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pecting that they are enjoyable, will be constantly under an artificial restraint, his nature will be stunted in some way, and if he does taste of the forbidden joy he is extremely likely to go to excess and, his whole nature being out of proper balance, to become a ready candi- date for the hospital, the jail, or the asylum. It was Bluebeard's prohibition from opening a certain cham- ber that created the irresistible desire to look in, as we all learned when we read the Arabian Nights. As Dr. Zimmermann says, the desire to conceal serves only to attract attention. But that is not all. While stimulating desire and attracting attention to the object of desire, the en- forced abstinence from it also impairs the power of resistance to it. The stunted nature is thrown out of balance, and thus prepared for more ready moral decline and failure. Unbalanced, inharmonious devel- opment is the surest road to mental and moral in- capacity. The greatest specialists are those who build their specialties upon a foundation of general harmon- ious education. The specialist who knows nothing but his specialty as a rule amounts to little and preserves through life a distorted view of things, having never acquired a proper sense of proportion. It is axiomatic that to protect one from injurious influence by the weather one must be hardened to such influence. A hot-house plant or a hot-house child will

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