he sees and hears as being less than proper decorum, less than a high standard of intelligence, less than refined cultivation, and less than agencies that contribute to the graces of life.  He marvels that we have not yet attained the conception that partaking of food amounts to a gracious and delightful ceremony rather than a gastronomic orgy.  His surprise is not limited to the people who administer these establishments, but extends to the people who patronize them.  He marvels that the patrons do not seek out places where there is quiet, and serenity, and pleasing decorum.  He returns to his own land wondering if the noisy restaurant is typical of American civilization.  He may not know that the study of domestic science in our schools has not had time to attain its full fruition in the way of inculcating a lofty conception of life in the dining room.

=Thrift as patriotism.=—­Another important phase of patriotism is thrift; and here, again, we have come short of realizing our possibilities.  There are far too many people who have failed to lay in store against times of emergency, far too many who care only for to-day with slight regard for to-morrow.  Moreover, there are far too many who, despite sound bodies, are dependents, contributing nothing to the resources of society, but constantly preying upon those resources.  There are in our country not fewer than one hundred thousand tramps, and by some the number has been estimated at a half-million.  If this vast army of dependents could be transferred to the ranks of producers, tilling our fields, harvesting our crops, constructing our highways of travel, redeeming our waste places, and beautifying our streams, life would be far more agreeable both for them and for the rest of our people.  They would become self-supporting and so would win self-respect; they would subtract their number from the number of those who live at public expense; and they would make contributions to the general store.  They would thus relieve society of the incubus of their dependence, and largely increase the number of our people who are self-supporting.

=Some contrasts.=—­We are making some progress in the line of thrift through our school savings and postal savings, but we have not yet attained to a national conception of thrift as an element of patriotism.  This is one of the large yet inspiring privileges of the vitalized school.  Thrift is so intimately identified with life that they naturally combine in our thinking, and we have only to reach the conception that our mode of life is the measure of our patriotism in order to realize that thrift and patriotism are in large measure identical.  The industrious, frugal, thrifty man is patriotic; the unthrifty, lazy, shiftless man is unpatriotic.  The one ennobles and honors his country; the other dishonors and degrades his country.