n dwelling amid this ever-rising tide.
As Algernon in Patience regards himself as a trustee for beauty, to preserve it, show it, and make the most of it, so these exuberant children are trustees for youth.
It is amusing to notice that sometimes, indeed, they, like Algernon, grow weary of their trust, and even enjoy assuming the attitudes of old age a little while.
No white-haired man is so old-or would be, if he could help it — as many a college bard at twenty who writes for himself, as Dr. Holmes wrote when little more than that age:
Alas! the morning dew is gone- Gone ere the full of day.
How delicious it is to boast of age when one is young, and of misery when one is happy!
It is like the delight of a fresh young girl at wearing hair-powder and attempting to look old; the more venerable the fashion, the more radiant becomes her blooming youth; but let her hair really grow gray for a day, and see how she likes it!
Yet hence with the cruel suggestion!
Why should we know
303.
Griswold, R. W., 289.
Gymnastics, elevation of, 64.
H.
Hair, the uses of, 2.
Hale, E. E., 206.
Hale, H. E., his theory of language.
181.
Hale, Lucretia, 40.
Harem, Shadow of the, 12.
Harland, Marion, 13.
Harte, Bret, 132, 153, 224.
Harvard University, 88, 275, 287.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, quoted, 105.
Hayley, William, 113.
Hayne, P. H., quoted, 223.
Hemans, F. D., 18, 19.
hills, A return to the, 301.
Histoire Litteraire des Femmes Francaises, 252.
Holmes, Dr. O. W., quoted, 51.
Also 96, 153, 203.
home, American love of, 281.
home, the Creator of the, 28.
Homer, 8, 203.
Homes, occasional permanence of, in America, 283.
Hood, Thomas, 19.
Horse-chestnuts, the value of, 295.
house of Cards, A, 138.
House of Lords, English, decline of, 136.
Household decoration, stages of, 161.
household decorators, women as, 161.
House-keeping in America, 72, 116; in England, 73.
Howells, W. 1)., quoted, 40, 52, 64, 194.
Also 102,