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SEX IN EDUCATION.
and colors the faces of ladies and peasant girls, reminding one of the canvas of Rubens and Murillo; and am-always equally surprised on my return, by crowds of pale, bloodless female faces, that suggest consumption, scrofula, anemia, and neuralgia. To a large extent, our present system of educating girls is the cause of this palor and weakness. How our schools, through their methods of education, contribute to this unfortunate result, and how our colleges that have undertaken to educate girls like boys, that is, in the same way, have succeeded in intensifying the evils of the schools, will be pointed out in another place. .
It has just been said that the educational methods of our schools and colleges for girls are, to a large extent, the cause of “ the thousand ills ” that beset American women. Let it be remembered that this is not asserting that such methods of education are the sole cause of female weaknesses, but only that they are one cause, and one of the most important causes of it. An immense loss of