of
masculine methods and standards. If the specialties in the culture of
women are worth preserving, it is because they have value; many of them,
I am certain, have real value, and others have a current value, so that
we cannot at present dispense with them--if they have value, when we
have a free and well-adjusted labor market, they will command their
price. For bringing about these changes, we must have well-educated,
wise women.

Our women, in matters of dress, are more completely the slaves of
fashion than the women in any other civilized country. This is due to
the necessity they feel for making a good personal impression. Their
family position does comparatively little, either for or against them.
They marry, or get forward in life, chiefly by making themselves
personally agreeable. When we give them other means of influence than
this, when we secure to them industrial and political power, these
personal considerations will diminish in importance, and their minds
will naturally turn away from them.

There are many things awry, many things that need to be improved, but we
must be wise in our methods.

We cannot exactly imitate the English, nor do I believe it is worth
doing. The Malthusian chorus of political economists suggests the notion
that a nation may be over-physical. We want health for ourselves, and
healthy tendencies for our descendants. Beyond this, we want to send our
surplus force to the brain.

MARY E. BEEDY.

83 Ladbroke Road, Notting Hill,
London W.

MENTAL ACTION

AND

PHYSICAL HEALTH.

MENTAL ACTION AND PHYSICAL HEALTH.

None can appreciate the weight attaching to the words of a distinguished
member of an honored profession, as well as the younger members of that
same profession. They know something of the toil needed to achieve a
worthy reputation, and of the talent implied by the capacity for toil.
They know how to discriminate between the careful opinions of mature and
deliberate judgment, and the headlong assertions of rash busy-bodies and
amateurs. They understand, because they feel, the inevitable esoterism
that must persist at the kernel of all democracies, unless these
degenerate into mere rabble and intellectual mob: they are the last,
therefore, to maintain that one person's word is as good as another's;
that common sense is competent to solve all questions; that freedom of
thought means the right of all to think as they please. Knowing, on the
contrary, the