2 Building a.Good Life 



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with a thought of placing it on me market. Cheap 

 workmanship, weak and faulty joinings, and the like, 

 will be concealed by some thin covering meant to 

 last until a profitable sale has been made and some 

 innocent purchaser caught with a mere shell of a 

 house in his possession. Occasionally, however, 

 there is found a man whose plans conform to such 

 ideals as those first named. 



WHAT is A GOOD LIFE? 



As with the construction of a house, so it is in 

 some measure with the building of a character. 

 Some lives apparently are constructed to look at; 

 that is, with the thought that outer adornment 

 and a mere appearance of worth and beauty con- 

 stitute the essential qualities. Other lives are, in a 

 sense, made to sell. Not infrequently parents are 

 found developing their boys and girls as if the chief 

 purpose were to place them somewhere or other in 

 the best possible money market. A life is worth 

 only as much as it will bring in dollars and cents, is 

 apparently the predominating thought of such per- 

 sons. And then, occasionally, a life is built to live 

 in; that is, with the idea that intrinsic worth con- 

 stitutes the essential nature of the ideal character. 



But what is a good life ? And why is not this 

 precisely the question for all parents to ask them- 

 selves at the time they begin the development of the 

 lives of their own boys and girls? Assuming a 



