nner. From personal experience I know the evil
results that this ignorance and constant endeavoring to find out
everything has on the mind and bodies of school-girls. If children had the
natural and simple laws of creation carefully explained to them by their
parents, much harm would be prevented, and the conversation would not
always turn on sexual matters. The Bible is often consulted for the
discovery of hidden mysteries.

"'Raves' on teachers are far commoner than between two girls. In this case
the girl makes no secret of her attachment, constantly talking of it and
describing her feelings to any who care to listen and writing long letters
to her friends about the same. In the case of two girls there is more
likely to be a sexual element, great pleasure being taken in close contact
with one another and frequent kissing and hugging. When parted, long
letters are written, often daily; they are full of affectionate
expressions of love, etc., but there is also a frequent reference to the
happiness and desire to do well that their love has inspired them with,
while often very deeply religious feelings appear to be generated and many
good resolutions are made. Their various emotional feelings are described
in every minute detail to each other.

"The duration of 'raves' varies. I have known them to last three or four
years, more often only a few months. Occasionally what began as a 'rave'
will turn, into a sensible firm friendship. I imagine that there is seldom
any actual inversion, and on growing up the 'raves' generally cease. That
the 'ravers' feel and act like a pair of lovers there is no doubt, and the
majority put down these romantic friendships for their own sex as due, in
a great extent, in the case of girls at schools, to being without the
society of the opposite sex. This may be true in some cases, but
personally I think the question open to discussion. These friendships are
often found among girls who have left school and have every liberty, even
among girls who have had numerous flirtations with the opposite sex, who
cannot be accused of inversion, and who have all the feminine and domestic
characteristics.

"In illustration of these points I may bring forward the following case:
A. and B. were two girls at the same college. They belonged to different
cliques, or sets; occupied different bedrooms; never met in their
school-work, and were practically only known to one another by name. One
day they chanced to