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SEX IN EDUCATION.
mind. This has not yet evolved the idea of the identical education of the sexes. It appears that in Germany, schools, studies, parties, walks, rides, dances, and the like, are not allowed to displace or derange the demands of Nature. The female organization is respected. The third custom is, that German school-girls are not invited to parties at all. “ All this comes after the school,” says Dr. Hagen. The brain is not worked by day in the labor of study, and tried by night with the excitement of the hall. Pleasant recreation for children of both sexes, and abundance of it, is provided for them, all over Germany, — is regarded as necessity for them,—is made a part of their daily life; but then it is open-air, oxygen-surrounding, blood-making, health-giving, innocent recreation ; not gas, furnaces, low necks, spinal trails, the civilized representatives of caudal appendages, and late hours.
Desirous of obtaining, if possible, a more exact notion than even a physician could give of the German, traditional method of