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organization, may add to her piety at the expense of her blood ; that she may work hex brain over mathematics, botany, chemistry, German, and the like, with equal and sustained force on every day of the month, and go safely divert blood from the reproductive apparatus to the head ; in short, that she, like her brother, develops health and strength, blood and nerve, intellect and life, by a regular, uninterrupted, and sustained course of work. All this is not justified, either by experience or physiology. The gardener may plant, if he choose, the lily and the rose, the oak and the vine, within the same enclosure ; let the same soil nourish them, the same air visit them, and the same sunshine warm and cheer them ; still, he trains each of them with a separate art, warding from each its peculiar dangers, developing within each its peculiar powers, and teaching each to put forth to the utmost its divine and peculiar gifts of strength and beauty. Girls lose health, strength, blood, and nerve, by a regimen that ignores the periodical tides and reproductive appa-