r exercise you want to sit without
tension. Or if you walk home from gymnasium you want to walk loosely
and freely, keeping your chest up and a little in advance, and pushing
with the ball of your back foot with a good, rhythmic balance. As this
is the best way to sit and the best way to walk--gymnasium or no
gymnasium--to look out for a well-balanced sitting and a well-balanced
walk directly after vigorous exercise, keeps us in good form for
sitting and walking all the time.

I know of a professor in one of our large colleges who was offered also
a professorship in a woman's college, and he refused to accept because
he said women's minds did not react. When he lectured to girls he found
that, however attentively they might seem to listen, there was no
response. They gave nothing in return.

Of course this is not true of all girls, and of course the gentleman
who refused the chair in the woman's college would agree that it is not
true of all girls, but if those who read the anecdote would, instead of
getting indignant, just look into the matter a little, they would see
how true it is of many girls, and by thinking a little further we can
see that it is not at present the girls' fault. A hundred years ago
girls were not expected to think. I remember an anecdote which a very
intelligent old lady used to tell me about her mother. Once, when she
was a little girl, her mother found some fault with her which the
daughter knew to be unjust, and she answered timidly, "But, Mother, I
think--"

"Abigail," came the sharp reminder, "you've no business to think."

One hundred years ago it was only the very exceptional girls who really
thought. Now we are gradually working toward the place where every girl
will think. And surely it cannot be very long now before the united
minds of a class of college girls will have the habit of reacting so
that any man will feel in his own brain a vigorous result from
lecturing to them.

This fact that a girl's brain does not react is proved in many ways.
Most of the women who come to nerve specialists seem to feel that they
are to sit still and be cured, while the men who come respond and do
their part much more intelligently--the result being that men get out
of "nerves" in half the time and stay out, whereas girls often get out
a little way and slump (literally slump) back again before they can be
helped to respond truly enough to get well and keep themselves well.
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