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SEX IN INDUSTRY.
The third of causative errors we have • stated to be —
Their employment in occupations which cannot he undertaken without injury, except by those confirmed in the possession of full strength and capacity.
The consideration of this error, while it embraces the more youthful class to which I have just referred, brings into the foreground those of more advanced years, who, though in part accomplishing the evolutions designed by nature, are as yet insecure in such attributes, and are hence liable to the added dangers incident to their advance. It is not to be hoped for, in this work-a-day world, that we are to be freed from all employments that will fail — with all the alleviations that may be devised—to be divorced from severe mental and bodily energy; neither is it expected, or desirable, that the larger proportion of the class whom we have in consideration — the girls and young women from eleven to twenty-one — should be exempted at once from some form of industrial occupation.