the girl would not think of asking
the exceptional favor, and the teacher would not like the responsibility
of giving it. These rules, of course, are not always thoroughly carried
out; but with the careful home discipline, the habits of obedience in
girls, and the frank intercourse and co-operation between parents and
teachers, it is safe to say a pretty strict observance of them is
secured.

In regard to the care taken of girls during the few years of their most
rapid and culminating development there are no rules uniformly observed,
except that riding, and very vigorous exercises, are prohibited on the
occasions when the system has less than its usual vigor. Beyond this,
the sixth rule given above covers the whole ground. Whatever especial
care is needed, is adapted to individual cases. If paleness, languor, or
unusual color is observed, it is at once traced to its cause, and that
cause is removed. The schools that expect to get the daughters from the
best families must show the best results in health. I quote the
following from the letter of a teacher whose large and varied experience
in teaching girls and women, and whose present educational position,
together with her especial knowledge of physiology, makes her, I think,
the best authority upon this point: "The result of my observation is,
that English mothers and schoolmistresses are very careful about the
health of girls between the ages of fourteen and eighteen--in fact,
rather disposed to be over-careful, and to listen to the fears of
medical men as to overwork. I have known girls who suffered from
unnatural conditions of their functional organization, but I can safely
say these have never been brought on by mental work; they have been
induced by change of diet, such as girls brought into town from the
country must always experience, or by coming into a sedentary life after
an active one, or from inattention to the action of the digestive
organs, but none from mental work. My own experience would lead me most
unhesitatingly to say that regular mental occupation, _well arranged_,
conduces wholly to the health of a girl in every way, and that girls who
have well-regulated mental work are far less liable to fall into
hysterical fancies than those who have not such occupation."

The following is from the letter of an English medical lady educated on
the Continent. "The exercise of the intellectual powers is the best
means of preventing and counteracting an undue d