Instinct for Home Life 23 



social matters during this period of greatest strength 

 of her natural sex instinct. This thing cannot be 

 safely put off a few years with the thought that the 

 family will move to town and then the girl may have 

 her proper opportunities of training. After such 

 procrastination and neglect, it becomes too late ever 

 to correct the many faults of omission. 



10. There develops somewhat late in the lives of 

 young men and young women what might be called 

 the "homing" instinct, which amounts to nothing 

 other than a deep and pronounced prompting from 

 within to set definitely about the matter of getting 

 into a home of one's own and providing for and 

 building it up. This is different from the mere sex 

 instinct named above, although perhaps an out- 

 growth of it. It must be noted in passing that this 

 homing instinct, when at its strongest, furnishes the 

 proper occasion for instruction in respect to the home 

 and the home-building affairs. Happy indeed is the 

 young man or the young woman who, after a period 

 of such instruction, may have the opportunity of set- 

 tling down in a suitable dwelling place and there be- 

 ginning the establishment of the ideal family life. 



11. Unquestionably there dawns in the life of 

 normal young men and perhaps to a milder degree 

 in respect to young women a pronounced instinct 

 of a business and economic sort. This inner prompt- 

 ing is doubtless associated with the two last named. 

 It may be observed by any person who knows how 



