She said to me in agitation: "Since my father's death I have been living with my mother, and her criticisms have grown day by day. We used to be happy, but now the situation is entirely different from before. Nothing I do pleases her, and sometimes she will not let me go out with my companions, while she bursts out shouting if I stay at home several days in a row, until I no longer know what to do — do I go out or not? She blames me whatever I do."

It happened that I had seen a motion picture presenting a story similar to that of this girl, twenty years of age and at a loss over her plight; and I

concluded that her feeling toward her mother had reached a state of helplessness. So I asked her, inquiring: Does your mother go to see motion pictures?

— "Yes, every week, and we go together."

Here there was room for me to suggest an idea to her. I asked her to take her mother to see the film I had spoken of, and to turn her attention to the reaction in the mother's soul upon watching this story, without drawing her notice to anything — so that she herself might understand what she was seeing, and change; and perhaps that would help to solve the problem.

A week passed before the girl spoke to me and told me that her mother had loved the film, and had said she could not believe how a mother could treat her daughter with such selfishness and cruelty!

Our observation of the mis-takes of others is keen, but rarely do we pay heed to our own. This happens at every moment, among the members of every family, in the various fields of life and in our relations with human beings differing in thought and in age. We criticize the conduct of others with all ease, but what a hard position it is when we confront ourselves.

A man boards the train and pushes angrily at the crowding people, hurling insults like molten lava, and he does not know that he is as responsible for the crowding as anyone else. And here is a lady who fumes because the shopkeeper did not give her more attention than his other customers, or did not give her the price she wanted, so she complains of him to the first person her eye falls upon.

And there is a young lady who is vexed and flares up because her fiancé is late for the appointment he set with her; she meets him with a scowl and a frown, spoiling the serenity of their time together, and perhaps that affects their relationship.

These are examples of mis-takes into which one falls without intent and without thought of the ill consequence — and we ourselves may be among these people. Now let us look at their right to behave in this way. It may be that the gentleman who made the commotion in the rail-way car had not slept the night before — either because his child filled the house with screaming, that is, if he is married, or because he spent the night in revelry and drink. He may be troubled by a material need, or by a wife's illness, or perhaps the cause is purely physical, so