
precisely on this basis. They planned as if these pretty and
charming girls were going to live only twenty or twenty-five years
at the utmost, and had consequently no need of the wealthy interests
that should round out the full-grown woman's stature, making her
younger in feeling at forty than at twenty, and more lovely and
admired at eighty than at either.

Emerson in writing of beauty declares that "the secret of ugliness
consists not in irregular outline, but in being uninteresting. We
love any forms, however ugly, from which great qualities shine.
If command, eloquence, art, or invention exists in the most
deformed person, all the accidents that usually displease, please,
and raise esteem and wonder higher. Beauty without grace is the
head without the body. Beauty without expression tires." Of
course such considerations can hardly come with full force to the
young girl herself, who feels aged at eighteen, and imagines that
the troubles and problems of life and thought are hers already.